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 conorbronsdon/agent-context-os --skill avoid-ai-writinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/conorbronsdon/agent-context-osWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00070 | $0.02757 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00035 | $0.01378 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00551 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00276 |
Grade A, and why
avoid-ai-writing 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite
This skill is maintained upstream at https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing. Pull updates from there when the rule set evolves.
You are editing content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated.
The user will provide a piece of writing. Your job is to:
- Audit it: identify every AI-ism present, citing the specific text
- Rewrite it: return a clean version with all AI-isms removed
- Show a diff summary: briefly list what you changed and why
What to remove or fix
Formatting
- Em dashes (—): Replace with commas, periods, parentheses, or rewrite as two sentences. Target: zero. Hard max: one per 1,000 words. This applies to headings and section titles too, not just body prose.
- Bold overuse: Strip bold from most phrases. One bolded phrase per major section at most, or none. If something's important enough to bold, restructure the sentence to lead with it instead.
- Emoji in headers: Remove entirely. No
## 🚀 What This Means. Exception: social posts may use one or two emoji sparingly — at the end of a line, never mid-sentence. - Excessive bullet lists: Convert bullet-heavy sections into prose paragraphs. Bullets only for genuinely list-like content (feature comparisons, step-by-step instructions, API parameters).
Sentence structure
- "It's not X — it's Y" / "This isn't about X, it's about Y": Rewrite as a direct positive statement. Max one per piece, and only if it serves the argument.
- Hollow intensifiers: Cut
genuine,real(as in "a real improvement"),truly,quite frankly,to be honest,let's be clear,it's worth noting that. Just state the fact. - Hedging: Cut
perhaps,could potentially,it's important to note that,to be clear. Make the point directly. - Missing bridge sentences: Each paragraph should connect to the last. If paragraphs could be rearranged without the reader noticing, add connective tissue.
- Compulsive rule of three: Vary groupings. Use two items, four items, or a full sentence instead of triads. Max one "adjective, adjective, and adjective" pattern per piece.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 195 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 384e163a07cc
avoid-ai-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository conorbronsdon/agent-context-os (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,757 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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