Developmental Editing

Developmental Editing is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by revfactory in harness-100.

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Install Developmental Editing

Copy Developmental Editing into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/revfactory/harness-100/tree/main/en/11-book-publishing/.claude/skills/developmental-editing ~/.claude/skills/developmental-editing

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/revfactory/harness-100.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: en/11-book-publishing/.claude/skills/developmental-editing/skill.md in revfactory/harness-100
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/developmental-editing
Collection: One of 51 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Developmental Editing does

Developmental Editing analyzes manuscript structure, narrative arc, character development, pacing, and genre fit. Use it for structural editing, manuscript feedback, and diagnosing how a book reads as a whole.

Developmental Editing is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Developmental Editing — Developmental Editing Methodology

Specialized editing knowledge used by the manuscript-editor agent when structurally editing manuscripts.

Why Developmental Editing

Proofreading (spelling/grammar) is only 10% of editing. Developmental editing diagnoses and improves the manuscript's structure, narrative, characters, and pacing — the core work that determines a book's quality.

Manuscript Structure Diagnostics: SPINE Check

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Developmental Editing

What else does revfactory publish alongside Developmental Editing?
Developmental Editing is one of 51 skills that DirSkills catalogs from revfactory/harness-100, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ad Copywriting Formulas, Advertising Campaign and Argumentation Framework. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Developmental Editing does, and is maintained by revfactory in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the revfactory/harness-100 page.
How does Developmental Editing compare to other Writing skills?
Developmental Editing ranks #379 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Developmental Editing against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.