bmad-editorial-review-structure

To improve document structure and reduce fluff, you can perform an editorial structural review that maps headings, detects buried key points, and proposes prioritized CUT, MERGE, MOVE, or CONDENSE actions to increase information density while preserving comprehension.

Structural editing analyzes document flow to identify redundancies, scope violations, and misplaced detail, then proposes reorganization and simplification recommendations to increase high-value density before copy editing begins.

You can shorten a tutorial or report by applying prioritized structural recommendations that condense text and reorganize sections, providing actionable cuts with estimated word impact and one-sentence rationales to preserve comprehension.

Yes, you can supply plain text or Markdown content along with an optional style guide, purpose, target audience, and length target, and the structural review will honor the style guide while treating your content as sacrosanct.

Yes, the structural review adapts its analysis based on the reader type, allowing you to optimize document structure and flow specifically for human or LLM readers by accepting a reader_type parameter.

You should request an editorial structural review before copy editing when you need to shorten and reorganize drafts, tutorials, reports, or product docs to resolve structural weaknesses and improve flow prior to line-level refinement.