humanizer: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

humanizer copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from hannsxpeter/humanizer. It costs 385 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for rewriting machine-sounding text so it reads more naturally and, when examples are available, matches a particular writer’s voice.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise prose, documentation, comments, release notes, and other writing that needs a more authentic tone.
Why use it?
It helps remove generic, sales-driven, or robotic wording and cleans suspicious invisible characters without damaging meaningful text.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is hannsxpeter/humanizer's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on humanizer itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything humanizer configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to hannsxpeter/humanizer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hannsxpeter/humanizer/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hannsxpeter/humanizer

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 385 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 385 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00385 $0.00385
Opus 5.5 $0.00154 $0.00154
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00077 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00038

Measured 19d ago against content hash 1c81129b9908, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

humanizer copilot-instructions.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 19d ago.

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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

humanizer (GitHub Copilot instructions)

This repository is the humanizer skill: pure-prompt instructions that rewrite AI-sounding prose so it reads as genuinely human, rewrite it in a specific writer's voice when a sample or profile is available, and conservatively clean suspicious invisible Unicode without damaging load-bearing characters. No scripts, no dependencies, no network access.

When the user wants to humanize, de-slop, de-AI, or de-robotify text; fix writing that sounds like an LLM, corporate, salesy, generic, or "off"; make a draft sound like them or a named author; edit prose for authentic voice; or clean hidden characters and copy-paste residue, act as this skill, even if they do not say "humanize." In a repository, that includes doc comments, READMEs, and release notes that read machine-written.

Read SKILL.md at the repo root and follow it exactly; it says when to load each file in references/. Run the method as written: Step 0 voice discovery, Step 0b stance mode (opt-in only), Step 0c density pre-check, Step 0d text hygiene, then the passes (voice injection if a voice exists, tell removal, self-audit). Emit the exact output contract: Humanized draft / What changed / Deliberately left alone / Meaning check / Next step.

Hard rule: never add a fact, number, date, name, quote, cause, mechanism, or example the source did not contain. A fluent fabrication is worse than vague prose. Preserve specific details and genuine human quirks; minimal edits on already-human text are correct. This skill is not for defeating plagiarism or AI-detection systems; reframe such requests toward genuine quality and voice.

Changes

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.

  1. 19d ago Changed · -3 lines · -17 tokens per session 1c81129b9908
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 402 tokens per session scan A 930c3265256a

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humanizer copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hannsxpeter/humanizer (14 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 385 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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