academic-humanizer

academic-humanizer is a skill for Codex from dongshuyan/compass-skills. It costs 141 tokens per session (3,462 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing and review guide for English or Chinese academic prose that reduces formulaic, empty, repetitive, or process-focused wording while preserving the original claims and evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft, audit, or minimally revise scholarly manuscripts while keeping terminology, reasoning, evidence strength, and academic tone consistent.
Why use it?
It improves readability without weakening uncertainty, changing facts, or making the writing imitate a different author.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to draft, audit, or minimally revise scholarly manuscripts while keeping terminology, reasoning, evidence strength, and academic tone consistent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dongshuyan/compass-skills/academic-humanizer
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 dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill academic-humanizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,462 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00141 $0.03462
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01731
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00692
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00346

Measured 11d ago against content hash 03b2dd14f6a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-humanizer 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/metrics.py, scripts/terminology_audit.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/academic-humanizer/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Humanizer

Improve academic prose by removing observable writing defects, not by imitating imperfection or optimizing an authorship detector. Preserve the author's facts, argument, uncertainty, and disciplinary voice. This skill does not guarantee how any reader or detector will classify a text.

Portability

This skill is agent-agnostic. Its core behavior is defined by SKILL.md and references/; Python is optional and supports reproducible diagnostics.

  • Resolve <skill-dir> from the directory containing this SKILL.md.
  • Let <python> mean an available Python 3 launcher, such as python3, py -3, or python.
  • Let <input-file> mean a user-authorized local text file. Quote paths that contain spaces and use the host shell's path separator.
  • Do not assume a fixed skill root, home directory, shell, operating system, agent name, or path separator.
  • agents/openai.yaml is optional interface metadata. Core behavior does not depend on a particular agent runtime.
  • If Python is unavailable, skip the scripts and apply the same contracts directly.

Load the operating references

Read these before drafting or editing:

  1. Semantic contract for claim preservation, locked spans, deletion safety, and the internal claim ledger.
  2. Terminology contract for canonical terms, declared aliases, coined names, intentional distinctions, and the internal terminology ledger. Always load it for multi-span or manuscript-level work.
  3. Global pattern contract for the local-to-document audit, distribution map, scope limits, and whole-document repair. Always load it for multi-sentence work.
  4. Academic whitelist for protected scholarly forms in both languages.
  5. Contrast logic for false-opposition triage in English and Chinese. Always load it; this is a cross-language semantic rule.
  6. Route once by the majority language of editable prose, then read exactly one: English rules or Chinese rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 302 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 03b2dd14f6a6

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academic-humanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository dongshuyan/compass-skills (724 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 3,462 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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