Editing and Style Enforcement
Quick start
Collect or infer:
- •Draft content to edit
- •Target style guide (house style, AP, Chicago, or custom)
- •Audience and formality level
- •Publication channel constraints
Then produce output using TEMPLATES.md. Validate with RUBRIC.md.
Workflow
- •Identify the governing style guide and any documented deviations.
- •Read the full draft to understand intent and structure before making changes.
- •Apply structural edits first: heading consistency, paragraph breaks, logical flow.
- •Apply line edits: clarity, concision, voice alignment.
- •Apply copy edits: grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization per style guide.
- •Flag ambiguous or factually uncertain statements for author review.
- •Document all substantive changes with brief rationale.
- •Run the rubric check. Revise until it passes.
Degrees of freedom
- •Low freedom: Style guide rules, grammar conventions, punctuation standards
- •Medium freedom: Sentence restructuring for clarity, word choice within voice guidelines
- •High freedom: Flagging content gaps, suggesting structural reorganization
Default: Apply all edits silently unless they change meaning. Flag meaning-altering suggestions as comments.
References
- •Templates: TEMPLATES.md
- •Rubric: RUBRIC.md
- •Examples: EXAMPLES.md
- •Editorial heuristics: reference/editing-heuristics.md
- •Common style conflicts: reference/style-conflicts.md