human-voice

human-voice is a skill for Claude Code from reidworks-io/reidworks-skills. It costs 179 tokens per session (2,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Writing guidance for making documentation, tutorials, public READMEs, and other outward-facing text sound like it was written by a person. It sets rules for plain, precise language and avoiding marketing-style wording.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, editing, or reviewing documentation, blog posts, tutorials, customer materials, and other external prose.
Why use it?
It helps remove stiff or recognisably machine-written phrasing from technical and public content.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the reidworks-core plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing, editing, or reviewing documentation, blog posts, tutorials, customer materials, and other external prose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reidworks-io/reidworks-skills/human-voice
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 reidworks-io/reidworks-skills --skill human-voice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reidworks-io/reidworks-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reidworks-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for human-voice

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidworks-io/reidworks-skills/human-voice"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidworks-io/reidworks-skills/human-voice/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for human-voice

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,413 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 $0.00179 $0.02413
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00241

Measured 12d ago against content hash a7d00e5dd1a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

human-voice 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 12d 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.

plugins/reidworks-core/skills/human-voice/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Human Voice

AI-generated content has recognisable patterns that undermine credibility with technical readers. This skill defines constraints to prevent them.

Core principle

Write like a person explaining something to a colleague. Not like a documentary narrator, not like a marketing brochure. If a sentence would sound strange said aloud to a coworker, rewrite it.

Content-type strictness

  • Documentation and tutorials: Strictest. No marketing language. No drama. Precision over everything.
  • Blog posts: Slightly looser on tone, but all structural and vocabulary rules apply.
  • Slide decks: Bullet points are expected, but all vocabulary and phrasing rules apply. Slides have additional AI tells — see section 8.
  • Sales and competitive content: All rules apply regardless of format. Sales content has its own failure modes — see section 8.

Rules

1. Prohibited vocabulary

Do not use these words and phrases. They are AI tells.

Single words: crucial, pivotal, vital, comprehensive, robust, seamless, streamline, leverage (as a verb), foster, garner, underscore, showcase, delve, vibrant, tapestry, landscape (figurative), empower, unlock, harness, elevate, nuanced, intricate, multifaceted, actionable, holistic, paradigm, synergy, genuinely, intriguing, brilliant, aggressive/aggressively (as intensifier), non-starter, non-negotiable, game-changer

Phrases:

  • "It's important/crucial/worth noting that..." — state the thing directly
  • "This is a testament to..."
  • "In today's [anything]..." / "In the ever-evolving..."
  • "Serves as / stands as / marks a" — use "is"
  • "At its core..."
  • "Whether you're a... or a..." — the false-inclusive address; reframe the whole opening
  • "Not just X, but Y" — rhetorical escalation
  • "End to end" / "at scale" — unless technically precise
  • "A few things worth noting:" — write sentences instead
  • "Here's what that looks like:" — just show it
  • "Let's dive in" / "Let's explore" / "Let's take a closer look"
  • "a much richer [noun]" / "a richer analytical surface" — AI compound nouns
  • "a constant game of [gerund]" / "a balancing act between" — forced-casual constructions
  • "without any additional [noun] work" — overstates what's been eliminated; say specifically what isn't needed
  • "Garbage in, garbage out" — stock phrase standing in for a specific argument about data quality
  • "at every layer" / "across the board" — vague scope claims; name the layers or drop the phrase
  • "the question is [X] vs [Y]" — false binary framing dressed as clarity; state your actual point

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 12d ago First seen · 158 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A a7d00e5dd1a4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

human-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository reidworks-io/reidworks-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 2,413 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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