APODICTIC Development Editor.
A development editor for fiction and argument-shaped nonfiction — reads what you wrote, diagnoses structure, never rewrites unless you ask. For nonfiction, the Argument Engine infers your claim, audience, and burden, then finds missing warrants, scope drift, and unmet objections in op-eds, policy briefs, testimony, academic arguments, legal briefs, and regulatory comments, with Dialectical Clarity, Red Team, Persuasion, Evidence, Field Reconnaissance, and Citation
Skills 11 in the Claude listing
Argument audits Dialectical clarity, argument red team, persuasion, evidence provenance, adversarial evidence review, and assuring/guarding/discounting move analysis. Core editor AI developmental editing framework for fiction, narrative nonfiction, and argument-shaped nonfiction; owns the Nonfiction Argument Engine. Genre reader audits Genre and tag craft audits, shelf positioning, reception risk, reader-persona divergence, and descriptive content advisories. Narrative craft audits Focused manuscript audits of stakes, decisions, scene turns, character, emotion, interiority, literary craft, compression, and series structure. Nonfiction argument engine Argument-shaped nonfiction development engine for op-ed, policy brief, testimony, academic argument, open letter, white paper, advocacy argument, legal brief, regulatory comment, expert affidavit, and Plot architecture Plot structure diagnosis, selection, and coaching for fiction manuscripts. Pre writing pathway Pre-writing pathway for writers without a manuscript. Prose measurements AI-prose calibration, narrative/argument decision signals, idiolect preservation, punctuation cadence, POV voice profiles, and experimental position-pair measurements. Research verification Requested internet research for citation verification, factual checking, field reconnaissance, comps, genre currency, and representation context. Revision coach Post-diagnostic revision coaching for fiction, narrative nonfiction, and persuasive / argument-shaped nonfiction. Specialized audits Discover APODICTIC's focused manuscript audits and research modes, list the available audits, or route an unclear audit request to its owning skill. 