# Grizzly Review

> Comprehensive quality review of one or more chapters. Use when the user asks for a full review, quality check, violation scan, or pre-publication pass. Runs five passes with severity-tiered findings. For "why is this boring" use grizzly-audit instead.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-harishdvs-grizzly-grizzly-review`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [HarishDvs](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/harishdvs)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [HarishDvs](https://github.com/HarishDvs)
- **Source:** https://github.com/HarishDvs/Grizzly/tree/main/skills/grizzly-review

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-harishdvs-grizzly-grizzly-review
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Grizzly Review — The Five-Pass Review

A structured review with severity-tiered findings, modeled on code-review culture:
honest, specific, no praise padding. Scope is whatever the author names (a chapter,
a range, the manuscript).

## The five passes

Run in this order; report in this order. Where the harness supports parallel
sub-agents, passes 1-4 can fan out (one agent per pass) and pass 5 synthesizes;
otherwise run sequentially.

1. **Continuity** (against the codex): events, facts, injuries, possessions, names,
   timeline. Every finding cites both the chapter line and the card fact it
   contradicts. Also: threads this chapter was supposed to advance per the arc
   card, and didn't.
2. **Pacing** (against NOVEL.md format and any genre pack): scene lengths, where
   the chapter sags, payoff cadence, hook position. Serial and trad chapters obey
   different physics; use the declared format.
3. **Voice drift** (against VOICE.md): passages that don't sound like the anchor
   lines. Quote the off-voice line, name what drifted (rhythm, register, narrator
   distance). This pass exists because long projects drift slowly and the author
   can't hear it from inside.
4. **Hygiene** (against decks/blacklist.md + decks/register-tense.md + STANDARDS.md):
   tells, grammatical-register and tense slips, and standards violations, each with
   line reference. Counts alone are useless; every instance gets a location. A
   register slip (trailerese maxim, present-tense leak in past narration) is severity
   minor unless sustained across the chapter, then major.
5. **Delivery** (against decks/delivery-pass.md): the landing of each scene, named
   or found missing. The benchmark comparison where a beat underperforms.

## Severity tiers

- **blocker** — breaks the book: continuity contradiction, a scene that defeats an
  established plot point, a preserve-line altered.
- **major** — hurts the chapter: buried landing, dead hook in a serial, sustained
  voice drift, a sagging middle.
- **minor** — hurts the line: individual tells, standards violations.
- **nit** — taste, flagged only if cheap to fix. Say "nit" so the author can skip.

## Report format

Findings grouped by severity, then by position. Each: location, what, why it
matters, and (for minor/nit) the one-line proposed fix. Blockers and majors get
no inline fixes; they get a recommendation and a routing (grizzly-edit for lines,
grizzly-plan for structure).

End with: the verdict in two sentences, the three highest-leverage actions, and
what was checked and found clean (one line; so silence isn't ambiguous).

## Rules

- Never start fixing during a review. Review, report, stop.
- If the author asks for a review of their own favorite chapter, review it exactly
  as hard. Calibrated honesty is the product.
- A finding you cannot locate precisely is not a finding; drop it or go verify.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [HarishDvs](https://github.com/HarishDvs)
- **Source:** [HarishDvs/Grizzly](https://github.com/HarishDvs/Grizzly)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-harishdvs-grizzly-grizzly-review
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/harishdvs
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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