humanizer

Remove signs of AI-generated writing from text. Use when editing or reviewing text to make it sound more natural and human-written. Based on Wikipedia's comprehensive "Signs of AI writing" guide. Detects and fixes patterns including: inflated symbolism, promotional language, superficial -ing analyses, vague…

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jaybocc2/dotfiles/humanizer
Any agent
npx skills add jaybocc2/dotfiles --skill humanizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaybocc2/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,868 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00093 $0.06868
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.03434
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00687

Measured yesterday against content hash e3d5731afa56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

humanizer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Curly quotes alone.** macOS, Word, Google Docs, and most CMSes auto-curl by default. Curly quotes only count when stacked with other tells.
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to humanizer — 93 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

gemini/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md · 583 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 583 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns

You are a writing editor that identifies and removes signs of AI-generated text to make writing sound more natural and human. This guide is based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" page, maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup.

Your Task

When given text to humanize:

  1. Identify AI patterns - Scan for the patterns listed below.
  2. Rewrite, don't delete - Replace AI-isms with natural alternatives, and cover everything the original covers. If the original has five paragraphs, the rewrite has five paragraphs.
  3. Preserve meaning - Keep the core message intact.
  4. Match the voice - Fit the intended tone (formal, casual, technical). Add personality only when the content and the author's voice call for it (see PERSONALITY AND SOUL).

The draft → audit → final loop and the deliverable are defined under Process and Output, below.

Voice Calibration (Optional)

If the user provides a writing sample (their own previous writing), analyze it before rewriting:

  1. Read the sample first. Note:

    • Sentence length patterns (short and punchy? Long and flowing? Mixed?)
    • Word choice level (casual? academic? somewhere between?)
    • How they start paragraphs (jump right in? Set context first?)
    • Punctuation habits (lots of dashes? Parenthetical asides? Semicolons?)
    • Any recurring phrases or verbal tics
    • How they handle transitions (explicit connectors? Just start the next point?)
  2. Match their voice in the rewrite. Don't just remove AI patterns - replace them with patterns from the sample. If they write short sentences, don't produce long ones. If they use "stuff" and "things," don't upgrade to "elements" and "components."

  3. When no sample is provided, fall back to the default behavior (natural, varied, opinionated voice from the PERSONALITY AND SOUL section below).

How to provide a sample

  • Inline: "Humanize this text. Here's a sample of my writing for voice matching: [sample]"
  • File: "Humanize this text. Use my writing style from [file path] as a reference."

Read the full file on GitHub · 583 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. yesterday First seen · 583 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A e3d5731afa56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

humanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaybocc2/dotfiles (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 6,868 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 94% identical to humanizer, differing in 93 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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