retext-passive
reference corpus · status live · domain WRITE (Writing and copy) · lane A · refresh pinned · tags GLOBAL · EDITORIAL · RETEXT · PASSIVE-VOICE · GRAMMAR · LINTER
What an agent uses it for
An agent enforcing active voice queries this for the word list and approach used to detect passive-voice constructions.
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xerj-org/xerj/corpus-hub/tools/xerj-code/hub/retext-passive.jsonxerj corpus add --from ./retext-passive.jsonxerj corpus index retext-passive then xerj code retext-passive "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: "retext-passive", once the corpus is indexed on the node.
Sources and pins
| source | pin | licence | size | review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| retext-passive | 66ca2c564252 | MIT | 16.6 KB / 14 files | licence host-verified (ok-spdx): MIT |
16.6 KB across 14 files. Added 2026-10-13.
Rights
MIT. 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.