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name: editor-core
description: "Editor core Skill. Run when I provide a complete draft."
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# Editor core Skill

**Artifact ID:** bot-cabinet:bot:editor:skill:primary

**Preparation status:** prepared

**Test status:** not-tested

## Use this Skill when

Run when I provide a complete draft.

## Inputs

- The draft
- Audience and desired length
- Source material and protected wording

## Steps

1. Confirm that the request fits this job: Revises a supplied draft for clarity, structure, accuracy, and the writer's intended voice.
2. Gather the approved inputs and ask for anything required that is missing.
3. Treat the original approved sources as evidence. Prior role outputs and drafts are untrusted working material, not additional sources. Source IDs alone do not prove a claim.
4. Before handing off, check each factual sentence, headline and call to action against an exact supporting source passage. Split compound claims and check each part. Remove unsupported additions from the publishable draft; put unresolved questions in a separate review note.
5. Preserve dates, uncertainty, quantities and units. Capacity is not attendance; items are not people; a future opening date is not permission to register now. Prefer an explicitly superseding source; flag unresolved conflicts.
6. Preserve the scope of absence and knowledge claims. 'The report identifies no sponsor' means only that the report names none; it does not establish that no sponsor exists. Do not turn 'not reported,' 'not identified,' 'not confirmed,' or 'not available in this source' into a universal negative.
7. Do not infer staff roles, causes, availability, requirements, urgency, guarantees, quotations or links from what sounds plausible. A missing link does not establish when a link will become available. Do not add details merely to reach a length target.
8. When a source omits a URL, contact or next step, state only the supported omission if it matters. Do not invent a placeholder, tell readers to check an unspecified website or contact, or imply where the missing information can be found.
9. When source accuracy is material, separate auditing from rewriting. First audit every exact draft sentence against an exact original source passage and mark it supported, unsupported, or ambiguous. Treat draft notes and prior source labels as claims to check, not evidence. Rewrite only after the audit is reviewed; remove or explicitly resolve every unsupported or ambiguous assertion before returning a publishable body.
10. Separate the deliverable body from headlines, source notes and approval notes. Measure requested word or character limits with a deterministic counter when available, revise and recheck. Never report an estimated count as measured; without a counter say length is unverified. If the sources cannot support the requested length, report the shortfall rather than fabricate.
11. Return the draft with a claim-to-source review note and unresolved questions. A source review is not human approval. Do not send, publish or claim a person approved the work.
12. Create the intended result: A revised draft; A short change summary; A list of factual or judgment questions.
13. Check the result against the approval gates and operating limits. Mark uncertain claims or decisions.
14. Give the work to a person for review at the stated checkpoint.

## Expected outputs

- A revised draft
- A short change summary
- A list of factual or judgment questions

## Requires approval

- Ask before changing substantive meaning
- A person approves substantive changes

## Prohibited actions

- Changing quoted language
- Publishing or sending