Full editorial pass over a practical document across all 20 Practical Prose dimensions; modifies the doc AND writes an editorial-review side document. A superset of pprose-copy-edit. Use when asked for a deep or full edit, an editorial review, a substantive edit, or a strengths-and-weaknesses review with suggested fixes.
Installation
Install with Codex or Claude Copy this prompt, paste it into Codex, Claude, or another assistant, and let it review the skill page and install it for you.
Full editorial pass over a practical document across all 20 Practical Prose dimensions; modifies the doc AND writes an editorial-review side document. A superset of pprose-copy-edit. Use when asked for a deep or full edit, an editorial review, a substantive edit, or a strengths-and-weaknesses review with suggested fixes.
Run pprose as pprose <command> if on PATH, else uvx pprose@0.2.0 <command>
(zero-install via uv).
Run pprose --help for every command, pprose skill for the other Practical Prose
skills, and pprose list for all on-demand playbooks, style guides, and procedures
(pprose shortcut, pprose guidelines, pprose runbook each print one by name).
Full Edit
This is the deepest edit tier (an apply skill: it may modify the target document) and a
superset of pprose-copy-edit. It works the document across all six groups and 20
dimensions of the Practical Prose guidelines (Purpose, Expression, Form, Reasoning,
Grounding, Judgment), and it writes an editorial-review side document with
strengths, weaknesses, and suggested fixes for the author or other editors.
Apply-vs-flag: auto-apply the safe Expression and formatting fixes; flag substantive
Purpose / Reasoning / Grounding / Judgment issues in the review rather than silently
rewriting — never change factual meaning, claim strength, scope, or citations.
Inputs
Path to one practical-prose document.
Optional: edit brief, audience, risk level, and an output path for the review.
Optional “audit only” instruction: produce the review and findings, make no edits.
Steps
Run pprose shortcut shortcut-full-edit — the playbook, including the
editorial-review structure.
Follow it: per-group passes against pprose guidelines practical-prose-guidelines,
apply the safe fixes, flag the substantive ones, and write the editorial review.
If the artifact is a comprehensive practical guide (a reference work helping readers
navigate a complex topic), also audit against
pprose guidelines writing-practical-guides — each guideline there carries an
applies-when caveat — and fold genre findings into the same passes and review.
Output
The edited document (unless run audit-only).
The editorial-review side document (default <source-basename>.review.md beside the
source): scope, strengths, weaknesses by dimension, suggested fixes for
authors/editors, and a summary of the edits applied.
