Hire an AI long-form draft editor

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• The edited draft, next to your untouched original
• Scores for each check at the start and after each round
• A log of every change, with the skill behind it
• A list of the problems left for you, with the page and the question to answer
• A question sheet to send to first readers

How it does the job well

• Clarify the purpose, audience and limits, such as length, format and deadline, first.
• Use the user's materials and voice. Ask for samples when tone matters.
• Be specific and concrete. Cut what does not serve the purpose.
• Say what you are unsure of and where to check it.

Mistakes it avoids

• Editing past the pass line. A draft that passes is done. More rounds start to polish out the writer's voice.
• Fixing a hole by writing a new scene. That is the writer's work.
• Cutting again each round. One 10% cut is the target.
• Treating a score as a verdict on quality. The scores count problems and rule breaks, not whether the piece is good.
• Running this on a draft that has not rested, if you can wait. A fresh draft hides its own holes.
• Generic output that ignores the user's details.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You have a finished draft that has rested and you want it tightened without losing your voice.

• The draft. The latest round's file, next to your untouched original.
• Scores by round. Each check's result at the start and after each round.
• Why it stopped. Whether the draft passed, hit the round cap, reached your turn, or stopped making progress.
• What changed. Every change per round, with the skill that made it and the reason.
• Yours to decide. Each plot hole, out-of-character act or unsupported fact left, with the page and the question to answer.
• Questions for first readers. A question sheet to send to readers, or a note that it waits for your decisions.

How the work is checked

• The original is untouched.
• No plot point, fact, quote or name was changed by you.
• ten-percent-cutter ran at most once.
• Every change names the skill that made it.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Stephen King and William Zinsser would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Set up. Saves your original, asks the kind of piece, and opens the list of lines you said to keep.
• Use readers' notes first. If readers sent notes, it ranks what to fix first from what they said.
• Check without changing anything. For a story, scores the draft on a cold read and on 18 plain rules, and finds what it is really about. For an article, runs a pre-publish check.
• Sort by who owns each problem. Plot holes, wrong facts and out-of-character acts are yours. Length, wording, scenes that explain and weak dialogue are its own.
• Fix and check, up to three rounds. Cuts once to 90%, rebuilds scenes that explain, shows feelings, fixes dialogue, then checks again. Plain words go in last.
• Decide whether to go on. It stops on a pass of 85 or more on both story scores, the round cap, only your decisions left, or a round that gained under 3 points.
• Hand back. Gives you the draft, the scores, the change log, your list and the reader questions.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id long-form-draft-editor only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/long-form-draft-editor/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• The whole draft in one file, and how long it has rested
• The kind of piece, a story or narrative or an article, guide or post
• The brief or word limit, if there is one (optional)
• First readers' notes (optional)
• The facts and sources the piece relies on, if it is an article (advised)

Helpful context (optional)

• First readers' notes
• Your facts and sources, for an article

Tools and access

• Claude Code: It can keep the edit folder, the round files and the kept-on-purpose list between runs.
• Any good chat AI: Sorting and counting notes is text work any strong chat AI does well.
• A shared document: Comments in the draft are easier to tie to places than a loose email.
• Any good chat AI: Reading a long draft and listing problems is text work any strong chat AI does well.
• A pencil and a printout: Read once on paper in one sitting, mark pages, then compare with the report.
• Any good chat AI: Quoting and judging lines is text work.
• Text-to-speech or reading aloud: Hearing the dialogue makes bad talk obvious.
• Any good chat AI: Finding patterns across a draft is text work that a strong chat AI does well.
• A friend who reads: Ask them what the story was about in one sentence, before you show the report.
• Any good chat AI: Counting, cutting in passes and logging are text work for any strong chat AI. Ask it to show its counts.
• A word processor: Check the word count there. A chat AI's count is an estimate.
• Any good chat AI: Rewriting dialogue is text work any strong chat AI does well.
• A friend with a voice: Reading aloud with someone shows stumbles that silent reading misses.
• Any good chat AI: Rewriting a paragraph with fixed moves is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• A notebook: Writing down the exact objects of a real moment gives the skill true detail to use.
• Any good chat AI: Testing lines against four rules is text work any strong chat AI does well.
• Your own voice: Read each failing line aloud. Your ear is the final check.
• Any good chat AI: Editing a draft with a fixed list of moves is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• A read-aloud tool: Hearing the result spoken shows where a line does not sound like you.
• Any good chat AI: Writing a short question sheet is simple text work.
• A shared document: Let readers comment on the draft itself so notes are tied to the place.

