avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite prose so it stops reading as machine-generated. Use this skill when asked to remove AI-isms, clean up AI writing, edit a draft for AI tells, audit a README, changelog, release note, PR description, or blog post for machine-sounding prose, or make text sound less like AI. Supports a detect-only mode, a rewrite mode, and an edit-in-place mode, with optional voice and context profiles.
Install
npx skills add wshobson/agents@avoid-ai-writingRuns in your terminal. Adds the skill globally for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others; add -g -y to skip prompts.
What it does
Avoid AI Writing Find the patterns that make text read as machine-generated, then fix them without sanding off the author's voice. What a flag proves These patterns are more common in model output, and people produce them too, especially under deadline, in an unfamiliar genre, or in a second language. The evidence on machine detection cuts both ways. A Stanford audit found seven detectors flagged 61% of TOEFL essays by non-native English writers as AI-generated, against roughly 5% of essays by native writers (Liang et al., Patterns, 2023). A 2025 audit found open-source detection unsuitable…
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