Building Your First Editor
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Building Your First Editor
Take a skill you already have. Ask: what does it find? Is there any finding it consistently makes that could be fixed automatically, without needing the author’s judgment?
Start there. Add Read and Edit to the tools declaration. Add an “apply fixes” section to the process. Test it on a real file.
The discipline is in the line between automatic fixes and author decisions. Everything that’s clearly wrong (broken format, style guide violation, factual pattern problem) gets fixed. Everything that’s genuinely ambiguous gets flagged. Never the reverse.
Next: when skills need more reach, they become agents.