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.
npx skills add allemaar/open-skills --skill human-rewritegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allemaar/open-skillsWrote 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/skills/allemaar/open-skills/human-rewrite)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/human-rewrite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allemaar/open-skills/human-rewrite/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/human-rewrite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allemaar/open-skills/human-rewrite.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00182 | $0.05016 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00091 | $0.02508 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00036 | $0.01003 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00502 |
Grade A, and why
human-rewrite 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 — 374 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/human-rewrite
Repair, not authorship. Something has already been written. It is correct and unusable. Make it usable while keeping it correct.
This is translation. The source text and your text must be true of the same world. A reader who acts on your version and a reader who acts on the original must take the same action, hold the same doubts, and be surprised by the same things.
The complete style layer lives in
human-outputwhen that skill is installed. Otherwise apply the portable style floor inreferences/human-contract.md. This file carries only what exists because there is a source: what may change, what may not, and how to prove it.
If you finish a repair and only the words changed, you did the wrong pass. Most broken text is already readable. It is unusable because it is ordered by how the work happened rather than by what the reader must decide. The sentences often survive nearly intact and the document is still rebuilt.
The one failure this skill exists to prevent
A rewrite that makes something sound more certain than the original.
It happens without malice and almost always unnoticed, because every force in the rewrite pushes the same direction. Hedges are the first thing a brevity pass deletes; they look like filler. Short declarative sentences read as confident, so the style you are applying is the confidence-adding mechanism. Attribution ("the vendor's own testing showed") is long, and dropping it turns a claim into a fact. Conditions ("in adults under 70") look like detail, and detail looks cuttable. Ranges collapse to midpoints because midpoints are shorter.
The output is fluent, scannable, decision-ready, and asserts things the source did not. The reader trusts it more because it reads better.
A rewrite that increases confidence is a mistranslation, not a stylistic choice. Treat it exactly as you would treat inventing a number.
Fidelity guarantees
These seven survive the rewrite unchanged. Everything else — order, length, structure, vocabulary, format — is yours to change freely.
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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 · +2 lines de754958eb99
- 11d ago First seen · 372 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 22c7b9973b4d
human-rewrite is a skill published in the GitHub repository allemaar/open-skills (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 5,016 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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