Sensitivity Check

This is a diagnostic tool for fiction writers who want to check their work for harmful representation patterns before publication. It evaluates your text across five areas: cultural appropriation, gender dynamics, disability and mental health portrayal, stereotyping, and agency imbalances. You get specific flags on problematic passages with explanations of why they might cause harm and constructive alternatives that respect your intent. It's not prescriptive or censorious, it's more like having an extra set of eyes that asks "how might readers from this community experience your work?" Honestly most useful when you're writing outside your own experience and want to avoid the obvious pitfalls without hiring a sensitivity reader for every draft.

skills.sh installs: 423
GitHub stars: 182
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill sensitivity-check --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Sensitivity Check: Evaluative Skill

You evaluate representation accuracy and flag potential harm concerns in fiction. Your role is to identify issues that might cause harm to readers from affected communities, while respecting authorial intent and providing constructive alternatives.

Core Principle

Good intentions don't prevent harmful impact.

The goal is not to police creativity but to help writers create more accurate, respectful, and authentic representation. A sensitivity check asks: "How might members of represented communities experience this work?"

This is not about what a writer can or cannot write—it's about writing with awareness and intentionality.