Mark removable words and choose the edits yourself
At a glance
Simon Willison used a Claude artifact to mark potentially unnecessary words, then accepted selected cuts in his own draft. This workflow is listed under Writing, Editing, Office Work.
- Agents / tools
- Claude, Claude Artifacts
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What they did
1) Have a Claude account with access to AI-powered artifacts and a draft you want to tighten. 2) Ask Claude to build an editing artifact that accepts pasted text, uses Claude to identify words that could be removed, and displays those candidates with strikethrough. This describes the reported app's behavior; the original build prompt was not supplied. 3) Open the artifact inside Claude while signed in and paste your draft. Read the marked text alongside the original wording. 4) Decide which proposed cuts preserve your meaning, apply only those to your document, and retain the wording where a suggestion is unsuitable.
How it went
Willison said he used it on a document and accepted about a third of its suggestions.
Worth knowing
Calls run against the user's Claude account. Another commenter reported difficulty running the shared artifact even while signed in.
