A better way to give AI feedback.
AI wrote a lot.
You don’t have to.
Give the feedback you almost skipped.
Highlight what matters, leave your notes where they belong, and pass them back to the AI you use.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and Perplexity — copy an answer in, paste your feedback back.
Free to use · no account to review · local by default
01 — the gesture
The page stays still.
The marks move.
1An AI answer is usually ninety percent right. The other ten percent is scattered across eight paragraphs, a table and a code block — and you have one small chat box to say all of it in.
2So you type the first fix. Then the second. By the fourth you are spending your words describing where the problem is instead of what is wrong with it. By the fifth you give up.
3Here you mark the text instead of describing it. every note carries its own address — the quote, the heading above it, and what you want changed. That is the entire trick.
02 — selected writing · seventeen pieces
Seventeen arguments for marking up a draft.
01 / 17The manifestoYour AI draft is a train stationA draft moves on. What you meant should go with it.
What is PassbackAI?
Start here — what it does, in one read.
Why ChatGPT rewrites the whole document when you only asked for one fix
You asked for one edit. Not a new document.How to give Claude feedback without copy-paste
The passback. Minus the paste.
We’re saving the wrong thing: the Delta principle
Maybe the draft isn’t the thing worth saving.
Extract the open questions from any brief
That’s a confident plan. What did it assume?
How do you share a doc when nobody has an account?
Send the draft. Not an invitation to sign up.
“If a draft becomes worthless the moment the model regenerates it, why would we file it away?”
The manifesto
Fair questions.
Why not just reply in the chat?
For one quick correction, do.
Passback is for the answer with several things to change, question, or keep — when explaining where each note belongs starts taking longer than the note itself.
What does PassbackAI actually do?
Highlight the exact words, leave your note, and copy all your feedback back at once.
Each comment travels with the passage it refers to.
Does it work with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, etc.?
Yes. If you can copy the answer out and paste feedback back in, Passback works with it.
Some tools also support shorter routes through the extension or MCP.
Will the AI actually understand the comments?
It gets a much clearer target: the exact passage, its context, and your note.
The AI still makes the edit — Passback removes a lot of the guessing.
Does my document leave my browser?
Not in the normal paste → review → copy flow.
Your recent documents stay locally in your browser. Passback keeps the 20 most recent documents, plus anything you pin; older unpinned documents make room for newer ones.
Sharing or routing is opt-in and uses different data paths, including encrypted private links and connected AI workflows.
Do I need an account?
No. Paste a draft and start.
An account is only relevant to optional connected workflows.
Is it free?
Yes.
That thought you nearly kept to yourself?
Start there.
The next draft can’t use a thought you never send.