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 preservation-verifiergit 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/preservation-verifier)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/preservation-verifier"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/preservation-verifier/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/preservation-verifier"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/preservation-verifier.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 | $0.00054 | $0.01362 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00545 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00272 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00136 |
Grade A, and why
preservation-verifier 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 9d 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 — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Preservation Verifier
Verify that a rewrite or file edit kept the content the original ../avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md says to protect.
For cross-Skill work, follow ../avoid-ai-writing-router/references/handoff-contract.md and ../avoid-ai-writing-router/references/skill-graph.json.
Connection contract
Incoming
Accept before/after verification from:
avoid-ai-writing-routerviaROUTEwhen the user directly supplies before and after material.voice-preserving-rewriterviaVERIFYafter returned-text rewriting.file-edit-in-placeviaVERIFYafter an authorized named-file mutation.
Require both original and current versions. If either is unavailable, return control to the router rather than inventing a comparison.
Produce
Update the handoff envelope with:
execution_evidence.verifier:executedonly if the bundled validator ran, otherwisemodel_only.verification_summary.status:PASS,REVIEW, orFAIL.- blocking errors and warnings.
- exact repair target when repair is possible.
A FAIL is a blocking workflow result. The rewrite/edit stage is not complete merely because text was produced or a file write succeeded.
Outgoing
REPAIRtovoice-preserving-rewriterwhen returned text failed preservation and the shared editing budget has room.REPAIRtofile-edit-in-placewhen a named file failed preservation and the shared editing budget has room.RECHECKtoai-writing-detectoronly when convergence or a residual audit was part of the user's request.- Stop on
PASSunless another user-requested stage remains. - Stop and report on a second verification failure. Do not start another repair loop.
Architecture and implementation lenses
Apply both encoded lenses from ../avoid-ai-writing-router/references/agency-role-lenses.md:
agency-software-architect: verification is a boundary gate with explicit ownership and bounded repair cycles.agency-senior-developer: execution claims require actual command evidence, errors propagate, and before/after state remains attributable to the correct target.
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.
- 9d ago Changed e67c6f9708f7
- 20d ago Changed · +2 lines 515cedd95386
- 25d ago Changed · +1 lines 119687053008
- 1mo ago Changed 1e46b9309d98
- 1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 7782920a4367
preservation-verifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing (5,229 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,362 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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