Anti Defensive Writing
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.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add anti-defensive-writing npx -- -y @trustedskills/anti-defensive-writing
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"anti-defensive-writing": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/anti-defensive-writing"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
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.
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Details
- Version
- v1.0.0
- License
- MIT
- Author
- Kiterlin
- Installs
- 0
- Updated
- Sep 10, 2026
- Published
- Jun 23, 2026
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