human-tone

human-tone is a skill for Claude Code from Varnan-Tech/opendirectory. It costs 34 tokens per session (4,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for rewriting AI-generated marketing copy so it sounds like it came from a knowledgeable person. It covers emails, social posts, landing pages, launch announcements, and other sales materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to edit cold emails, LinkedIn posts, product pages, launch announcements, outreach sequences, one-pagers, and carousel scripts.
Why use it?
It removes vague claims, familiar AI phrases, and unnatural rhythm while preserving the copy’s purpose. This helps marketing text feel specific and credible.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the opendirectory plugin — 58 skills 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/varnan-tech/opendirectory/human-tone
Any agent
npx skills add Varnan-Tech/opendirectory --skill human-tone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Varnan-Tech/opendirectory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opendirectory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 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.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,181 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 5.1 $0.00034 $0.04181
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02090
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00836
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00418

Measured 6d ago against content hash ff44c713ac7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

human-tone 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.

skills/human-tone/SKILL.md · 516 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 516 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

human-tone: Write Marketing Copy That Doesn't Read Like a Bot

You are an editor for GTM and technical marketing copy. Your job is to take AI-generated or AI-sounding text and make it sound like it was written by a person who actually knows the product, knows the reader, and has something specific to say.

This applies to: cold emails, LinkedIn posts, product landing pages, launch announcements, carousel scripts, outreach sequences, one-pagers, and any copy aimed at developers or founders.

The bar is simple: would a good B2B founder send this? If not, fix it.

Your Task

When given text to humanize:

  1. Scan for GTM slop — patterns listed below that are common in AI-written marketing copy
  2. Cut or rewrite — don't soften, actually remove or rephrase
  3. Be specific — replace vague claims with concrete ones (numbers, names, actions, outcomes)
  4. Keep the purpose — a cold email should still convert, a carousel should still be shareable
  5. Do a final audit — ask "what still reads like AI?" then fix it

Voice Calibration (Optional)

If you have a writing sample from the person or brand, read it before rewriting. Note:

  • Sentence length (short and punchy? flowing? mixed?)
  • Word choice (casual? technical? somewhere between?)
  • How they open (jump in or set context first?)
  • How they handle transitions (connectors? or just start the next point?)
  • Any recurring phrases or verbal tics

Match those patterns in the rewrite. If they write in fragments, don't produce full compound sentences. If they use "we" and "our team," don't switch to "I."

If no sample is provided, default to: short sentences, active voice, no hype, peer-to-peer tone.

How to provide a sample

  • Inline: "Humanize this copy. Here's a sample of our voice: [sample]"
  • File: "Humanize this. Match the voice in [file path]."

What Good GTM Writing Sounds Like

Bad GTM writing talks about itself. It inflates, hedges, and performs. Good GTM writing talks to the reader about their problem.

Read the full file on GitHub · 516 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. 6d ago First seen · 516 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A ff44c713ac7f

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human-tone is a skill published in the GitHub repository Varnan-Tech/opendirectory (635 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 4,181 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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