A text-editing workflow that removes common AI-sounding phrases, corporate jargon, hedging, and repetitive writing patterns from a file. It creates a separate human-edited copy and records what changed.

Use it on a file when you want to replace words such as “utilize” with “use,” remove clichés and unnecessary transitions, and produce a more conversational version.

It helps make generated or overly formal text sound more direct and natural without changing the original file. It also points out vague wording and stock phrases that can make writing feel generic.

How Railly/agent-brain configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Railly/agent-brain. 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/Railly/agent-brain/main/.agents/skills/de-ai/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Railly/agent-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 495 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00495
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00198
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00099
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00049

Measured 2mo ago against content hash faa1fef32b9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

de-ai 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/de-ai/SKILL.md · 83 lines

What it actually says

De-AI-ify text: $ARGUMENTS

IMPORTANT: Be direct

Read file, create -HUMAN version, apply changes

What Gets Removed

Overused Transitions

"Moreover," "Furthermore," "Additionally," "Nevertheless"
Excessive "However" usage
"While X, Y" openings

AI Clichés

"In today's fast-paced world"
"Let's dive deep"
"Unlock your potential"
"Harness the power of"
"Game-changer"
"Cutting-edge"

Hedging Language

"It's important to note"
"It's worth mentioning"
Vague quantifiers: "various," "numerous," "myriad"

Corporate Buzzwords

"utilize" → "use"
"facilitate" → "help"
"optimize" → "improve"
"leverage" → "use"
"streamline" → "simplify"
"robust" → "strong"

Robotic Patterns

Rhetorical questions + immediate answers
Obsessive parallel structures
Always exactly three examples
"Let me explain..."

What Gets Added

Varied sentence lengths
Conversational tone
Direct statements
Confident assertions
Natural rhythm

Flow

Read original file at $ARGUMENTS
Create copy: {filename}-HUMAN.md
Apply de-AI-ification
Output change log

Example

Before (AI): "In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, it's crucial to understand that leveraging AI effectively isn't just about utilizing cutting-edge technology. It's about harnessing its transformative potential."

After (Human): "AI works best when you use it for specific tasks. Focus on what it does well: writing code, analyzing data, answering questions."

Output

Created: {filename}-HUMAN.md

Changes:
- Removed 3 AI clichés
- Simplified 5 corporate buzzwords
- Shortened 2 run-on sentences
- Added direct statements

Manual review needed:
- Line 15: needs specific example
- Line 42: vague claim, add data

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.

2mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A faa1fef32b9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

de-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository Railly/agent-brain (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 495 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Writing and docs

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