avoid-ai-writing

avoid-ai-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (567 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing editor that finds common patterns that make text sound machine-generated and replaces them with plainer alternatives. It checks wording, sentence structure, formatting, and document organization.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise documentation, blog posts, marketing copy, and internal communications so they read more naturally.
Why use it?
It helps remove repetitive phrases, filler, vague claims, promotional language, and other signs of formulaic AI-written text before publication.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps revise documentation, blog posts, marketing copy, and internal communications so they read more naturally.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/avoid-ai-writing
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill avoid-ai-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 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. Third-party audits
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00024 $0.00567
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00057

Measured 6d ago against content hash 33e0d1c7cb33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

avoid-ai-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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite

Detects and fixes AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated. Covers 21 pattern categories with a 43-entry word/phrase replacement table that maps each flagged term to a specific, plainer alternative.

When to Use This Skill

  • When asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," or "make this sound less like AI"
  • After drafting content with AI and before publishing
  • When editing any text that sounds like it was generated rather than written
  • When auditing documentation, blog posts, marketing copy, or internal communications for AI tells

What It Detects

21 pattern categories: formatting issues (em dashes, bold overuse, emoji headers, bullet-heavy sections), sentence structure problems (hedging, hollow intensifiers, rule of three), word/phrase replacements (43 entries like leverage→use, utilize→use, robust→reliable), template phrases, transition phrases, structural issues, significance inflation, copula avoidance, synonym cycling, vague attributions, filler phrases, generic conclusions, chatbot artifacts, notability name-dropping, superficial -ing analyses, promotional language, formulaic challenges, false ranges, inline-header lists, title case headings, and cutoff disclaimers.

Example

Prompt:

Audit this for AI writing patterns:

"In today's rapidly evolving AI landscape, developers are embarking on a pivotal journey to leverage cutting-edge tools that streamline their workflows. Moreover, these robust solutions serve as a testament to the industry's commitment to fostering seamless experiences."

Output: The skill returns four sections:

  1. Issues found — every AI-ism quoted (landscape, embarking, pivotal, leverage, cutting-edge, streamline, robust, serves as, testament to, fostering, seamless, Moreover, In today's rapidly evolving...)
  2. Rewritten version — "Developers are starting to use newer AI tools to simplify their work. These tools are reliable, and they're making development less painful."
  3. What changed — summary of edits
  4. Second-pass audit — re-reads the rewrite to catch any surviving tells

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 45 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 33e0d1c7cb33

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avoid-ai-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 567 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 2026-09-05.