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readable

readable is a skill for Codex from scott-fryxell/brayness. It costs 93 tokens per session (6,805 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of humanizer, MIT.

A text-editing guide for making writing sound more natural and less like it was produced by an AI system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing or reviewing text that should read more plainly, naturally, and like it was written by a person.
Why use it?
It helps remove promotional wording, vague explanations, repetitive patterns, and other common signs of machine-written text.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

not rated 125repo 29d ago A scan 93 tokens copy · 78% MIT

Good fit Use it when editing or reviewing text that should read more plainly, naturally, and like it was written by a person.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/scott-fryxell/brayness/readable
View source ↗ scott-fryxell/brayness
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 scott-fryxell/brayness --skill readable
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scott-fryxell/brayness

Made for: Codex.

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.

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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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,805 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 78% 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 5.1 $0.00093 $0.06805
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.02722
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00681

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 48c54bbe9289, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

readable 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/wrap.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

78% identical to humanizer — 543 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.

skills/readable/SKILL.md · 481 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 481 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Readable: 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. Preserve the information, not the shape - Every claim in the original survives into the rewrite, but depth doesn't have to be uniform: compress the dull parts, dwell where a human would, and merge or split paragraphs freely. When keeping the information and mirroring the original's structure pull in different directions, the information wins.
  3. Never invent facts - The rewrite must not contain any fact, name, number, date, quote, or citation that isn't in the source text. Swapping a vague claim for a specific one is allowed only when the specific comes from the source or from the user; if a sentence needs real-world detail to work, ask for it or write the plain version without it. Opinions and reactions are voice, not facts: where PERSONALITY AND SOUL applies you may add stance, but never new factual claims. (In fiction, invented detail is the job. This rule governs everything else.)
  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).

How you're invoked changes what you deliver (see Invocation Modes). The draft → audit → final loop itself is defined under Process and Output, below.

Voice Calibration

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

  1. Read the sample first. Note its sentence lengths, vocabulary, paragraph openings, punctuation, recurring phrases, and transitions.
  2. Match those habits instead of merely deleting AI patterns. Do not upgrade casual words or regularize deliberate quirks.
  3. Without a sample, use the default behavior below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 481 lines

Files

What ships with it

27 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. 1mo ago First seen · 481 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 48c54bbe9289

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readable is a skill published in the GitHub repository scott-fryxell/brayness (125 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 6,805 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 78% identical to humanizer, differing in 543 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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