alex

Spec sheet

Purpose

Alex helps find gender favouring, polarising, race related, religion inconsiderate, and other unequal phrasing.Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

Intended users

The site describes checking your own or someone else’s writing, and the README recommends running Alex with tests in a project workflow.Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

API

The README documents API exports for Markdown, MDX, HTML, and text.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integrations

The official site lists integrations for Atom, Sublime, Gulp, Slack, Ember, Probot, Vim, and Contentful.Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

Support

The official site welcomes suggestions, feature requests, and issues through GitHub Issues, and provides an email address for contacting the maker.Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

License

The GitHub repository identifies the project as open source and links to its MIT license.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Additional integrations

The README also lists integrations for GitHub Actions, browser extensions, Figma, and VS Code.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Assumptions

alex says it assumes good intent and ignores words meant literally.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Checks

Examples of checks include gendered work titles and proverbs, ableist language, condescending language, intolerant phrasing, and profanities.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

CLI

The site shows alex running from the command line and gives `npm install alex --global` as an installation command.Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

Command line

The official site documents installing Alex globally with npm and running it on a file from the command line.Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

Compatibility

The README says the package is ESM only and requires Node 14 or later.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Configuration

Users can configure Alex with .alexrc files or a package.json field, and can allow or deny specific rules.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Input formats

The project README says Alex checks plain text, HTML, MDX, and Markdown.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

License and contributions

The site describes alex as open source software and welcomes community requests and contributions.Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

Limitations

The README says Alex is not very smart and that automated tools cannot replace studying inclusive communication or listening to lived experiences.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

More integrations

The README also lists GitHub Actions, a browser extension, Figma, and VSCode integrations.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Programmatic API

The README documents API exports for checking Markdown, MDX, HTML, and plain text.Read 8 Oct 2026 · github.com

Suggestions

When it flags wording, Alex can suggest alternatives, such as replacing “his” with “their.”Read 8 Oct 2026 · alexjs.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Writing Style Checkers#22 of 297.5