Reading People — the Chrome extension.
Applies the constitutional framework to long-form writing. Drag an essay, an email thread, or a chapter into the side panel and the extension produces a typed reading using the same five-type vocabulary the website uses.
What it does
The assessment on this site is a fast and rough instrument. The Chrome extension is a slower and richer one. Where the twenty-six questions can identify a primary and secondary type with reasonable confidence in five minutes, the extension's analysis of someone's actual writing — three or four thousand words, ideally — will often produce a more nuanced reading, because the writing carries texture the questions cannot.
What it is for
- Self-baseline. Your own writing, run through the extension, gives a second view alongside your assessment result. The two often agree; when they disagree, the disagreement is usually informative.
- Communication calibration. Run an email from a colleague through the extension and read what the type-vocabulary suggests about how to reply. Particularly useful for difficult threads.
- Literary reading. Run a chapter, an essay, a published piece, and read what the framework picks up. Treat the result as a lens rather than a verdict.
What it does not do
It is not a clinical tool. It is not a hiring tool. It is not a surveillance tool. The framework's limits apply with extra force to anyone tempted to use a writing-based reading to make decisions about other people's work, hiring, or relationships. The extension is a vocabulary, not a verdict.
Privacy
The extension processes text via a Claude API call. No text is stored on the extension's servers; results are cached locally in the browser for the session. The extension does not transmit anything other than the text the user has explicitly handed to it.
Status
The extension is in development. A link to the Chrome Web Store listing will replace this paragraph once it ships. In the meantime, the assessment on this site provides the same framework's primary output.