filter-tells SKILL.md skillA
filter-tells from petar-djukic/writing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- petar-djukic/writing-skills
- Path
.github/skills/filter-tells/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260901.b53aa12, committed Sep 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 21, 2026
- Size
- 31,920 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Detect and fix AI writing patterns recursively. Use when: reviewing text for AI tells, cleaning AI-generated drafts, checking for CoT leakage, measuring text perplexity and burstiness, making text sound human, fixing opening diversity. Triggers: filter-tells, ai detection, ai writing, perplexity, burstiness, CoT leakage, humanize text, opening diversity, sentence starts.
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What the file says
# filter-tells: AI Writing Detection and Correction
Detects mechanically, removes editorially, and hands voice restoration to
`match-voice`. Three detection layers — lexical, structural, semantic — flag
passages; Claude then rewrites them under the convergence rules below, and
re-scans. There is no deterministic strip: a banned word is a one-word swap,
but a cadence tell needs the sentence rewritten, and that is judgment.
Filtering leaves prose that is *neutral* — no tells, but no voice either. When
the passage has to sound like the author, that is `match-voice`'s job.
*Renamed from `de-ai` (2026-07). The old name implied the skill only removed;
it detects, and the removal is editorial.*
## Standing Warning: Scripts Are Blind to Rhetorical Patterns
The two scripts (`detect-lexical.sh`, `detect-structural.py`) measure surface metrics only — banned words, opening diversity, sentence length variance, dash density. They **cannot** detect the rhetorical patterns that constitute most of the AI signal in real prose:
- Declarative pairs ("X is Y. Z is W.")
- Definition-by-enumeration ("X extends in two ways")
- Meta-narrative bridges ("The analogy breaks in one place")
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How to install
mdr add petar-djukic/writing-skills/filter-tells@sha256:4e620dadf70bbba7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.b53aa12, 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.
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| git:20260901.b53aa12 latest | 2026-09-01 | b53aa12 | 31,920 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260821.e927116 | 2026-08-21 | e927116 | 29,408 B | A | view |
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Source
petar-djukic/writing-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
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