avoid-ai-writing is a portable writing skill that detects common patterns associated with AI-generated prose and can rewrite them or make targeted edits to prose files. It is for users of Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, and other compatible coding agents who want text to sound more like human writing. The catalogue entries are the skill's rule and instruction components.
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/avoid-ai-writing --skill ai-writing-detectorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writingWrote 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/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/ai-writing-detector)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/ai-writing-detector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/ai-writing-detector/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/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/ai-writing-detector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/ai-writing-detector.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 | $0.00044 | $0.00864 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00432 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00173 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00086 |
Grade A, and why
ai-writing-detector 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 5d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- ai-writing-detector — 91% identical, 54 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AI Writing Detector
Run a detect-only review using the original Avoid AI Writing rules. Never rewrite unless the user changes the request.
Authority
The canonical rulebook is ../avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md. Its cautions about false positives, context, protected material, and authorship claims apply here.
For cross-Skill work, follow ../avoid-ai-writing-router/references/handoff-contract.md and the typed edges in ../avoid-ai-writing-router/references/skill-graph.json.
Connection contract
Incoming
Accept detector work from:
avoid-ai-writing-routerviaROUTEfor detect-only requests, the audit stage of a multi-stage request, or fresh signal collection after another terminal stage returns control to the router.preservation-verifiervia boundedRECHECKonly when convergence or residual auditing was part of the request.
Do not accept a direct handoff from false-positive-reviewer. That Skill is terminal in the graph and must return control to avoid-ai-writing-router when fresh signal collection is needed. This prevents a reviewer-detector cycle.
Carry forward the existing context_mode, protected constraints, pass state, and risk flags. Do not reset them.
Produce
Update the handoff envelope with:
execution_evidence.detector:executedonly if the bundled detector actually ran, otherwisemodel_only.detector_summary.scoreandlabelonly when produced by executed detector code.detector_summary.issue_typesfrom actual findings.- any
consequential_authorship_claimrisk flag observed in the user's request.
Outgoing
FEEDfindings tovoice-preserving-rewriteronly when the user also requested returned-text rewriting.FEEDfindings tofile-edit-in-placeonly when the user explicitly requested mutation of a named file.ESCALATEtofalse-positive-reviewerwhen the user asks what the findings can establish about authorship or another consequential conclusion.- Otherwise stop after the detect-only result.
What ships with it
3 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.
- 5d ago First seen · 90 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 6447bd7104c3
ai-writing-detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing (4,244 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 864 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.
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