bito

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bito = building in the open.

bito is part of the building-in-the-open approach to AI-assisted development — a set of practices, templates, and tools for teams that work with coding agents. It can be used entirely on its own; the broader framework just gives it more context to work with.

AI coding agents generate documentation as they work — ADRs, design docs, changelogs, handoff notes. The quality varies between sessions. Sometimes you get crisp, well-structured prose. Sometimes you get bloated walls of text that no one wants to review.

bito catches the problems before you commit. It runs 18 deterministic writing checks — readability scoring, token budgets, section completeness, grammar, dialect enforcement, and style analysis. No LLM, no API calls, no network. Same input, same result, every time.

The goal: agent-generated documents that are clean enough to ship.

$ bito analyze docs/architecture.md

docs/architecture.md

  Readability: Grade 12.4, 24 sentences, 390 words
  Grammar:     8 issues, 3 passive (12.5%)
  Sticky:      Glue index 21.5%, 2 sticky sentences
  Pacing:      Fast 62% / Medium 29% / Slow 8%
  Length:      Avg 15.8 words, variety 10.0/10
  Transitions: 0% of sentences, 0 unique
  Overused:    "template" (1.3%), "skill" (1.1%), "design" (1.1%)
  Diction:     2 vague words
  Style:       Score 92/100, 2 adverbs, 0 hidden verbs

`analyze` runs 18 checks in one pass:

| Category | What it catches | |----------|----------------| | Readability | Flesch-Kincaid grade l