Editor in Chief is an Openclaw Skills editorial agent for correcting prose while preserving the writer’s voice, tone, and intent.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install editor-in-chief
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install editor-in-chief using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is Editor in Chief?
Editor in Chief is a conservative editing skill built for reviewing and refining authorial prose without flattening its character. It improves spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, and flow while protecting the writer’s vocabulary, rhythm, humor, conviction, and point of view.
Openclaw Skills users can use this skill to proofread, copyedit, line edit, or apply approved edits with editorial restraint. Its core value is simple: make the writing easier to hear, not more generic. It reads the whole piece first, distinguishes errors from intentional style, and applies only the smallest necessary change.
Editor in Chief Use Cases
- Proofreading blog posts, essays, newsletters, and long-form drafts before publishing.
- Copyediting prose while preserving the author’s voice, cadence, and rhetorical choices.
- Line editing unclear or tangled sentences without rewriting them into a different style.
- Reviewing Markdown posts with frontmatter, links, headings, and code spans intact.
- Flagging ambiguous facts, names, or technical claims for human confirmation.
- Applying approved editorial changes after a review pass.
- Improving clarity and flow only when the benefit outweighs the loss of authorial character.
How Editor in Chief Works
- Read the entire piece first to understand audience, tone, structure, and stylistic patterns.
- Separate objective errors from intentional writing choices, including humor, fragments, emphasis, and informal cadence.
- Classify issues into required corrections, clarity edits, optional style suggestions, and unresolved queries.
- Determine the requested mode: review only, apply edits, apply approved edits, or review and apply.
- Make conservative changes that preserve meaning, voice, terminology, and factual posture.
- Protect structured content such as Markdown, links, headings, frontmatter, inline code, and code blocks.
- Reread the result for continuity, consistency, and valid formatting.
- Report what changed, what remains uncertain, or why a suggested edit was not applied.
Editor in Chief Setup
- Add the skill to your Openclaw Skills workspace or agent configuration.
- Ensure the agent is instructed to treat the source text as the primary style guide and to preserve authorship.
- Use the skill by asking for one of the supported modes: review only, apply edits, apply approved edits, or review and apply.
- If you are wiring it into an agent workflow, reference the skill name explicitly in the system or task prompt.
# Example: invoke the skill in an Openclaw Skills-supported agent workflow
openclaw skills use editor-in-chief
# Example: request a review-only edit pass
openclaw skills run editor-in-chief --mode review-only --input ./draft.md
# Example: apply conservative editorial changes
openclaw skills run editor-in-chief --mode apply-edits --input ./draft.md
Editor in Chief Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill operates on source prose and preserves existing document structure. Its editorial data model is centered on the following content types:
| Entity | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Source text | The full draft being edited | Treated as the primary style guide |
| Mode | Editing intent | Review only, apply edits, apply approved edits, review and apply |
| Required corrections | Objective errors | Grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, capitalization |
| Clarity edits | Meaning-preserving improvements | Resolve ambiguity, reduce tangled phrasing |
| Optional style suggestions | Non-essential improvements | Only applied when clearly beneficial |
| Queries | Uncertain claims or facts | Used when the text cannot be verified confidently |
| Structured content | Markdown/frontmatter/code elements | Must remain valid and unbroken |
Editorial taxonomy used by the skill:
- Voice preservation: keep tone, vocabulary, cadence, and point of view intact.
- Error correction: fix objective defects without altering meaning.
- Structural protection: preserve headings, links, metadata, inline code, and code blocks.
- Confidence handling: flag uncertain facts instead of silently changing them.
Output is typically a revised draft or a review report with change summaries, depending on mode.
Editor in Chief Advanced Features
- Conservative, voice-preserving edits optimized for authorial prose rather than generic rewriting.
- Mode-aware workflow supports review-only, direct application, approved-only application, and combined review/apply flows.
- Structured-content protection keeps Markdown, metadata, links, and code intact.
- Editorial triage separates required fixes, clarity improvements, optional suggestions, and unresolved factual queries.
- Handles sensitive, personal, devotional, humorous, and conversational writing without neutralizing tone.
- Suitable for high-trust editorial pipelines in Openclaw Skills where human voice matters.
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