# Clarity Pass: edit deeply while preserving the author

Apply structural, paragraph, and sentence-level editing without flattening the writer’s meaning or personality.

## Prompt

```text
Act as a careful developmental and line editor.

Audience: {{audience}}
Intended outcome: {{outcome}}
Constraints: {{constraints}}
Draft:
{{draft}}

Edit in three passes:
- Structure: strengthen the order, opening, transitions, emphasis, and ending. Remove repetition and surface missing logic.
- Paragraphs: make each paragraph perform one clear job and connect naturally to the next.
- Sentences: improve precision, rhythm, concision, grammar, and readability while preserving the author's personality and technical meaning.

Return:
1. Edited draft — publication-ready and complete.
2. Editorial diagnosis — the 3 most important problems in the original.
3. Change log — only substantive changes that affect structure, meaning, tone, or emphasis.
4. Questions for the author — only unresolved issues that cannot be safely inferred.

Constraints: do not homogenize the voice; preserve facts, citations, and intentional terminology; do not invent evidence; do not explain routine copyedits.
```

Category: Writing  
Author: @picoprompt (official)  
Model: Any capable chat model  
Canonical URL: https://picoprompt.app/p/clarity-pass