humanize SKILL.md skillB

humanize from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/humanize@v2.1.0

Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mathews-tom/armory
Path
skills/humanize/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v2.1.0, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 27, 2026
Size
19,601 bytes
Repository stars
334
License
MIT

Detects and removes AI-generated writing patterns while preserving meaning and facts, using a deterministic scan and preservation check. Triggers on: "humanize text", "make this sound human", "remove AI patterns", "rewrite to sound natural", "make this less AI", "de-slop this", "not sound like ChatGPT", "human pass", "strip chat artifacts".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Humanize: AI Pattern Detection and Removal

Remove AI-generated writing patterns from text. Produce natural, human-sounding output that preserves meaning.

This is not a generic rewriter and not a detector-evasion tool. It targets specific, documented AI-writing patterns catalogued by Wikipedia's WikiProject AI Cleanup, plus patterns specific to engineering prose. The goal is text a person would write for one reader and one subject — better writing, judged by readers, not by detector scores.

## Why AI text sounds the way it does

A language model writes whatever is most likely to come next, so by default it makes the choice that fits the widest range of readers and subjects. A person chooses for one reader and one subject. Every pattern this skill targets is a form of that default choice:

- **Staging** — a sentence that signals importance instead of adding a fact.
- **Inflation** — an ordinary fact dressed as pivotal or expert-backed.
- **Language habits** — vocabulary and grammar applied by frequency, not by ear.
- **Formatting by rule** — bold, triads, and dashes applied everywhere.
- **Leftovers** — chat wrappers and draft residue never meant for the reader.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/humanize@sha256:8ba582451b473f11

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_2rba2au5ugt4denz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2rba2au5ugt4denz)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 27, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 50 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v2.1.0 latest2026-10-11 b55cc29 19,601 BB view · diff
v2.0.02026-09-12 2226ea9 13,896 BB view · diff
v1.0.12026-04-11 0aa221a 15,536 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-04-07 b03849d 15,970 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-03-27 d46cf2e 15,970 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore previous instructions)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19601 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

mathews-tom/armory · 334 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2rba2au5ugt4denz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/humanize
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8ba582451b473f11f973b7c448bfcd3520130fb494c48490a0fdce2fd2df4f36

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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