# Correction Notice

> Correct something published, in public, and record how it got through.

- Skill: `tinyhumansai/correction-notice` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tinyhumansai/correction-notice`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tinyhumansai/correction-notice/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: tinyhumansai (https://skillmd.com/u/tinyhumansai)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tinyhumansai/correction-notice

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# Correction Notice

Errors happen. The failure this exists to prevent is the quiet edit: a published
claim changed without a note, which is indistinguishable from never having made
it and which the reader who saw the original will notice.

## When to use

- An error in something published is reported or discovered.
- A story's meaning has changed since it ran.

## Steps

1. **Open the `corrections` row before deciding what to do.** Recording it
   first is what stops the decision being made by whoever finds it least
   convenient.
2. **Establish whether it is actually wrong.** `unfounded` is a legitimate close
   and needs the reasoning; a complaint is not proof.
3. **Classify by whether it changes the meaning.** A wrong middle initial and a
   wrong allegation are not the same class and do not get the same treatment.
4. **Correct in public.** A correction note on the piece, an update, or a
   retraction — never a silent edit, and never only on social.
5. **Tell whoever raised it,** and anyone named adversely by the error.
6. **Record `how` it got through** — single source, misread document,
   transcription. This is the field that changes practice; everything else only
   records failure.

## Output

A published correction proportionate to the error, the row closed with `how`,
and — where the same cause has appeared before — a note to the operator, because
that is a standards question rather than a story one.