ai-tells-scan
Use when writing tasks produce prose artifacts (READMEs, docs, PR text, tutorials, guides, posts, release notes) and need a fast surface scan for AI tells. Auto-engages on prose writing tasks; checks banned punctuation, stock vocabulary, and mechanical patterns. For the structural judgment pass on rhythm and rhetorical reflexes, use ai-tells-review. Not a replacement for voice skills like nick-voice; this removes machine fingerprints, it does not add a target voice.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 57 stars are split between them (about 6 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 48/100 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 Nov 4, 2026 at commit bb47af79ad3b, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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 oneai-tells-scan NickCrew/Claude-Cortex · Skill | 48 | ★ 57 | ≈121 always | 4mo ago |
| session-scan oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · Skill Both about scan and fingerprint | 65 | ★ 567 | ≈44 always | 19d ago |
| docs-lifecycle-scan amplifthq/openmeld · Skill Same job: documentation | 69 | ★ 1.4k | ≈46 always | 16d ago |
| skill-scan XBuilderLAB/cheat-on-skill · Skill Both about scan | 51 | ★ 196 | ≈62 always | 4mo ago |
| scan-value-chain TraderAlice/OpenAlice · Skill Same job: trading & investing | 75 | ★ 7.3k | ≈23 always | 24d ago |
| security-diff-scan openai/codex-security · Skill Both about scan | 80 | ★ 11k | ≈29 always | 16d ago |