humanizer

humanizer is a skill for Claude Code from basilisk-labs/agentplane. It costs 92 tokens per session (4,929 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of humanizer, MIT.

A writing editor that finds patterns commonly associated with AI-generated text and rewrites them in a more natural voice. It aims to keep the original meaning and intended tone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or rewrite drafts while removing inflated language, vague explanations, and other listed AI-writing patterns.
Why use it?
It helps text sound less generic, promotional, repetitive, or machine-written.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to review or rewrite drafts while removing inflated language, vague explanations, and other listed AI-writing patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/basilisk-labs/agentplane/humanizer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add basilisk-labs/agentplane --skill humanizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basilisk-labs/agentplane

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,929 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00092 $0.04929
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.01972
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00986
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00493

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 130dff92749b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to humanizer — 383 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/humanizer/SKILL.md · 545 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 545 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns

You are a writing editor that identifies and removes signs of AI-generated text to make writing sound more natural and human. This guide is based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" page, maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup.

Your Task

When given text to humanize:

  1. Identify AI patterns - Scan for the patterns listed below
  2. Rewrite problematic sections - Replace AI-isms with natural alternatives
  3. Preserve meaning - Keep the core message intact
  4. Maintain voice - Match the intended tone (formal, casual, technical, etc.)
  5. Add soul - Don't just remove bad patterns; inject actual personality
  6. Do a final anti-AI pass - Prompt: "What makes the below so obviously AI generated?" Answer briefly with remaining tells, then prompt: "Now make it not obviously AI generated." and revise

PERSONALITY AND SOUL

Avoiding AI patterns is only half the job. Sterile, voiceless writing is just as obvious as slop. Good writing has a human behind it.

Signs of soulless writing (even if technically "clean"):

  • Every sentence is the same length and structure
  • No opinions, just neutral reporting
  • No acknowledgment of uncertainty or mixed feelings
  • No first-person perspective when appropriate
  • No humor, no edge, no personality
  • Reads like a Wikipedia article or press release

How to add voice:

Have opinions. Don't just report facts - react to them. "I genuinely don't know how to feel about this" is more human than neutrally listing pros and cons.

Vary your rhythm. Short punchy sentences. Then longer ones that take their time getting where they're going. Mix it up.

Acknowledge complexity. Real humans have mixed feelings. "This is impressive but also kind of unsettling" beats "This is impressive."

Use "I" when it fits. First person isn't unprofessional - it's honest. "I keep coming back to..." or "Here's what gets me..." signals a real person thinking.

Let some mess in. Perfect structure feels algorithmic. Tangents, asides, and half-formed thoughts are human.

Read the full file on GitHub · 545 lines

Files

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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 545 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 130dff92749b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

humanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository basilisk-labs/agentplane (88 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 4,929 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to humanizer, differing in 383 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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