Agent skill · writing content · nousresearch
humanizer
Humanize text: strip AI-isms and add real voice.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific patterns and techniques for identifying and rewriting AI-generated text that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 12k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 226,679 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Humanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns Identify and remove signs of AI-generated text to make writing sound natural and human. Based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide (maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup), derived from observations of thousands of AI-generated text instances. Key insight: LLMs use statistical algorithms to guess what should come next. The result tends toward the most statistically likely completion, which is how the telltale patterns below get baked in. When to use this skill Load this skill whenever the user asks to: "humanize", "de-AI", "de-slop", or "un-ChatGPT" a piece of text rewrite something so it doesn't sound like it was written by an LLM edit a draft (blog post, essay, PR description, docs, memo, email, tweet, resume bullet) to sound more natural match their voice in writing they're producing review text for AI tells before publishing Also apply this skill to your own output when writing user-facing prose such as release notes, PR descriptions, docs, and summaries. Hermes's baseline voice already strips most of these, but a focused pass catches what slips through. How to use it in Hermes The text usually arrives one of three ways: 1. Inline. The user pastes the text into the message. Work on it in place and reply with the rewrite. 2. File. The user points at a file. Use readfile to load it, then patch or writefile to apply edits. For a markdown doc in a repo, a targeted patch per section is cleaner than rewriting the whole file. 3. Voice calibration sample. The user provides a sample of their own writing (inline or by file path) and asks you to match it. Read the sample first, then rewrite. See the Voice Calibration section below. Always show the rewrite to the user. For file edits, show a diff or the changed section instead of silently overwriting. Your task When given text to humanize: 1. Identify AI patterns. Scan for the 34 patterns listed below. 2. Rewrite problematic sections. Replace AI-isms with natural alternatives. 3. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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