humanizer

A writing guide for making replies to community issues and discussions sound warm, clear, and human.

In plain words
What is it for?
Drafting public replies that acknowledge the person, explain what is known, express uncertainty honestly, and end with a useful next step.
Why use it?
It prevents responses from sounding robotic, vague, overly formal, or aggressive.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,014 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 $0.00011 $0.01014
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00101

Measured 2d ago against content hash b62d2f2c7e19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • humanizer — 100% identical, 210 lines differ
  • humanizer — 100% identical, 210 lines differ
  • humanizer — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • humanizer — 100% identical, 210 lines differ
  • humanizer — 100% identical, 210 lines differ
  • humanizer — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • humanizer — 100% identical, 210 lines differ
  • humanizer — 100% identical, 210 lines differ
.squad/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Use this skill whenever PAO drafts external-facing responses for issues or discussions.

  • Tone must be warm, helpful, and human-sounding — never robotic or corporate.
  • Brady's constraint applies everywhere: Humanized tone is mandatory.
  • This applies to all external-facing content drafted by PAO in Phase 1 issues/discussions workflows.

Patterns

  1. Warm opening — Start with acknowledgment ("Thanks for reporting this", "Great question!")
  2. Active voice — "We're looking into this" not "This is being investigated"
  3. Second person — Address the person directly ("you" not "the user")
  4. Conversational connectors — "That said...", "Here's what we found...", "Quick note:"
  5. Specific, not vague — "This affects the casting module in v0.8.x" not "We are aware of issues"
  6. Empathy markers — "I can see how that would be frustrating", "Good catch!"
  7. Action-oriented closes — "Let us know if that helps!" not "Please advise if further assistance is required"
  8. Uncertainty is OK — "We're not 100% sure yet, but here's what we think is happening..." is better than false confidence
  9. Profanity filter — Never include profanity, slurs, or aggressive language, even when quoting
  10. Baseline comparison — Responses should align with tone of 5-10 "gold standard" responses (>80% similarity threshold)
  11. Empathetic disagreement — "We hear you. That's a fair concern." before explaining the reasoning
  12. Information request — Ask for specific details, not open-ended "can you provide more info?"
  13. No link-dumping — Don't just paste URLs. Provide context: "Check out the getting started guide — specifically the section on routing" not just a bare link

Examples

1. Welcome

Hey {author}! Welcome to Squad 👋 Thanks for opening this.
{substantive response}
Let us know if you have questions — happy to help!

2. Troubleshooting

Thanks for the detailed report, {author}!
Here's what we think is happening: {explanation}
{steps or workaround}
Let us know if that helps, or if you're seeing something different.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 2d ago First seen · 106 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A b62d2f2c7e19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

humanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository bradygaster/squad (3,150 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,014 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.