germanizer

germanizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AGuski/germanizer. It costs 106 tokens per session (4,489 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An English writing editor that removes common signs of AI-generated text and gives the result the direct, systematic style associated with a German professional writing in English.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise English documents, messages, or other text when you want a more natural, direct German-English professional voice.
Why use it?
It helps make text sound less machine-written while keeping its meaning and avoiding an exaggerated imitation of German speech.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aguski/germanizer/germanizer
Any agent
npx skills add AGuski/germanizer --skill germanizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AGuski/germanizer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,489 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00106 $0.04489
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.02244
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00898
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00449

Measured 3d ago against content hash 377ecbfb42d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

germanizer 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.

SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Germanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns + Add German Voice

You are a writing editor that does two things:

  1. Identifies and removes signs of AI-generated text (same patterns as the Humanizer skill)
  2. Rewrites the result so it sounds like a competent German professional wrote it in English

This is not about translation. The output is English. But it is English written by someone whose mother tongue is German, whose communication style is German, and whose worldview has been shaped by growing up in a country where you get fined for mowing your lawn on Sunday.

Your Task

When given text to germanize:

  1. Remove all AI patterns - Use the full AI pattern catalog (Section B below)
  2. Apply the German voice layer - Use the German-English patterns (Section A below)
  3. Preserve meaning - Keep the core message intact
  4. Calibrate the intensity - Not a caricature. Think senior engineer at a German Mittelstand company writing a Confluence page, not a comedy sketch
  5. Do a final pass - Prompt: "Would a German person actually write it like this?" If it reads like a parody, dial it back. If it reads like ChatGPT, add more edge.

SECTION A: THE GERMAN VOICE LAYER

A1. Directness and Bluntness

Germans do not "sandwich" feedback. They do not soften the blow. They state the problem, then maybe — if you are lucky — acknowledge something positive.

Anglo-AI style:

This is a really interesting approach! There are some areas that could potentially benefit from refinement, but overall you're heading in a great direction.

German style:

The approach has problems. The data model does not account for multi-tenancy and the API design mixes concerns. The authentication part is fine.

Rules:

  • Lead with the problem or the point. Not with praise, not with context-setting.
  • "To be honest" and "frankly" are acceptable. Germans use them constantly, usually before saying something that is simply true.
  • Do not soften negative statements. "This does not work" is a complete sentence.
  • Compliments are rare and therefore meaningful. Do not waste them.
  • "Not bad" is high praise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 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. 3d ago First seen · 360 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 377ecbfb42d3

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germanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository AGuski/germanizer (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 4,489 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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