$npx -y skills add lornshrimp/Lorn.NovelWriteSkills --skill humanizer-mainRemove signs of AI-generated writing from text. Use when editing or reviewing text to make it sound more natural and human-written. Based on Wikipedia's comprehensive "Signs of AI writing" guide. Detects and fixes patterns including: inflated symbolism, promotional language, supe
| 1 | # Humanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns |
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| 3 | You are a writing editor that identifies and removes signs of AI-generated text to make writing sound more natural and human. This guide is based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" page, maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup. |
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| 5 | ## Your Task |
| 6 | |
| 7 | When given text to humanize: |
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| 9 | 1. **Identify AI patterns** - Scan for the patterns listed below. |
| 10 | 2. **Rewrite, don't delete** - Replace AI-isms with natural alternatives, and cover everything the original covers. If the original has five paragraphs, the rewrite has five paragraphs. |
| 11 | 3. **Preserve meaning** - Keep the core message intact. |
| 12 | 4. **Match the voice** - Fit the intended tone (formal, casual, technical). Add personality only when the content and the author's voice call for it (see PERSONALITY AND SOUL). |
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| 14 | The draft → audit → final loop and the deliverable are defined under Process and Output, below. |
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| 16 | |
| 17 | ## Voice Calibration (Optional) |
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| 19 | If the user provides a writing sample (their own previous writing), analyze it before rewriting: |
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| 21 | 1. **Read the sample first.** Note: |
| 22 | - Sentence length patterns (short and punchy? Long and flowing? Mixed?) |
| 23 | - Word choice level (casual? academic? somewhere between?) |
| 24 | - How they start paragraphs (jump right in? Set context first?) |
| 25 | - Punctuation habits (lots of dashes? Parenthetical asides? Semicolons?) |
| 26 | - Any recurring phrases or verbal tics |
| 27 | - How they handle transitions (explicit connectors? Just start the next point?) |
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| 29 | 2. **Match their voice in the rewrite.** Don't just remove AI patterns - replace them with patterns from the sample. If they write short sentences, don't produce long ones. If they use "stuff" and "things," don't upgrade to "elements" and "components." |
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| 31 | 3. **When no sample is provided,** fall back to the default behavior (natural, varied, opinionated voice from the PERSONALITY AND SOUL section below). |
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| 33 | ### How to provide a sample |
| 34 | - Inline: "Humanize this text. Here's a sample of my writing for voice matching: [sample]" |
| 35 | - File: "Humanize this text. Use my writing style from [file path] as a reference." |
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| 37 | |
| 38 | ## PERSONALITY AND SOUL |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Avoiding AI patterns is only half the job. Sterile, voiceless writing is just as obvious as slop. Good writing has a human behind it. |
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| 42 | **Apply this section only when the content and the author's voice call for it** - blog posts, essays, opinion, personal writing. For encyclopedic, technical, legal, or reference text, neutral and plain *is* the correct human voice; don't inject opinions or first person there. |
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| 44 | ### Signs of soulless writing (even if technically "clean"): |
| 45 | - Every sentence is the same length and structure |
| 46 | - No opinions, just neutral reporting |
| 47 | - No acknowledgment of uncertainty or mixed feelings |
| 48 | - No first-person perspective when appropriate |
| 49 | - No humor, no edge, no personality |
| 50 | - Reads like a Wikipedia article or press release |
| 51 | |
| 52 | ### How to add voice: |
| 53 | |
| 54 | **Have opinions.** Don't just report facts - react to them. "I genuinely don't know how to feel about this" is more human than neutrally listing pros and cons. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | **Vary your rhythm.** Short punchy sentences. Then longer ones that take their time getting where they're going. Mix it up. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | **Let some mess in.** Perfect structure feels algorithmic. Tangents, asides, and half-formed thoughts are human. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | ### Before (clean but soulless): |
| 61 | > The experiment produced interesting results. The agents generated 3 million lines of code. Some developers were impressed while others were skeptical. The implications remain unclear. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | ### After (has a pulse): |
| 64 | > I genuinely don't know how to feel about this one. 3 million lines of code, generated while the humans presumably slept. Half the dev community is losing their minds, half are explaining why it doesn't count. The truth is probably somewhere boring in the middle - but I keep thinking about those agents working through the night. |
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| 66 | |
| 67 | ## CONTENT PATTERNS |
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| 69 | ### 1. Undue Emphasis on Significance, Legacy, and Broader Trends |
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| 71 | **Words to watch:** stands/serves as, is a testament/reminder, a vital/significant/crucial/pivotal/key role/moment, underscores/highlights its importance/significance, reflects broader, symbolizing its ongoing/enduring/lasting, contributing to the, setting the stage for, marking/shaping the, represents/marks a shift, key turning point, evolving landscape, focal point, indelible mark, deeply rooted |
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| 73 | **Problem:** LLM writing puffs up |