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 (913 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).

Good fit 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.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents/avoid-ai-writing
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.

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 913 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00913
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00365
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00091

Measured 25d ago against content hash 96113ace76c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 25d 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 · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 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)

Personas are canonical in voice-profiles — see that skill for definitions. Pass the chosen profile name (casual, professional, technical, warm, blunt) with the rewrite request instead of redefining personas here.

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).

Severity Tiers

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 25d ago Changed · -4 lines 96113ace76c5
  2. 1mo 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 913 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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