The draft-reviewer as Quality Gate
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The draft-reviewer as Quality Gate
VOICE.md constrains what the newsletter-writer agent produces. The draft-reviewer is the gate that catches what slips through.
The draft-reviewer agent runs after every draft. It’s a different agent from the writer — the same context that produced the draft will rubber-stamp its own problems, so the review needs to be a separate step. The reviewer reads VOICE.md, reads the draft, and applies fixes directly to the file. It doesn’t produce a list of suggestions for you to implement. It edits.
What it fixes:
Tier 1 slop. Phrases that are immediate credibility killers in AI-assisted writing. These get replaced without question.
Staccato fragments. Three or more short declarative sentences in a row is a pattern AI produces constantly and humans rarely do. The reviewer identifies these clusters and reconstructs them.
Weak openings. The first sentence of a newsletter is the most important one. If it’s hedging or generic, readers stop. The reviewer flags openings that fail this test and rewrites them.
Voice mismatches. Paragraphs that pass the slop test but don’t sound like you. The reviewer compares against the voice examples in VOICE.md and flags the specific gap.
The reviewer reports what it changed, with before/after for each edit. You’re not flying blind — you can see exactly what was adjusted and disagree if the edit was wrong.