Grammarly Reference Architecture
Architecture
┌────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Your Application │
├────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Content Quality Service │
│ (Score, AI Detect, Plagiarism) │
├────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Grammarly API Client │
│ (Auth, Retry, Cache, Chunking) │
├────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Grammarly APIs │
│ api.grammarly.com │
└────────────────────────────────────┘
Project Structure
grammarly-integration/
├── src/grammarly/
│ ├── client.ts # API client with token management
│ ├── scoring.ts # Writing Score API
│ ├── detection.ts # AI + Plagiarism detection
│ ├── chunking.ts # Large document splitting
│ └── types.ts # TypeScript interfaces
├── src/services/
│ ├── quality-gate.ts # Threshold enforcement
│ └── content-audit.ts # Full audit pipeline
├── tests/
└── .env.example
API Decision Matrix
| Need | API | Notes | |------|-----|-------| | Grammar/style quality | Writing Score v2 | Sync, fast | | AI content detection | AI Detection v1 | Sync, fast | | Source matching | Plagiarism v1 | Async, poll | | All three | Combined pipeline | Parallel where possible |
Resources
Next Steps
Start with grammarly-install-auth.