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avoid-ai-writing

Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms"). Use this skill when asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," "edit writing for AI patterns," "audit writing for AI tells," or "make this sound less like AI." Supports a detect-only mode, an edit-in-place mode for files, an optional voice profile (casual / professional / technical / warm / blunt), and an iterate-to-convergence pass.

Scanned · 1 to knowSkillSource: GitHub

5,109 stars +139 this week Updated 16d ago License MIT Context ≈107 tokens always loaded

76popular

Why this score

Stars

19/35

Usage (forks)

7/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 9 skills, so its 5,109 stars are split between them (about 568 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 76/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 7009955c3b41, first 300 source files (it's a large repo), with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

What its code does:

Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.bin/avoid-ai-writing-gate.js:4, evals/rewrite/reference-loading-205.md:23, scripts/check-pattern-count.sh:136 and 10 more

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.

Name	Score	Stars	Context	Updated
This oneavoid-ai-writing conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing · Skill	76	★ 5.1k	≈107 always	16d ago
avoid-ai-design funboy322/avoid-ai-design · Skill Both about avoid and less	64	★ 118	≈154 always	1mo ago
anti-ai-writing-style ama-zingco/anti-ai-writing-skill · Skill Both about avoid	56	★ 36	≈38 always	3mo ago
avoid-feature-creep waynesutton/builder-skills · Skill Both about avoid and asked	59	★ 406	≈85 always	1mo ago
anti-ai-writing avectats7/anti-ai-writing · Plugin Both about remove and rewrite	58	★ 6	not measured	4d ago

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/tar.gz/7009955c3b41433e091ab46401dea033644bdeba | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing --strip-components=1

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing

npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing

Pinned to commit 7009955c3b41 as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈107 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈8.3k tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Facts

Repo: conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Stars: 5,109
Forks: 470
Last push: 2026-10-19 (16d ago)
License: MIT
Owner: conorbronsdon · since 2022
Language: JavaScript
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI