anti-defensive-writing

anti-defensive-writing is a Writing style & humanising skill for AI agents, published by Kiterlin in the anti-defensive-writing repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates anti-defensive-writing B (81/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Reduce defensive writing in drafts and revisions by removing unnecessary caveats, disclaimers, hedges, apology-like framing, negative self-limiting statements, and over-explanations while preserving necessary scope, accuracy, safety, legal, ethical, and methodological limits. Use when drafting or revising academic writing, papers, essays, abstracts, introductions, contribution statements, discussions, conclusions, technical explanations, grant writing, product writing, policy writing, professional reports, or any text the user wants to be clearer, stronger, more direct, more concise, more confident, less verbose, less caveated, less apologetic, or less defensive.

Grade
B
Quality
81 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
47

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Our review

Architecture
100 / 100
Maturity
Structured: ships references or scripts
Security scan
No issues found
License
MIT
Adoption
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