Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing

Codex skill for removing defensive writing and strengthening prose.

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Anti-Defensive Writing is a Codex skill specification for revising academic and technical prose by removing unnecessary apologies, disclaimers, and excessive hedging while retaining evidence-based limits. It helps researchers and professionals make claims clearer without changing their methodological scope or ethical and legal boundaries. The catalogue entry is the project's own agent workflow for diagnosing and rewriting defensive language.

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Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing

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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…

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