humanizer_skill

Overview

This skill humanizes text by removing AI writing patterns and making prose sound natural, specific, and human-driven. It targets 24 common AI telltales from Wikipedia’s Signs of AI writing guide and rewrites content to preserve meaning while restoring voice. Use it to de-AI copy, add personality, and stop text from reading like a machine.

How this skill works

The skill scans input for 24 identifiable AI patterns (inflated language, promotional tone, filler phrases, em-dash overuse, formulaic structure, etc.). It rewrites flagged passages, replacing AI-isms with concise, varied, and voice-forward alternatives while keeping the original message intact. The output matches the requested tone (formal, casual, technical) and adds human touches—opinions, rhythm, and specific detail—where appropriate.

When to use it

• You have AI-generated or edited text that reads sterile or formulaic.
• Marketing copy, docs, or blog posts that sound like a press release or robot.
• To remove filler phrases, hedging, and inflated vocabulary from content.
• Before publishing: make content feel authored by a real person.
• When you want the same facts but with clearer, more engaging language.

Best practices

• Give a target tone and audience (e.g., casual dev blog, formal report).
• Provide any key phrases or facts that must remain unchanged.
• Ask for sentence-level preservation if you need minimal edits.
• Prefer short iterative passes: humanize, review, then refine voice.
• Use examples of desired voice when needing a strong personality shift.

Example use cases

• Turn AI-dense product descriptions into conversational copy for customers.
• Rewrite internal docs so engineers can actually read and act on them.
• Make a PR statement sound authentic rather than overly polished.
• Humanize blog drafts produced by an assistant before publication.
• Strip AI filler from user-facing error messages or onboarding text.