Check a draft before you publish it

The last minute before you hit Publish is when the small things show up. A title that will be cut off in search results. A post filed only under the default category. A featured image with no alt text, or a link that goes to a draft preview. None of it is hard to fix, but you have to notice it first.

This prompt reads one draft and notices for you. It reports and recommends. It does not touch the post.

Check draft [post ID 482] before I publish it. Read only: do not edit it, do not
publish it, and do not change anything else.

Read the post, using the raw block markup for its content. If it is a page,
read it as a page. Then report on each of these, as pass, or fix with the exact
text involved:

1. Status: is it still a draft or pending, or already live?
2. Title: its length in characters. Flag it if it is empty, or if it is likely
   to be cut off in search results (roughly over 60 characters).
3. Categories: is it in at least one, and is it filed only under the default
   category?
4. Featured image: is one set, and does it have alt text?
5. Headings: any skipped levels (an H2 followed by an H4), any empty heading,
   any H1 inside the body.
6. Links: list every link. Flag empty links, bare # links, plain http links,
   and links to this site's own preview or draft URLs. You cannot open URLs, so
   do not say any link works.
7. Images in the content with no alt text.
8. Leftovers: lorem ipsum, TODO, XXX, or notes in square brackets.
9. Length: a rough word count.

End with a verdict: ready, ready after small fixes, or not ready. List the
fixes in the order I should do them.

Why this is safe to run

The abilities behind this prompt read a single post or page by ID. They return the title, status, categories, featured image and content, and the prompt tells the agent to change none of it. Publishing is a separate ability with its own capability gate, and nothing in this prompt calls it.

Two honest limits. The checks on links and headings come from reading the markup, so they catch structural problems and miss everything that needs a live request. And the excerpt is left out on purpose, because the read cannot say whether one was written. Treat the verdict as a second pair of eyes, not as sign-off.

Already connected? Skip the paste. Ask your agent for the “check a draft before you publish it” recipe and give it the post ID, and it runs the same reads on your own site.