Tools

Everything Syft does.

Syft Detect and Humanize are the reason most people arrive. This is everything else the workspace can do. You bring the content, and it offers exactly the lenses defined for that kind of file.

Lens / tool	Writing	Documents	PDFs	Code	Notebooks	Images
OverviewEverything Syft found, across every engine that ran.
AIHow strongly this reads as machine-written. An estimate, never proof.			AI: not applicable to PDFs	AI: not applicable to Code	AI: not applicable to Notebooks	AI: not applicable to Images
WritingGrammar, spelling, clarity, conciseness, style and consistency, with cadence measured locally.			Writing: not applicable to PDFs	Writing: not applicable to Code	Writing: not applicable to Notebooks	Writing: not applicable to Images
ImproveClarity edits from Syft's writing measurements: over-long sentences, heavy signposting, filler. Reviewed one by one.		Improve: not applicable to Documents	Improve: not applicable to PDFs	Improve: not applicable to Code	Improve: not applicable to Notebooks	Improve: not applicable to Images
HumanizeMake wording read more naturally while preserving meaning, facts, names and citations. A writing tool — not a way to defeat detectors.		Humanize: not applicable to Documents	Humanize: not applicable to PDFs	Humanize: not applicable to Code	Humanize: not applicable to Notebooks	Humanize: not applicable to Images
Academic VoiceCompare this writing with the academic style measured in your own samples. Similarity of style — never evidence of authorship.			Academic Voice: not applicable to PDFs	Academic Voice: not applicable to Code	Academic Voice: not applicable to Notebooks	Academic Voice: not applicable to Images
SecretsCredentials and keys left in the source.	Secrets: not applicable to Writing	Secrets: not applicable to Documents	Secrets: not applicable to PDFs			Secrets: not applicable to Images
PathsAbsolute filesystem paths that name your account or machine.	Paths: not applicable to Writing	Paths: not applicable to Documents	Paths: not applicable to PDFs			Paths: not applicable to Images
OutputsResults stored inside the notebook from the last time it ran.	Outputs: not applicable to Writing	Outputs: not applicable to Documents	Outputs: not applicable to PDFs	Outputs: not applicable to Code		Outputs: not applicable to Images
MetadataWhat the file records about you, its author and its history.	Metadata: not applicable to Writing
PrivacyWhat someone could learn about you from this file — identity, location, device, time and editing history, in one exposure view.	Privacy: not applicable to Writing			Privacy: not applicable to Code	Privacy: not applicable to Notebooks	Privacy: not applicable to Images
ProvenanceContent Credentials, the file's integrity record and where these bytes came from. Evidence about origin — never a verdict on truth.	Provenance: not applicable to Writing			Provenance: not applicable to Code	Provenance: not applicable to Notebooks
StructureWhat the file is made of — pages, images, fonts, embedded files, links and the other parts inside the container.				Structure: not applicable to Code	Structure: not applicable to Notebooks	Structure: not applicable to Images
HistoryThis document's record: what Syft did with it, and the editing traces the file itself carries.				History: not applicable to Code	History: not applicable to Notebooks	History: not applicable to Images
CleanChoose what to remove. Always written to a copy.	Clean: not applicable to Writing
VerifyRescan a cleaned copy and issue a before-and-after receipt.	Verify: not applicable to Writing
CompareThis document beside another version — what changed in the text, the metadata, the privacy exposure and the structure.				Compare: not applicable to Code	Compare: not applicable to Notebooks	Compare: not applicable to Images
ExtractPull out what the file contains — text, links, images and embedded parts — to preview, copy or download.				Extract: not applicable to Code	Extract: not applicable to Notebooks	Extract: not applicable to Images
SearchFind where something appears — in the visible text, and in the metadata, comments and hidden content the page does not show.				Search: not applicable to Code	Search: not applicable to Notebooks	Search: not applicable to Images

Generated from the workspace’s own capability registry, so a lens appears here exactly when it can run on the tool rail. PDF text extraction has not shipped, so over PDFs the AI and Writing lenses are off and Compare, Extract and Search read the file’s metadata, links and structure rather than its text. Data files (JSON, YAML, CSV…) take the code-shaped lenses too, and a multi-file project runs secrets, paths and metadata across every file at once.

Writing

Your draft, read closely.

Paste or type and the text lenses light up: Syft Detect marks the passages carrying AI-writing signals and names the pattern behind each one, writing analysis measures how the prose moves, and the editing tools propose changes you review one at a time.

