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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.

ScannedSkillSource: GitHub

41,156 stars Updated 16d ago License MIT Context ≈105 tokens always loaded

86popular

Why this score

Stars

25/35

Usage (forks)

11/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 41,156 stars are split between them (about 4,116 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 86/100 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 0874a27b17a2, 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 oneavoid-ai-writing wshobson/agents · Skill	86	★ 41k	≈105 always	16d ago
avoid-ai-writing-router conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing · Skill Both about avoid and rewrite	76	★ 5.1k	≈56 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 and sounding	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/wshobson/agents/tar.gz/0874a27b17a22e2b7c2e2bcd725768e0803cad06 | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing --strip-components=5 "agents-0874a27b17a22e2b7c2e2bcd725768e0803cad06/plugins/avoid-ai-writing/skills/avoid-ai-writing"

To remove it later:

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

npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill avoid-ai-writing

Pinned to commit 0874a27b17a2 as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈105 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈1.9k 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.

Used for

Engineering › Documentation Marketing › Content & copywriting Content & media › Writing & editing

Facts

Repo: wshobson/agents
Stars: 41,156
Forks: 4,377
Last push: 2026-10-19 (16d ago)
License: MIT
Owner: wshobson · since 2011
Language: Python
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI