Agent skill · writing content · sickn33
avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite prose for repetitive, vague, or formulaic wording while preserving meaning, evidence, and the writer's voice.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a detailed framework for identifying and replacing AI writing patterns, which enhances the AI's ability to produce human-like content.
What it needs
About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 44,571 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite Detects and fixes AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated. Covers 21 pattern categories with examples of plainer alternatives. The full upstream pattern catalog is not bundled in this AAS entrypoint; do not claim a complete 43-entry table is present. When to Use This Skill When asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," or "make this sound less like AI" After drafting content with AI and before publishing When editing any text that sounds like it was generated rather than written When auditing documentation, blog posts, marketing copy, or internal communications for AI tells What It Detects 21 pattern categories: formatting issues (em dashes, bold overuse, emoji headers, bullet-heavy sections), sentence structure problems (hedging, hollow intensifiers, rule of three), word/phrase replacements (43 entries like leverage→use, utilize→use, robust→reliable), template phrases, transition phrases, structural issues, significance inflation, copula avoidance, synonym cycling, vague attributions, filler phrases, generic conclusions, chatbot artifacts, notability name-dropping, superficial -ing analyses, promotional language, formulaic challenges, false ranges, inline-header lists, title case headings, and cutoff disclaimers. Example Prompt: Output: The skill returns four sections: 1. Issues found — every AI-ism quoted (landscape, embarking, pivotal, leverage, cutting-edge, streamline, robust, serves as, testament to, fostering, seamless, Moreover, In today's rapidly evolving...) 2. Rewritten version — "Developers are starting to use newer AI tools to simplify their work. These tools are reliable, and they're making development less painful." 3. What changed — summary of edits 4. Second-pass audit — re-reads the rewrite to catch any surviving tells Limitations These are editorial heuristics, not proof of AI authorship. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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