academic-humanizer

academic-humanizer is a skill for Codex from Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing editor for academic text in Chinese or English that removes generic, templated, or AI-like phrasing while preserving the author's research. It keeps scientific claims, numbers, equations, citations, limitations, and uncertainty unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise papers, abstracts, theses, rebuttals, or reviewer responses and to check that important content stayed unchanged.
Why use it?
It helps a paper sound less mechanical without changing what the research says. It does not certify that writing was produced by a human or bypass disclosure rules.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to revise papers, abstracts, theses, rebuttals, or reviewer responses and to check that important content stayed unchanged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yila-ai/awesome-research-skills/academic-humanizer
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 Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills --skill academic-humanizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,340 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
  • 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 $0.00078 $0.01340
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00670
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00134

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7fa73c713b80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-humanizer 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_invariants.py), 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.

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/academic-humanizer/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Humanizer

Remove the template voice, not the scholarship. Make academic prose more specific, natural, and recognizably the author's while preserving the research exactly.

This Skill improves writing quality. It does not certify that text is human-written, optimize for an AI detector, or remove an author's obligation to disclose AI assistance under the relevant journal, institution, or funder policy.

Load only what is needed

  • Always read references/preservation-and-evidence.md, references/pattern-catalog.md, and references/output-contract.md.
  • Read references/voice-calibration.md only when the author provides writing samples or explicitly asks to match their voice.
  • When source and revision are available as local text, use scripts/check_invariants.py as a deterministic first check. A passing result never replaces the semantic audit.

Use this Skill when

The user asks to:

  • remove “AI味”, AI-like phrasing, template language, or generic LLM prose from academic text;
  • make a paper sound less mechanical, less inflated, or more like the author;
  • audit an abstract, paper section, thesis passage, rebuttal, or reviewer response for recurring AI-writing patterns;
  • calibrate a draft against the author's prior academic writing.

For ordinary Chinese-to-English translation, grammar correction, or general publication polishing without a de-templating or voice-matching goal, sci-ssci-polishing is the better entry point.

Inputs

Required:

  • the passage or document to audit or revise.

Useful but optional:

  • language, field, section type, and target venue;
  • one or more genuine writing samples from the author;
  • protected terminology or phrases;
  • desired intensity: audit only, standard, or strong.

Do not block on optional context. Without author samples, use a neutral, precise, venue-appropriate academic voice and state that personal voice matching was not performed.

Workflow

1. Classify the task

Identify:

  • language: Chinese, English, or mixed;
  • scope: passage, paragraph set, section, or full document;
  • rhetorical function: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, literature review, rebuttal, or mixed;
  • requested mode: audit only, standard rewrite, strong rewrite, or voice matching.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 7d ago First seen · 139 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 7fa73c713b80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-humanizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills (119 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,340 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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