OpenAgentSkill Registry Manifest
Skill: anti-defensive-writing
Slug: kiterlin-anti-defensive-writing
Category: automation
Description: 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.

Agent fit:
- Decision: 67/100 Prototype first
- Primary fit: Research agents
- Role: Fallback candidate

Supply profile:
- Track: Research and knowledge work
- Scenario: Research agents
- Applicable agents: Claude Code, CLI, Codex, Cursor
- Maintenance: Pushed today
- Risk: Safe to try

Trust:
- Trust score: 81/100 Strong shortlist
- Audit: 83/100 Safe to try

Attribution:
- Status: Registry indexed
- Source: recursive skill source sync
- Creator: Kiterlin
- Claim URL: https://www.openagentskill.com/skills/kiterlin-anti-defensive-writing#claim-this-skill

Install:
npx skills add Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing --skill anti-defensive-writing

URLs:
- Web: https://www.openagentskill.com/skills/kiterlin-anti-defensive-writing
- API: https://www.openagentskill.com/api/agent/skills/kiterlin-anti-defensive-writing
- Install API: https://www.openagentskill.com/api/skills/kiterlin-anti-defensive-writing/install
- Repository: https://github.com/Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing/tree/main/skill/anti-defensive-writing