avoid-ai-writing SKILL.md skillA

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avoid-ai-writing from ghosteken/agent-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add ghosteken/agent-harness/avoid-ai-writing@git:20260721.efafd9c

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Audit grade

A, 17 of 17 checks passed

Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

ghosteken/agent-harness

Path

archive/skills-community/avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

1

Latest version

git:20260721.efafd9c, committed Jul 21, 2026

Size

2,753 bytes

Repository stars

4

License

MIT

Audit and rewrite content to remove 21 categories of AI writing patterns with a 43-entry replacement table.

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

# 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,
…

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How to install

mdr add ghosteken/agent-harness/avoid-ai-writing@sha256:33e0d1c7cb330f0d

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_l3oz6pjrf6huhkca.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_l3oz6pjrf6huhkca)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 21, 2026.

Audit of the latest version

Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l3oz6pjrf6huhkca
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ghosteken/agent-harness/avoid-ai-writing
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/33e0d1c7cb330f0ddc218a7fe1c17f603e9ba4e22d3321295da3fa88cb7a3c82

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