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write-like-a-human

write-like-a-human is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from spencerpauly/skills-repo. It costs 79 tokens per session (762 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing skill that rewrites text to remove common signs of AI-generated prose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to humanize, tighten, or de-AI blog posts, launch emails, READMEs, and other drafts.
Why use it?
It helps when text sounds padded, overly enthusiastic, repetitive, or unlike a person’s normal writing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 27repo +1 4mo ago A scan 79 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to humanize, tighten, or de-AI blog posts, launch emails, READMEs, and other drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spencerpauly/skills-repo/write-like-a-human
View source ↗ spencerpauly/skills-repo skillsovermcp.com
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 spencerpauly/skills-repo --skill write-like-a-human
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spencerpauly/skills-repo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 762 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 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 $0.00079 $0.00762
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00305
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00076

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 22de44447003, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-like-a-human 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blader/humanizer/main/SKILL.md
skills/write-like-a-human/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write Like a Human

Rewrite text so it stops sounding like a language model wrote it. Wraps the open-source humanizer skill, which catalogs ~30 specific tells (em-dash overuse, "stands as a testament", -ing analyses, rule-of-three padding, inline-bold lists, and so on).

When to use

  • The user pastes a chunk of writing and asks to "humanize", "de-AI", "tighten", or "make this sound like me".
  • The user asks for editing on something they wrote with an LLM.
  • A blog post / launch email / README draft has tells the user wants gone.

Steps

  1. Load the reference list of patterns the first time this skill activates in a session. On Spencer's machine, read the canonical local copy (newer than upstream):

    cat ~/.agents/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md

    Otherwise pull it from upstream:

    curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blader/humanizer/main/SKILL.md

    There are ~30 patterns; you don't need to memorize them, just keep them visible while editing.

  2. Ask for a voice sample if you don't already have one. One paragraph the user wrote themselves is enough. Match cadence, vocabulary, and how they handle transitions. For content written as Spencer, the voice layer is the spencers-writing-style skill in the stack repo (.agents/skills/spencers-writing-style/) — use it instead of asking.

  3. Do a first pass removing the highest-signal tells in this order:

    1. Sycophantic openers ("Great question!", "Absolutely!").
    2. Em-dashes that should be commas, periods, or parens.
    3. "It's not just X, it's Y" / "Not only … but …" parallelisms.
    4. Inflated significance words: testament, pivotal, landscape, vibrant, tapestry, underscore.
    5. Rule-of-three lists that pad ideas into groups of three.
    6. Inline-bold vertical lists (- **Speed:** …).

  4. Do a second "audit" pass. Re-read your draft and ask out loud: "What still makes this sound AI-generated?" Answer briefly, then revise once more. This step is the difference between "cleaned up" and "actually sounds human".

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 22de44447003

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write-like-a-human is a skill published in the GitHub repository spencerpauly/skills-repo (27 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 762 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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