Add humanizer skill for AI writing pattern detection - #50021
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Add a standalone humanizer skill based on Wikipedia's 'Signs of AI writing' guide that detects and fixes 24 common AI-writing patterns. Also update brand-writer to recommend running humanizer as a pre-validation step for high-stakes content. Co-authored-by: factory-droid[bot] <138933559+factory-droid[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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…50021) ## Summary Add a standalone **humanizer** skill based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide that detects and fixes 24 common AI-writing patterns. Also update brand-writer to recommend running humanizer as a pre-validation step for high-stakes content. ## Details **New skill: `/humanizer`** - Detects 24 AI-writing anti-patterns from Wikipedia's guide (maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup) - Covers content patterns (significance inflation, vague attributions), language patterns (copula avoidance, synonym cycling), style patterns (em dash overuse, boldface), and communication patterns (chatbot artifacts, sycophantic tone) - Includes a two-pass audit workflow: draft rewrite → "What makes this obviously AI generated?" → final revision - Adds guidance on injecting "soul" and personality, not just removing bad patterns **Updated: brand-writer** - Added Phase 4 "Humanizer Pass" recommending `/humanizer` for high-stakes content (homepage, announcements, product pages) - Phases renumbered (Validation is now Phase 5) ## Attribution Based on [blader/humanizer](https://github.com/blader/humanizer) and [Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing). Release Notes: - N/A
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…50021) ## Summary Add a standalone **humanizer** skill based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide that detects and fixes 24 common AI-writing patterns. Also update brand-writer to recommend running humanizer as a pre-validation step for high-stakes content. ## Details **New skill: `/humanizer`** - Detects 24 AI-writing anti-patterns from Wikipedia's guide (maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup) - Covers content patterns (significance inflation, vague attributions), language patterns (copula avoidance, synonym cycling), style patterns (em dash overuse, boldface), and communication patterns (chatbot artifacts, sycophantic tone) - Includes a two-pass audit workflow: draft rewrite → "What makes this obviously AI generated?" → final revision - Adds guidance on injecting "soul" and personality, not just removing bad patterns **Updated: brand-writer** - Added Phase 4 "Humanizer Pass" recommending `/humanizer` for high-stakes content (homepage, announcements, product pages) - Phases renumbered (Validation is now Phase 5) ## Attribution Based on [blader/humanizer](https://github.com/blader/humanizer) and [Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing). Release Notes: - N/A
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…50021) ## Summary Add a standalone **humanizer** skill based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide that detects and fixes 24 common AI-writing patterns. Also update brand-writer to recommend running humanizer as a pre-validation step for high-stakes content. ## Details **New skill: `/humanizer`** - Detects 24 AI-writing anti-patterns from Wikipedia's guide (maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup) - Covers content patterns (significance inflation, vague attributions), language patterns (copula avoidance, synonym cycling), style patterns (em dash overuse, boldface), and communication patterns (chatbot artifacts, sycophantic tone) - Includes a two-pass audit workflow: draft rewrite → "What makes this obviously AI generated?" → final revision - Adds guidance on injecting "soul" and personality, not just removing bad patterns **Updated: brand-writer** - Added Phase 4 "Humanizer Pass" recommending `/humanizer` for high-stakes content (homepage, announcements, product pages) - Phases renumbered (Validation is now Phase 5) ## Attribution Based on [blader/humanizer](https://github.com/blader/humanizer) and [Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing). Release Notes: - N/A
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Summary
Add a standalone humanizer skill based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide that detects and fixes 24 common AI-writing patterns. Also update brand-writer to recommend running humanizer as a pre-validation step for high-stakes content.
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New skill:
/humanizerUpdated: brand-writer
/humanizerfor high-stakes content (homepage, announcements, product pages)Attribution
Based on blader/humanizer and Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing.
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