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WritingLint – a prose linter with rules over a dependency graph

WritingLint – a prose linter with rules over a dependency graph

by NikhilVerma·Jul 7, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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Dependency graph parsing catches structural patterns that regex and POS taggers miss.

Strengths
  • •Dependency graph parsing catches structural patterns regex and POS taggers miss
  • •145MB parser runs entirely client-side in browser with no server dependency
  • •AI writing detection via syntactic structure rather than perplexity scores
Weaknesses
  • •Grammarly and ProWritingAid dominate the prose linter market already
  • •145MB initial download is a barrier for casual users on slow connections
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Writers, editors, content creators concerned about AI detection

Similar To

Grammarly · ProWritingAid · Hemingway Editor

Post Description

https://writinglint.nikhilv.workers.dev/

Most text linters rely on simple POS tagging or regex, I've been working on this tool that allows one to use the dependency graph of a sentence and then allow you to run rules over it.

It's not as fast but it allows for pretty sophisticated rule writing since you can refer to the relation between words.

I've made a demo where I did an "AI text lint" to highlight common AI kind of text.

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