What problem does it solve?
Defossil removes conversation-residue text that only exists because the artifact was produced iteratively, helping your README, docs, comments, and descriptions read like a clean one-shot deliverable.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Fossil detection by litmus test: Keeps content a stranger would include after receiving the final spec, and flags anything that’s really explained by prior chat history.
- Targets common fossil types: Transformation labels, scaffolding announcements, defensive reassurance, “now uses X” framing, changelog-in-code sections, TODOs referencing “we discussed”, and similar artifact-narration remnants.
- Rewrite instead of blunt deletion: When removal would destroy real information, it rewrites fossil framing into product truth (without the “as we changed” provenance).
Quick Start
Use /defossil to scrub an artifact (like a README, docstring, code comment, commit message, or PR description) so it no longer looks like it was iterated on in chat.