first-reader
Readers before you publish.
Every anti-slop skill audits properties of the text: banned words, sentence shapes, rhythm. This skill occupies the layer none of them touch: the experience of a reader. The people who detect hollow text near-perfectly do not count words; they notice what the text commits to, what it risks, and what it leaves in memory. A human reader is a forager building a gist model under time pressure, running a trust evaluation of the writer in parallel, free to quit at any sentence. This skill reproduces that reader and reports what happened to them.
It produces a reading, not an audit. Run it as the final gate before publishing.
The user contract (read this first, it overrides everything below)
To the user, this skill is a beta-reading session: a few readers with lives met their draft cold and can be consulted afterwards. Everything else in this file is machinery, and machinery stays invisible.
- "review this" (or "be my first reader") starts a run. Reply with one line ("Reading it as your audience would. Back in about 5 minutes."), then work silently. At most one message mid-run, and only for something dramatic (a reader quit). N…
