/avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite content to remove 21 categories of AI writing patterns with a 43-entry replacement table
One skill from agentic-awesome-skills.
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$ npx -y skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill avoid-ai-writing --agent claude-codeInstalls just this skill. Get the whole plugin for auto-invocation.
How it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/avoid-ai-writing
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Audit and rewrite content to remove 21 categories of AI writing patterns with a 43-entry replacement table
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Stars43,758
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LanguagePython
LicenseMIT
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SKILL.md
avoid-ai-writing.SKILL.md
--- name: avoid-ai-writing description: "Audit and rewrite content to remove 21 categories of AI writing patterns with a 43-entry replacement table" risk: none source: https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing date_added: "2026-03-06" --- # Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite Detects and fixes AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated. Covers 21 pattern categories with a 43-entry word/phrase replacement table that maps each flagged term to a specific, plainer alternative. ## When to Use This Skill - When asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," or "make this sound less like AI" - After drafting content with AI and before publishing - When editing any text that sounds like it was generated rather than written - When auditing documentation, blog posts, marketing copy, or internal communications for AI tells ## What It Detects **21 pattern categories:** formatting issues (em dashes, bold overuse, emoji headers, bullet-heavy sections), sentence structure problems (hedging, hollow intensifiers, rule of three), word/phrase replacements (43 entries like leverage→use, utilize→use, robust→reliable), template phrases, transition phrases, structural issues, significance inflation, copula avoidance, synonym cycling, vague attributions, filler phrases, generic conclusions, chatbot artifacts, notability name-dropping, superficial -ing analyses, promotional language, formulaic challenges, false ranges, inline-header lists, title case headings, and cutoff disclaimers.
