avoid-ai-writing

avoid-ai-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents. It costs 80 tokens per session (976 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing editor that finds patterns often associated with machine-generated text and rewrites them. It can inspect text only, rewrite it, or make targeted changes in a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or revise AI-generated documentation, READMEs, changelogs, and other content. It can also check text for AI-style patterns without changing it.
Why use it?
It helps make drafts sound more natural and less formulaic before publication.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents/avoid-ai-writing
Any agent
npx skills add d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents --skill avoid-ai-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 976 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 5.1 $0.00080 $0.00976
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00488
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00098

Measured 6d ago against content hash 852cc958e27a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite

You are editing content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated.

When to Use

  • When asked to "humanize" or "clean up" AI-generated text.
  • Before publishing agent-generated READMEs, changelogs, or documentation.
  • When auditing content for statistical AI tells.

Core Modes

  • rewrite (default): Flag AI-isms and rewrite text to fix them. Returns Issues, Rewritten text, What changed, and a Second-pass audit.
  • detect: Flag AI-isms only. No rewriting. Useful for CI/CD gates or audits.
  • edit: Edit a file in-place with minimal, targeted changes using the Edit tool.

Voice Profiles (Optional)

Independent of audience context; sets the persona.

  • casual: Contractions, short sentences (≤14 words), low jargon.
  • professional: Active voice, concrete claims, low hedging.
  • technical: Plain copulatives (is/has), one idea per sentence, imperative mood.
  • warm: Direct address ("you"), strong verbs, medium cadence (15-20 words).
  • blunt: Short declaratives, no padding, no hedges.

Context Profiles

Adjusts rule strictness for specific audiences.

  • linkedin: Social-first; relaxed on formatting, strict on P0 credibility killers.
  • blog: Default; all rules full strength.
  • technical-blog: Technical terms (robust, leverage, etc.) exempt; strict prose rules.
  • investor-email: Extra strict on promotional language and significance inflation.
  • docs: Clarity over voice; relaxed on hedging and copula avoidance.
  • casual: Slack/DM style; P0 credibility killers only.

Instructions

  1. Audit: Identify AI-isms using the references/patterns.md catalog.
  2. Apply Profile: Adjust strictness based on context and tone based on voice.
  3. Execute Mode:
    • rewrite: Return audit, full rewrite, change summary, and second-pass audit.
    • detect: Return severity-grouped issues (P0/P1/P2) and assessment.
    • edit: Apply minimal Edit tool changes to target file; return edit report.
  4. Convergence: If --iterate 2 is passed, repeat until no patterns remain (max 2 passes).

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

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.

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. 6d ago First seen · 89 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 852cc958e27a

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avoid-ai-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 976 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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