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proselint: linter for English prose, README overview

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# proselint: linter for English prose, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-08T00:00:45.260Z
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The README presents proselint as a prose linter that applies published writing advice automatically.

Source: https://github.com/amperser/proselint

What it supplies: The README presents proselint as a prose linter that applies published writing advice automatically.

Useful for: - Lint drafts and documentation for style problems before publishing.
- Run it in a pre-commit hook or CI.

First action: - Install with pip install proselint or a distro package.
- Run proselint check on a text or Markdown file.

Prerequisites and limits: The README text read gives no Python version requirement; the pre-commit example pins v0.16.0.

- Some editor plugins are archived or unmaintained.
- It checks English prose only.

Source-documented: BSD licence.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on intro, installation, usage, plugin list and licence README text; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.

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