Scan your writing for AI patterns, anywhere you type

What you get

• Floating scan button appears on every textarea and rich-text editor you focus. One click runs the scan.
• 36 pattern categories: tier-1 AI vocabulary, hollow intensifiers, chatbot artifacts, emotional flatline, cutoff disclaimers, and 31 more. All checked locally.
• Color-coded severity from P0 (critical chatbot leakage) to P3 (stylistic) so you know what to fix first.
• Popup paste-and-scan for quick checks on text you've copied from elsewhere.
• Keyboard shortcut. Ctrl+Shift+A (Cmd+Shift+A on macOS) scans the focused field without clicking.
• Options page with a per-site disable list and a toggle for the floating button.

Free vs. deep audit

Privacy

The extension runs scanning entirely in your browser's JavaScript engine. No text is transmitted, logged, or stored on any server. Your text only leaves your browser when you explicitly click the deep-audit button. When you do, the extension hands the text to the web app via chrome.storage.session plus a same-origin postMessage, so the text never appears in the URL or browser history. A URL-fragment fallback is used only if session storage is unavailable.

Full details: Extension privacy policy.

Install it today

The Chrome Web Store listing is in review. Until then, you can install the extension in about 30 seconds by loading it as an unpacked extension. It's the same zip that will be submitted to the store.

1. Download the extension zipYou'll get a file named avoid-ai-writing-extension.zip. Unzip it (double-click on Windows, or it might already be extracted on macOS Safari). You should end up with a folder named avoid-ai-writing-extension. Move it somewhere you won't delete, like ~/extensions/.
2. Open chrome://extensions in a new tab.
3. Toggle Developer mode on (top-right corner of the page).
4. Click Load unpacked and select the avoid-ai-writing-extension folder. A welcome page opens with a short walkthrough; the scan button will appear the next time you focus any text field.

Heads up: Chrome shows a yellow "Disable developer mode extensions" banner whenever you've got unpacked extensions loaded. That goes away once the extension ships on the Chrome Web Store.

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FAQ

Does it work on Google Docs or Notion?

The scan button appears on standard contenteditable editors, including most rich-text surfaces. Google Docs uses a custom canvas-based editor that doesn't expose text via the DOM in the usual way. For Docs content, use the extension popup's paste-and-scan. Notion works for standard blocks.

Does it cost anything?

The extension itself is free and has no usage limits. The optional Claude-powered deep audit costs a few cents per run and happens on the web app, not in the extension.

Does it send my text anywhere?

No, unless you explicitly click the deep-audit button. Even then, the handoff uses chrome.storage.session plus a same-origin postMessage, so the text never appears in the URL. Browsers never transmitstorage.session entries across the network.

Will it run on banking or authentication pages?

No. The manifest explicitly excludes a list of sensitive origins (major banks, password managers, payment processors, Google authentication) so the extension never touches those sites.