proselint
reference corpus · status live · domain WRITE (Writing and copy) · lane A · refresh pinned · tags GLOBAL · WRITING · PROSE · LINTER · STYLE
What an agent uses it for
an agent reviewing prose queries this for sourced style checks: redundancy, jargon, hedging, misused phrases, each with a citation
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xerj-org/xerj/corpus-hub/tools/xerj-code/hub/proselint.jsonxerj corpus add --from ./proselint.jsonxerj corpus index proselint then xerj code proselint "your question"Needs the xerj CLI and a local node running; the copy prompt covers both, checks each step, and shows how to stop only the node you started. No shell: the MCP tool xerj_code_search with corpus: "proselint", once the corpus is indexed on the node.
Sources and pins
| source | pin | licence | size | review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| proselint | dbed789caae6 | BSD-3-Clause | 2.7 MB / 527 files | BSD-3-Clause verified (LICENSE). |
2.7 MB across 527 files. Added 2026-10-13.
Rights
BSD-3-Clause. Redistribution permitted with attribution per the licence review. The review block records a human opening each licence file at the pin. Detector output is a hint, never the verdict.
Retrieval spot-check (G7)
Not yet spot-checked. Queries are pre-registered in the registry before grading.