ai-writing-detox

ai-writing-detox is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing and editing guide for removing patterns commonly associated with AI-generated text. It applies to articles, documentation, reports, press releases, and social posts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or revise AI-assisted writing before publication. It identifies words and styles to replace with clearer, more specific language.
Why use it?
It helps writing sound more natural and reduces wording that can distract readers or weaken their trust.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the journalism-core plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review or revise AI-assisted writing before publication. It identifies words and styles to replace with clearer, more specific language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/ai-writing-detox
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 jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill ai-writing-detox
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install journalism-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,992 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 $0.00031 $0.01992
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00996
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00199

Measured 13d ago against content hash f64ace780fab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-writing-detox 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 13d 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.

journalism-core/skills/ai-writing-detox/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI writing detox

Good writing is invisible. If readers notice the writing style, it's distracting from the content. AI patterns are noticeable, they break trust.

When to use

  • Writing or editing any journalism content
  • Creating press releases or media advisories
  • Drafting documentation or reports
  • Writing social media posts
  • Reviewing any AI-assisted text before publication

Banned words (delete or replace)

Word Why it's bad Alternative
delve AI signature word explore, examine, look at
realm Pretentious area, field
tapestry Purple prose (delete entirely)
landscape Corporate speak situation, environment
leverage Jargon use
utilize Jargon use
robust Meaningless strong, reliable
seamless Almost always false smooth, easy
comprehensive Rarely necessary full, complete
cutting-edge Cliché modern, new
holistic Corporate complete, full
synergy Corporate (delete, rewrite)
paradigm Overused model, approach
empower Vague (be specific about what capability)
innovative Empty praise (describe what's new)
transformative Hyperbolic changed, improved
sophisticated Vague filler advanced, or describe what's complex
leveraging Corporate jargon using
ecosystem Overused metaphor system, environment
rich (as modifier) (delete or be specific)
over (for quantity) AP rule more than

Banned phrases

Throat-clearing (delete entirely)

  • "It's important to note that..."
  • "In today's [X] landscape..."
  • "Let's dive/delve into..."
  • "Without further ado..."
  • "In this article, we will..."
  • "It's worth mentioning that..."
  • "It goes without saying..."
  • "As we all know..."

Empty hedges

  • "To be fair..." / "To be honest..."
  • "At the end of the day..."
  • "When it comes to..."
  • "In terms of..."
  • "With respect to..."

AI enthusiasm

  • "This is a game-changer"
  • "...and that's a good thing!"
  • "Here's the thing:"
  • "...and that's okay!"
  • "...and I'm here for it"

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 13d ago First seen · 266 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A f64ace780fab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-writing-detox is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (391 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,992 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 2026-08-30.

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