Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing
An agent skill for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code that rewrites academic and technical prose to remove defensive writing and hedging.
Anti-Defensive Writing is distributed as a SKILL.md specification that loads into Codex and Claude Code agents. When active, it instructs the agent to strip premature apologies, disclaimers, and layered hedges from scholarly and technical text while preserving statements of empirical scope and methodological boundaries. The repository includes core principles, a rewrite pipeline, comparative examples, and quickstart instructions for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Frequently asked
- What is Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing?
- An agent skill for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code that rewrites academic and technical prose to remove defensive writing and hedging.
- Is anti-defensive-writing open source?
- Yes — Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing is open source, released under the MIT license.
- What language is anti-defensive-writing written in?
- Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing is primarily written in PowerShell.
- How popular is anti-defensive-writing?
- Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing has 1.1k stars on GitHub.
- Where can I find anti-defensive-writing?
- Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing is on GitHub at https://github.com/Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing.