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Cold read

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Plain English: Reading a manuscript with fresh eyes and no context — no notes, no intentions — to judge how it actually lands for a stranger. The most honest critique.

In this project: A brutal editorial agent given no canon/prompts, so it judges the prose cold at the sentence layer.

See: .claude/skills/de-llm-loop/SKILL.md · ./run.sh cold-read

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