byline: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md

humanizer is a skill for Claude Code from indianic/byline. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing revision helper for Byline drafts that rewrites prose that sounds AI-generated to match a specified persona. It keeps the meaning and required structural blocks unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise body prose, remove listed AI-writing patterns, and preserve the draft's required blocks.
Why use it?
It addresses unnatural or formulaic wording without changing the draft's message or the structural sections needed by the scorer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is indianic/byline's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on byline itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything byline configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to indianic/byline. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indianic/byline/main/.claude/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/indianic/byline

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,412 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 $0.00035 $0.01412
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00706
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00141

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9fb6f9ea5700, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humanizer

This is the full version of the REVISION PASS printed at the bottom of every build_writing_brief output. The brief carries a compressed, five-line form of it and tells the writer to come here by name for the definitions. This file is the one place the five groups are spelled out in full — do not re-derive them, and do not shorten them back into the brief; one rule, one definition.

The five groups

Read the whole draft once, start to finish, before touching anything. Then mark every tell you find, grouped below in the order you act on them.

1. Staging instead of stating. The sentence spends its first half setting up a rhetorical move instead of just making the claim — "It's not just a tool, it's a platform," a one-line paragraph that exists purely for cadence, a saying that sounds deep on first read and empty on the second ("at its core," "make no mistake"), a run-up before the actual point, or an argument answering an objection nobody in the piece raised ("To be clear, this isn't about...").

2. Rhythm by rule. The prose follows a pattern instead of a reason to be shaped that way — three-item lists reached for out of habit rather than because the list has three things in it, three sentences in a row opening with the same word, a dash used as the universal connector between any two clauses instead of a period, a comma, or a colon, two hedges stacked on one claim ("could potentially"), a hyphenated compound in every other sentence, or a passive construction that hides who did the thing ("mistakes were made" instead of naming who made them).

3. Inflation. A plain fact dressed in language sized for something bigger — "pivotal," "landscape," "testament," "crucial" applied to an ordinary detail, a routine event framed as a turning point, "associated with" standing in for the actual mechanism ("caused," "delayed," "replaced"), an expert who is never named, or "serves as"/"stands as"/"boasts" used in place of a plain "is" or "has."

4. Formatting by rule. Visual structure applied as decoration rather than to carry meaning — bold text scattered through body paragraphs instead of reserved for the summary block and the callout label, a heading in Title Case where the rest of the piece is not, or a heading whose very next sentence just restates it instead of answering it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 9fb6f9ea5700

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humanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository indianic/byline (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,412 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 2026-09-11.

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