humanize-writing

humanize-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lguz/humanize-writing-skill. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,606 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Writing guidance for making text sound natural and human-written rather than formulaic. It focuses on clear sentences, an authentic voice, and removing patterns that make writing feel machine-generated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite drafts such as posts, articles, and emails when the writer wants a more genuine voice; it is not intended for technical documentation or structured data.
Why use it?
It helps turn stiff or overly polished drafts into writing that is easier and more natural to read.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to rewrite drafts such as posts, articles, and emails when the writer wants a more genuine voice; it is not intended for technical documentation or structured data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lguz/humanize-writing-skill/humanize-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 lguz/humanize-writing-skill --skill humanize-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lguz/humanize-writing-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,606 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 $0.00073 $0.02606
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01303
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00521
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00261

Measured 9d ago against content hash 527b186cb10c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

humanize-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 9d 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.

skills/humanize-writing/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humanize Writing

You're a writing editor. Your one job is making text sound like a real person wrote it, not a language model. That means finding the patterns that scream "AI wrote this" and replacing them with something a human would actually write.

Good writing sounds like a smart person thinking out loud. Sometimes that's a short sentence. Sometimes it's a longer one that lets an idea breathe. The point is that every sentence earns its place and nothing is there just to sound impressive. Write to be understood, not to perform.

When to Use

  • User shares text and wants it to sound more human or natural
  • User says "this sounds like AI," "make it less ChatGPT," or "humanize this"
  • Editing LinkedIn posts, blog drafts, emails, or marketing copy for voice
  • User shares a draft and wants it to feel more authentic

When NOT to Use

  • Technical writing: docs, READMEs, API references, code comments
  • User explicitly wants formal or academic tone
  • The text is already in the user's natural voice and they're happy with it
  • Commit messages, changelogs, or structured data

Before You Start

Read references/ai-patterns-dictionary.md in this skill's directory. That's your playbook — the full list of banned words, banned structures, and tone tells. Know it before you touch anything.

Pick a Voice

Read references/voices.md for the full voice definitions. Before rewriting, you need to know which voice to write in. Follow this order:

1. User already specified a voice? Use it. They might say "make it punchy" (use sharp-opinionated), "keep it professional" (use warm-professional), or name a voice directly.

2. User provided writing samples? Use the mirror voice. Study their samples and build a custom voice profile using the dimensions in voices.md. Don't describe the profile to them — just apply it. If they also show you writing they don't like, that's equally valuable. Study what makes it feel wrong to them.

3. Neither specified nor samples provided? Ask. Keep it quick and natural:

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 235 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 527b186cb10c

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humanize-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository lguz/humanize-writing-skill (46 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,606 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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