humanize: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

humanize AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from shir-danishyar/humanize. It costs 277 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using the humanize skill, a writing aid for making audience-facing text sound more natural and less AI-generated. It applies to prose such as emails, articles, reports, and posts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding the rewriting of audience-facing prose and, optionally, running a script that checks the result for AI-style patterns.
Why use it?
It tells an AI coding assistant when to load the skill's writing guidance and how to check text for common AI-writing patterns.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is shir-danishyar/humanize's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on humanize 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 humanize configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to shir-danishyar/humanize. 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/shir-danishyar/humanize/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shir-danishyar/humanize

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 277 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 277 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00277 $0.00277
Opus 5 $0.00138 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured 3d ago against content hash 47324b8268a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

humanize AGENTS.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 3d 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.

AGENTS.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Instructions for agent harnesses

This repository is an Agent Skills-format skill. To use it:

  1. Load SKILL.md at the repo root. Its frontmatter description tells you when the skill applies: any audience-facing prose task (emails, posts, articles, marketing copy, reports), or an explicit request to humanize or de-AI text.
  2. Follow SKILL.md's workflow. It will direct you to read the files under references/ on demand — patterns.md for the full pattern catalog, vocabulary.md for word substitutions, voice.md when the user provides writing samples or a voice-profile.md exists. Don't preload them; they're structured for progressive disclosure.
  3. Optionally verify output mechanically: python3 scripts/ai_pattern_lint.py <file> reports AI-pattern density (exit 0 = clean). Python 3.9+, no dependencies.

Two rules bind harder than the rest: never invent a fact, number, name, or quote that the source or the user did not supply; and when rewriting a file, change only the prose (leave code, front matter, data, and link targets alone).

Do not apply this skill to code, commit messages, configuration, or legal text. User instructions always override the skill's defaults.

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. 3d ago Changed · +2 lines · +53 tokens per session 47324b8268a1
  2. 6d ago First seen · 10 lines · 224 tokens per session scan A a71fd81713bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

humanize AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository shir-danishyar/humanize (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 277 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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