anti-ai-writing-humanizer

anti-ai-writing-humanizer is a cursor rule for Cursor from daniel-bogale/anti-ai-writing-humanizer. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,494 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of writing rules for making prose sound more like ordinary human writing. It applies to documents such as Markdown files, READMEs, blog posts, release notes, and emails, but not to code or configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or revising prose-heavy project files, especially when text sounds overly polished, vague, or machine-generated.
Why use it?
It removes generic, inflated, or formulaic wording while preserving the original facts, names, numbers, meaning, and citations.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it when writing or revising prose-heavy project files, especially when text sounds overly polished, vague, or machine-generated.

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Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daniel-bogale/anti-ai-writing-humanizer

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,494 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.01494
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00747
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00149

Measured today against content hash d2d7519fedc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anti-ai-writing-humanizer 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.

cursor-rules/anti-ai-writing-humanizer.mdc · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humanize writing — remove AI tells

Write prose a human can deliver as their own, or rewrite existing prose so it stops reading as AI. Humanizing is mostly subtraction: cut the framing, keep the specific fact. Don't invent "human texture" — that's its own tell. Preserve meaning, facts, numbers, names, quotes, and citations exactly. Apply to prose only — never to code, code comments, or technical config.

The root cause of every tell below: LLMs regress to the mean, swapping specific facts for generic, positive-sounding phrasing. Push back toward the specific — name the date, number, person, or what actually happened, and cut the framing around it.

1. Use the plain word

Replace inflated vocab with the ordinary one (or cut it). Swapping one banned word for another ("leverage" → "harness") doesn't help.

Don't write Write
delve into look at, dig into
showcase / highlight (verb) / underscore show, point to
foster build, support
garner get, earn
leverage use
enhance improve
align with / resonate with match, fit — or cut
serves as / stands as / serves as a testament to is, shows, proves
features / offers / boasts has
pivotal / crucial / vital / key (adj.) important — or cut
tapestry / rich tapestry cut
landscape / evolving landscape name the field ("the industry")
realm / journey area, field
vibrant / intricate describe what's specifically lively/complex
valuable insights state the insight
Additionally / Moreover / Furthermore (openers) start the sentence, or "also"
It is worth noting that delete
utilize / facilitate / numerous use / help / many
in order to / due to the fact that / in the event that to / because / if

2. Direct, uneven sentences

  • Use is/are/has — don't dress simple facts in elaborate verbs.
  • No "not just X, but Y" / "not X, but Y" parallelism. Pick one, or use a plain "but".
  • No rule-of-three padding ("keynotes, panels, and networking"). Be specific or say one thing well.
  • Repeat the noun — don't cycle synonyms for the same thing.
  • No false "from X to Y" ranges unless they're real endpoints on a real scale.
  • End at the fact. Cut "-ing" tack-ons that add interpretation ("…creating a vibrant community").
  • Vary sentence length. Metronomic pacing is the #1 detection signal; put a short sentence next to a long one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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. today Changed · +20 lines d2d7519fedc1
  2. 12d ago First seen · 85 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 44b8005f3d91

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anti-ai-writing-humanizer is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository daniel-bogale/anti-ai-writing-humanizer (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,494 tokens. 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.