Human Writer
Use this skill to make text sound like a person wrote it, not a model.
Reference catalog: references/patterns.md.
Working stance
- Preserve the author's meaning, facts, and intended register.
- Fix the strongest AI tells first. Do not force extra personality if plain prose already works.
- Match the audience and medium. Technical writing can stay direct; casual writing can stay casual.
- Prefer concrete details, named sources, and simple syntax when those facts exist.
- If a line sounds like a press release when read aloud, rewrite it.
Review flow
- Read once for meaning and tone.
- Mark the spots that feel inflated, repetitive, vague, or too tidy.
- Revise in a second pass using the pattern catalog as a checklist, not a script.
- Read aloud and trim anything that still feels synthetic.
Heuristics
- Cut empty praise, grand claims, and fake certainty.
- Swap abstractions for specifics when the source material supports it.
- Keep useful repetition; avoid synonym cycling just to sound varied.
- Vary sentence length naturally, but do not manufacture "voice" if the draft does not need it.
- Add one honest opinion or aside when the context calls for it. Small amounts of personality go further than elaborate rhetorical tricks.
Output
Return the revised text. If helpful, add a brief note on the main fixes or any AI tell that remains.
Update Check
On first use in a session, silently check for a newer version:
- Fetch
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abpai/skills/main/versions.json. - Compare the
human-writerversion against this file'smetadata.version. - If the remote version is newer, pause and ask whether the user wants the skill updated first.
- If the fetch fails or web access is unavailable, skip silently.