humanize

humanize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 120 tokens per session (2,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A guide for rewriting text so it sounds naturally written by a person rather than generated by an AI system. It supports several English writing styles and checks the result against the selected voice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite existing text or create new text in a specified voice, including Oxford English, American English, Canadian English, or Indian English.
Why use it?
It helps remove stiff, repetitive, or recognisably machine-written phrasing while preserving the intended meaning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the writing plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/humanize
Any agent
npx skills add tqnonline/agent-forge --skill humanize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 humanize

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,225 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00120 $0.02225
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01112
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00222

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4c2f67ee2697, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

humanize 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 3d 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/writing/skills/humanize/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humanize: Writing Transformation System

Transform AI-generated or AI-sounding text into genuinely human prose — or generate new content that reads as unmistakably human from the first word. This is not a pattern-removal checklist. It is a four-phase transformation system that detects, calibrates, transforms, and verifies.

The test: if someone reads the output and thinks "an AI wrote this," the skill has failed.

Voice Shortcodes

Four regional English voices, each grounded in its origin and proud of it. Default is OX unless another is specified.

Code Voice One-line
OX Oxford English Senior diplomat at Chatham House — quiet authority, educated warmth
SF American English Foggy Bottom meets Sand Hill Road — strategic gravitas, builder velocity
AB Canadian English Albertan prairie directness — no-nonsense warmth, global polish
ST Indian English Tharoorian eloquence calibrated for boardroom clarity — erudite yet precise

When the user specifies a shortcode, load references/voice-profiles.md for the full voice specification. When no shortcode is given, apply OX as default.

The Four Phases

Phase 1: Detect

Scan the input for AI patterns across three levels. Consult references/pattern-library.md for the full taxonomy.

Document level — structural predictability, paragraph symmetry, formulaic section ordering, absence of genuine digressions or callbacks.

Paragraph level — cadence uniformity (sentences clustering around 18-22 words), semantic front-loading, the zoom-out reflex, transitional scaffolding.

Sentence level — the original tells: significance inflation, promotional language, -ing analyses, vague attributions, em dash overuse, rule of three, AI vocabulary words, negative parallelisms, sycophantic tone, filler phrases, excessive hedging, copula avoidance.

Quick-reference — the 10 highest-signal patterns:

  1. Significance inflation — "pivotal moment," "enduring testament," "evolving landscape"
  2. AI vocabulary cluster — additionally, crucial, delve, enhance, foster, garner, intricate, landscape, pivotal, showcase, tapestry, testament, underscore, vibrant
  3. Cadence uniformity — every sentence roughly the same length and structure
  4. Copula avoidance — "serves as," "stands as," "functions as" instead of "is"
  5. Superficial -ing phrases — "highlighting," "underscoring," "reflecting," "symbolizing"
  6. Promotional language — "groundbreaking," "nestled," "vibrant," "breathtaking," "renowned"
  7. Transitional scaffolding — mechanical "That said," "To be sure," "What's more"
  8. Epistemic cowardice — "some argue," "others contend" without taking a position
  9. Emotional flattening — everything is "interesting" or "notable" but never genuinely felt
  10. Communication artefacts — "Great question!", "I hope this helps!", "Let me know if..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 161 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 4c2f67ee2697

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humanize is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 2,225 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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