avoid-ai-writing is a portable writing skill that detects common patterns associated with AI-generated prose and can rewrite them or make targeted edits to prose files. It is for users of Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, and other compatible coding agents who want text to sound more like human writing. The catalogue entries are the skill's rule and instruction components.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writingWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00918 | $0.00918 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00459 | $0.00459 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00184 | $0.00184 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00092 | $0.00092 |
Grade A, and why
avoid-ai-writing CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
What this is
A directory-based writing skill (SKILL.md plus references/patterns.md) that audits and rewrites content to remove AI writing patterns. The skill is a markdown file consumed by AI coding assistants; the repository also includes a dependency-free deterministic detector and test suite.
Repository structure
SKILL.md— entry instructions, severity tiers, preservation rules, and output formats.references/patterns.md— canonical word tiers, catalog, context and voice profiles.SKILL.full.md— generated full source for comparison and self-scan.dist/avoid-ai-writing.md— generated portable paste instructions.README.md— public-facing docs, installation instructions, pattern reference table, full before/after example.CHANGELOG.md— version history with what changed and why.
How to make changes
Edit SKILL.md and references/patterns.md directly. When making changes:
- Bump the version in the SKILL.md frontmatter (
version: X.Y.Z) - Run
bash scripts/sync-plugin-skill.sh. The two canonical files are the source of truth; the plugin's bundled copy andplugin.json's version are generated from it, and CI fails on a mismatch. Bumping the frontmatter without this step fails thecheckjob withversion mismatch: SKILL.md=X plugin.json=Y. - Run
npm testto exercise the detector, category contract, validator, corpus helpers, and style checks. - Add a dated entry to CHANGELOG.md
- Update README.md if the change affects installation, usage, feature list, or pattern count
- The pattern count lives in one place — the README "74 pattern categories" bullet — and is derived from references/patterns.md's detection
###entries. Don't restate it elsewhere; CI (scripts/check-pattern-count.sh) fails the build if the README number drifts from references/patterns.md, so just add the new###entry and bump the README bullet.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- today Changed · +4 lines · +106 tokens per session 8e409b93e7e3
- yesterday Changed 6af6bfa7fd4e
- 6d ago First seen · 48 lines · 812 tokens per session scan A 8590c8b83d29
avoid-ai-writing CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing (4,136 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 918 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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