editorial-review

# Editorial Review ## Overview Run the workflows that involve people outside the agent: briefing and paying sensitivity and authenticity readers, a real-people and defamation-risk pass, permissions for quoted material, an AI-use disclosure statement, editorial rounds with human editors, and collaboration between co-authors. The skill prepares materials, tracks state in frontmatter, and flags risks. It does not give legal advice, it does not contact anyone, and it never records a permission, review, or disclosure the user has not confirmed. ## Prerequisites A story project with `story.md` in the root and drafted chapters. Git is needed for snapshot tags, `story compare --ref`, and the collaboration workflow; offer `git init` if the project has none. ## When to Use - A book portrays a culture, identity, disability, faith, trade, or experience the author does not share - Fiction features or resembles real, identifiable people or organisations - The manuscript quotes lyrics, poems, epigraphs, or other writers' prose - The user needs an AI-use statement for a retailer, agent, or publisher - Sending the manuscript to a human editor, or taking their edits back - Two or more people write or maintain the same book or shared world - NOT for synthesising reader notes into decisions (use `feedback-triage`; this skill hands notes to it) - NOT for fact-checking real-world details (use `research`; this skill adds the review layer on top) - NOT for the agent's own prose edit (use `li...