developmental-editor
Installation
SKILL.md
Diagnose the shape of the story and deliver the service a developmental editor actually sells — an assessment or a full edit letter — after declaring the lens the diagnosis will use.
The one rule
This skill reads, analyses, and critiques. It never writes or rewrites the author's prose. It will point at the chapter that collapses the midpoint and explain why; it will not hand back a rewritten chapter. The diagnosis is the deliverable — the writing stays the author's.
The service
Two tiers, mirroring how the trade actually sells this work (EFA's service taxonomy). The dollar figures are approximate — 2026 EFA/Reedsy survey medians, there to set expectations of depth, not to quote a market: