| name | pprose-review |
| description | Review one practical document and report tiered editorial feedback — what a common edit, a copy edit, and a full substantive pass would each change — without modifying the document and without numeric scores. Read-only. Use when asked to review, critique, give feedback, or get an edit plan, and you do not want edits applied, a scored eval, or a version comparison. |
Run pprose as pprose <command> if on PATH, else uvx pprose@0.1.0 <command>
(zero-install via uv).
Run pprose --help for every command, pprose skill --list for the other Practical
Prose skills, and pprose shortcut --list / pprose guidelines --list /
pprose runbook --list for on-demand playbooks, style guides, and procedures.
Review
This is a read-only skill: it never modifies the target document and assigns no
scores. It produces a single tiered editorial review side document that sorts every
finding into three layers of edit depth:
- Tier 1 — Common edit: formatting and structure fixes a
pprose-common-edit pass
would apply (the common documentation substrate).
- Tier 2 — Copy edit: Expression and Form fixes (E1-E3, F1-F3) a
pprose-copy-edit
pass would apply — language and formatting, no change of meaning.
- Tier 3 — Full feedback: the substantive Purpose, Reasoning, Grounding, and
Judgment issues that need author judgment — flagged, never silently rewritten.
Use it when the user wants feedback or an edit plan without touching the document.
For other intents, route elsewhere: to actually apply the edits use pprose-copy-edit
(Tiers 1-2) or pprose-full-edit (all tiers); for a scored 1-5 rubric use
pprose-eval; to compare document versions use pprose-compare.
Inputs
- Path to one Markdown document.
- Optional: audience, risk level, and a review brief.
- Optional output path for the review (default
<source-basename>.review.md).
Steps
- Run
pprose shortcut shortcut-review and follow it: run the audit passes, change
nothing, and sort each finding into Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3.
- Write the tiered review to the output path; make no edits to the source and assign no
scores.
Output
Return the review path, the count of findings per tier, and the recommended next action
(run pprose-copy-edit to apply Tiers 1-2 automatically; Tier 3 is for author
judgment).