Functions and deliverables

• Long-form draft editor: Edit a story, article or guide in rounds. Keep your meaning, record changes and stop when the writer must decide.
  • The edited draft, next to your untouched original
  • Scores for each check at the start and after each round
  • A log of every change, with the skill behind it
  • A list of the problems left for you, with the page and the question to answer
  • A question sheet to send to first readers
• Reader feedback sorter: Sort feedback from several readers into what to fix, what to leave alone and a ranked rewrite list for your next draft.
  • All the notes in one list by place in the draft
  • A count of how many readers raised each point
  • Agreed problems, washes and fact catches, kept apart
  • A ranked rewrite list and questions to ask readers who were vague
• Fresh draft reviewer: Paste a rested draft. Get every page that needs a change, the big holes, and a score.
  • A list of pages that need a change, with the reason
  • Out-of-character acts and big holes, named
  • The flailing passages at the start
  • A list of things that recur, and a score out of 100 with the sum
• Story rules checker: Paste a story. Get it checked against 18 plain-fiction rules, each fault named with its line, and a score.
  • A pass or fail on each rule that applies, with the line quoted
  • A list of surplus words and voice breaks
  • A score out of 100, with how it was worked out
  • A fix for each fail, with plot changes marked
• Story theme and scene reviewer: Share a finished story draft. Find recurring details, compare possible themes and plan scene changes that make the strongest reading clearer.
  • A count of what recurs, by page
  • Three readings of what it is about, with evidence
  • The best-supported reading as a tension
  • Scenes to add or sharpen, and scenes that pull another way
• Pre-publish content checker: Share a draft, brief and source material. Get checks on claims, voice, structure and search details, with fixes and unresolved gaps.
  • A list of problems under six checks: brief, voice, facts, structure, AI sound and search readiness.
  • For each problem, where it is, what is wrong and how to fix it.
  • A list of facts and sources you need to verify.
  • A publish or hold verdict.
  Source: RampStack.
• Draft shortening editor: Paste a long draft and cut 10 percent of its words. You get the shorter draft, a log of every cut and a check that the story still works.
  • The draft at 90% of its length or less
  • A log of every cut by pass, with word counts
  • A list of planted details it kept
  • A story and voice check
• Character motivation scene editor: Rewrite a flat scene so each person wants something and uses words to get it. Paste your dialogue and get a scene rewrite with a read-aloud check.
  • A short table of what each speaker wants, who blocks them and their tactic
  • A rewritten scene
  • A note on what the audience knows that a character does not
  • A read-aloud check
• Show-don't-tell scene rewriter: Show, don't tell: paste a paragraph that names the feeling and get it rewritten in short, plain sentences, with every feeling word cut.
  • The paragraph rewritten in short, plain sentences
  • A list of feeling words cut and what replaced each
  • The one detail it used and where it came from
  • Gaps marked where it needs a fact from you
• Dialogue editor: Share a scene with speaker notes. Review natural speech, distinct voices, hidden explanation and dialogue tags, then get fixes and a checklist score.
  • A table of every line with four marks
  • The lines nobody would say, rewritten
  • A check that each speaker sounds different
  • A score out of 100 with the sum
• Plain English editor: Paste a draft and get it back in plain English, with every cut explained and a read-aloud check. Edit stiff emails, reports and pages.
  • The edited text in plain words
  • A list of every cut or swap, with its reason
  • The point of the piece in one sentence
  • Questions where a fact was missing
• Reader feedback question writer: Share your draft. Identify the right test reader and get questions that uncover where they struggle.
  • Your ideal reader, named in a line
  • Five to eight questions for every reader
  • One question for each part you doubt
  • A short message to send with the draft and the rules for readers
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up
• Stephen King: Plan or revise fiction using Stephen King’s recorded craft advice. Start with a situation, build ordinary characters and set a writing habit.
  • Your problem worked on the way Stephen King would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Stephen King's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• William Zinsser: Edit nonfiction using William Zinsser’s recorded approach. Find the point, order what readers need and cut words that add no meaning.
  • Your problem worked on the way William Zinsser would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in William Zinsser's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You have a finished draft that has rested and you want it tightened without losing your voice.
• You want to know which problems you must fix yourself and which an editor can fix for you.
• Your readers sent notes and you want a ranked list of what to fix first.

Limits to check before starting

• You want to edit an ad, sales page or email: use the Sales copy editor instead.
• Your draft is under about 1,000 words: one quick edit pass in your AI is enough, so skip the rounds.
• You want the agent to fix a plot hole or a wrong fact: that is your call, so decide it yourself or ask a trusted reader.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Start a chat with the agent. In Claude Code, add it as a skill or save it in .claude/agents, then give it the draft file. If your AI cannot save files, paste the latest round and your kept-on-purpose list back in at the start of each round.
• Tell it the kind of piece and how long the draft has rested.
• Read the hand-back. Fix the problems on your list yourself.
• Send the draft to first readers with the question sheet. When their notes come in, run the agent again. It starts with their notes.
• Run it as many times as you like. It keeps a kept-on-purpose list, so it never undoes a choice you made.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/long-form-draft-editor for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.