Writing: Grammar, spelling, clarity, conciseness, style and consistency, with cadence measured locally.
Improve: Clarity edits from Syft's writing measurements: over-long sentences, heavy signposting, filler. Reviewed one by one.
Humanize: Make wording read more naturally while preserving meaning, facts, names and citations. A writing tool — not a way to defeat detectors.
Academic Voice: Compare this writing with the academic style measured in your own samples. Similarity of style — never evidence of authorship.
Structure: What the file is made of — pages, images, fonts, embedded files, links and the other parts inside the container.
History: This document's record: what Syft did with it, and the editing traces the file itself carries.
Compare: This document beside another version — what changed in the text, the metadata, the privacy exposure and the structure.
Extract: Pull out what the file contains — text, links, images and embedded parts — to preview, copy or download.
Search: Find where something appears — in the visible text, and in the metadata, comments and hidden content the page does not show.

Improve and Humanize are writing refinement, in the registry’s own words: they improve your work and make wording read more naturally.

Syft's AI analysis panel over a pasted draft: estimated likelihood, content breakdown and per-passage evidence — Syft Detect: the passages, with the pattern behind each one

Syft's Humanize panel: scope, rewrite modes from natural to simpler, and two proposed changes awaiting review, with the panel's own note about what Humanize is not for — Humanize: proposals, reviewed before anything is written

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Syft's Metadata inspector: identity, dates, software and editing history read from a Word document — Metadata

Syft's Privacy exposure panel grading identity, location, device, time and document history for the same file — Privacy exposure

The metadata story in full

Documents & PDFs

The deepest workflow in Syft.

Every analysis lens plus the full set of actions: inspect, compare, clean, extract, search, and export one consolidated report of everything that ran.

AI: How strongly this reads as machine-written. An estimate, never proof.
Writing: Grammar, spelling, clarity, conciseness, style and consistency, with cadence measured locally.
Academic Voice: Compare this writing with the academic style measured in your own samples. Similarity of style — never evidence of authorship.
Provenance: Content Credentials, the file's integrity record and where these bytes came from. Evidence about origin — never a verdict on truth.
Structure: What the file is made of — pages, images, fonts, embedded files, links and the other parts inside the container.
History: This document's record: what Syft did with it, and the editing traces the file itself carries.
Clean: Choose what to remove. Always written to a copy.
Verify: Rescan a cleaned copy and issue a before-and-after receipt.
Compare: This document beside another version — what changed in the text, the metadata, the privacy exposure and the structure.
Extract: Pull out what the file contains — text, links, images and embedded parts — to preview, copy or download.
Search: Find where something appears — in the visible text, and in the metadata, comments and hidden content the page does not show.

Improve and Humanize need Syft’s editable text surface, so they stay off for documents and PDFs: a document’s extracted text is read-only here, and the workspace says so.

Code & notebooks

What your source hands to a stranger.

Code you share carries more than logic: credentials left in config, paths that name your machine and account, and, in notebooks, the outputs stored from the last run.

Secrets: Credentials and keys left in the source.
Paths: Absolute filesystem paths that name your account or machine.
Outputs: Results stored inside the notebook from the last time it ran.
Metadata: What the file records about you, its author and its history.
Clean: Choose what to remove. Always written to a copy.
Verify: Rescan a cleaned copy and issue a before-and-after receipt.

Outputs is notebook-specific; plain source files take the same lenses minus it. A multi-file project runs secrets, paths and metadata across every file in one inspection.

Syft's code workspace reading a Python file: syntax-highlighted source with the flagged secret and machine path highlighted, and the overview panel reporting the secret scan, path scan and metadata checks — The code workspace: a real capture, and the flagged key is Stripe's publicly documented, inert test key.

Syft's Metadata panel over a photo: findings naming the artist, the camera make and model, the editing software and the modification timestamp — Image metadata

Syft's Provenance panel over the same photo: the Content Credentials check and the file's SHA-256 integrity record — Provenance: Content Credentials and the integrity record

Images

What the pixels don't show.

A photo can carry the device, software and timestamps of its making and, increasingly, signed Content Credentials about its origin. Syft reads both layers and reports exactly what it finds.

Metadata: What the file records about you, its author and its history.
Provenance: Content Credentials, the file's integrity record and where these bytes came from. Evidence about origin — never a verdict on truth.
Clean: Choose what to remove. Always written to a copy.
Verify: Rescan a cleaned copy and issue a before-and-after receipt.

How Syft reads Content Credentials

Across every kind

Same tools. Kind-shaped results.

The spanning tools follow the content: what Search or Clean returns depends on what the file actually is.

Search

In a document it finds a phrase in the visible text and in the metadata, comments and hidden content the page doesn't show. In code, it finds it anywhere in the source.

Compare

Two document versions diff across text, metadata, privacy exposure and structure at once: what changed on the page, and what changed underneath it.

Clean

Always written to a copy, never over the original, and the copy is re-inspected, so removal is proven rather than assumed. When nothing can be safely removed by a shipped transform, Clean says so.

Extract & Report

Extract pulls out what a file contains: text, links, images, embedded parts. Report consolidates every check that ran, what it found, and what could not be checked.

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