Alterlab Recommendation Letters

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Drafts evidence-anchored academic reference and recommendation letters across types — graduate admission, faculty hiring, tenure/promotion external review, fellowship, and award nomination — from a structured prompt of candidate accomplishments, role context, evaluator relationship, and audience, calibrating specificity and register to the letter type and running a no-fabrication guard that flags unsupported superlatives, unanchored rankings, and claims with no evidence in the supplied dossier. Ships scripts/letter_scaffold.py to emit a typed section skeleton and scripts/claim_guard.py to lint a draft for evidence-free assertions. Use when the request is to write a recommendation or reference letter for a student or colleague, a tenure or promotion external-review letter, a fellowship or award nomination, or to check a letter draft for unsupported claims. For a candidate writing their own CV, research statement, or career narrative prefer alterlab-academic-career. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.