humanizer

humanizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NousResearch/hermes-agent. It costs 16 tokens per session (7,480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A text-editing guide for removing common signs of AI-generated writing and adding a more natural personal voice.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise blog posts, essays, documentation, emails, social posts, résumés, and other drafts before publishing or sharing.
Why use it?
It helps avoid repetitive, formulaic wording that can make drafts sound machine-written.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Hermes Agent is an AI assistant that learns from its use by creating and improving skills, retaining knowledge, searching past conversations, and adapting to its users. It is for people who want to run an agent through a terminal or messaging platforms while connecting it to different AI models and scheduled tasks.

NousResearch/hermes-agent · 240,739 stars · on GitHub

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,480 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00016 $0.07480
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.03740
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00748

Measured yesterday against content hash 887d5e3467a6, 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 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/creative/humanizer/SKILL.md · 648 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 648 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns

Identify and remove signs of AI-generated text to make writing sound natural and human. Based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide (maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup), derived from observations of thousands of AI-generated text instances.

Key insight: LLMs use statistical algorithms to guess what should come next. The result tends toward the most statistically likely completion, which is how the telltale patterns below get baked in.

When to use this skill

Load this skill whenever the user asks to:

  • "humanize", "de-AI", "de-slop", or "un-ChatGPT" a piece of text
  • rewrite something so it doesn't sound like it was written by an LLM
  • edit a draft (blog post, essay, PR description, docs, memo, email, tweet, resume bullet) to sound more natural
  • match their voice in writing they're producing
  • review text for AI tells before publishing

Also apply this skill to your own output when writing user-facing prose such as release notes, PR descriptions, docs, and summaries. Hermes's baseline voice already strips most of these, but a focused pass catches what slips through.

How to use it in Hermes

The text usually arrives one of three ways:

  1. Inline. The user pastes the text into the message. Work on it in place and reply with the rewrite.
  2. File. The user points at a file. Use read_file to load it, then patch or write_file to apply edits. For a markdown doc in a repo, a targeted patch per section is cleaner than rewriting the whole file.
  3. Voice calibration sample. The user provides a sample of their own writing (inline or by file path) and asks you to match it. Read the sample first, then rewrite. See the Voice Calibration section below.

Always show the rewrite to the user. For file edits, show a diff or the changed section instead of silently overwriting.

Your task

When given text to humanize:

  1. Identify AI patterns. Scan for the 34 patterns listed below.
  2. Rewrite problematic sections. Replace AI-isms with natural alternatives.
  3. Preserve meaning. Keep the core message intact.
  4. Maintain voice. Match the intended tone (formal, casual, technical, and so on). If a voice sample was provided, match it specifically.
  5. Add soul. Removing bad patterns is only half the job; the rewrite also needs real personality. See PERSONALITY AND SOUL below.
  6. Do a final anti-AI pass. Ask yourself: "What makes the below so obviously AI generated?" Answer briefly with any remaining tells, then revise one more time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 648 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. yesterday First seen · 648 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 887d5e3467a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

humanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (240,739 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 7,480 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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