Prose
Prose skills
Skills are markdown playbooks that tell Prose how to approach a task — a repeatable editorial workflow you invoke by name. Pinery ships nine; you can create your own (or have Prose create them for you).
Run a skill
Type / in the Prose composer and an autocomplete popup lists every installed skill. Keep typing to filter, pick one, and the accepted /skill-name is highlighted in the composer. Add your request after it:
/line-edit chapter 3, keep the long sentences where they're deliberate
You can also just ask in plain language ("tighten this section") — Prose picks the matching skill itself.
Bundled skills
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
/beta-reader | React like a first reader: impressions, confusion, pacing — no rewriting. |
/brainstorm | Generate and pressure-test ideas, angles, and what-ifs for the story. |
/developmental-edit | Big-picture structure, stakes, and character-arc analysis of the manuscript. |
/drafting-partner | Co-draft scenes from beats, notes, or an outline — in the book's voice. |
/line-edit | Sentence-level rhythm, clarity, and word-choice pass. |
/market-analysis | Comps, genre conventions, and positioning for the current book. |
/tighten-prose | Condense prose while preserving your meaning and voice. |
/continue-chapter | Continue a chapter using adjacent context, voice, and project memory. |
/create-skill | Turn a workflow you want to repeat into a new reusable skill. |
Create your own
Run /create-skill and describe the workflow you want to repeat — Prose interviews you, drafts the playbook, and saves it as a new skill you can invoke by name. This is the way to add a skill: you don't hand-place files, and Prose manages the skill for you.
Once created, you can list, view, edit, or remove your skills right from the chat — just ask ("show my skills", "tweak the historical-accuracy skill"). Each skill is a plain-Markdown playbook (similar in spirit to Cursor/Claude agent skills), so refining one is a conversation, not a file hunt.
Example: ask /create-skill for a historical-accuracy skill that "flags anachronisms in 1920s dialogue and never changes facts without asking."
Skills are instructions only — Prose still uses its normal tools (write, proofread, search) to carry out the work, and everything arrives as a reviewable draft or diff.