human-writer

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

1. Read once for meaning and tone.
2. Mark the spots that feel inflated, repetitive, vague, or too tidy.
3. Revise in a second pass using the pattern catalog as a checklist, not a script.
4. 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:

1. Fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abpai/skills/main/versions.json.
2. Compare the human-writer version against this file's metadata.version.
3. If the remote version is newer, pause and ask whether the user wants the skill updated first.
4. If the fetch fails or web access is unavailable, skip silently.