awesome-claude-code [Resource]: Britfix

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Britfix

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https://github.com/Talieisin/britfix

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Talieisin

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https://github.com/Talieisin

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MIT

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Description

Claude outputs American spellings by default. Britfix converts to British English, with a Claude Code hook for automatic conversion as files are written. Context-aware: handles code files intelligently by only converting comments and docstrings, never identifiers or string literals.

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Dec 01 '25 17:12 george-elphick-talieisin

thanks @george-elphick-talieisin ! i'm inclined to include this in a kid of "creativity" special category, because it's interesting - curious though, is there a use value besides having a UX that matches your natural dialect? (which is to say - that's not a trivial thing - I'm just wondering if this solves some kind of technical problem that British users of Claude face beyond that.) thanks!

Dec 02 '25 04:12 hesreallyhim

The main driver is consistency - when Claude outputs American spellings into a British English codebase, web site content corpus or documentation, the result is jarring inconsistencies. This matters for:

Professional credibility - Mixed spellings undermine trust, especially for client-facing work
Discretion - Nothing screams "I used AI" more than Americanisations scattered through code written by a British or Commonwealth developer. Some prefer not to advertise their AI assistance
Compliance - Some organisations (government, education) have style guides requiring British English
Beyond code - Claude Code isn't always just for software. Documentation, proposals, reports - anywhere British English matters.

No matter how carefully you prompt, LLMs fall back to outputting in alignment with their training data, which is primarily American English.

Compared to spell-checker extensions and tools, Britfix is significantly faster, more accurate (context-aware - it won't flag API names like colorScheme in comments - unless configured otherwise), and once the hook is set up, it's invisible - you forget it's there.

Dec 02 '25 06:12 george-elphick-talieisin

@george-elphick-talieisin thanks I'd like to add this to the description because it makes it a bit clearer why this matters besides a UI/UX thing, what do you think?

Claude outputs American spellings by default, which can have an impact on: professional credibility, compliance, documentation, and more. Britfix converts to British English, with a Claude Code hook for automatic conversion as files are written. Context-aware: handles code files intelligently by only converting comments and docstrings, never identifiers or string literals.

Dec 03 '25 02:12 hesreallyhim

/approve

Dec 03 '25 07:12 hesreallyhim

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Dec 03 '25 07:12 github-actions[bot]

/approve

Dec 03 '25 07:12 hesreallyhim

✅ Resource Approved!

🎉 A pull request has been created with your resource: https://github.com/hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code/pull/349

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Dec 03 '25 07:12 github-actions[bot]

Thank you for adding this to the collection of resources. I hope people find it useful

Dec 05 '25 18:12 george-elphick-talieisin