Audit and rewrite prose so it stops reading as machine-generated. Use this skill when asked to remove AI-isms, clean up AI writing, edit a draft for AI tells, audit a README, changelog, release note, PR description, or blog post for machine-sounding prose, or make text sound less like AI. Supports a detect-only mode, a rewrite mode, and an edit-in-place mode, with optional voice and context profiles.
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
Find the patterns that make text read as machine-generated, then fix them without sanding off the author's voice.
## What a flag proves
These patterns are more common in model output, and people produce them too, especially under deadline, in an unfamiliar genre, or in a second language. The evidence on machine detection cuts both ways. A Stanford audit found seven detectors flagged 61% of TOEFL essays by non-native English writers as AI-generated, against roughly 5% of essays by native writers (Liang et al., *Patterns*, 2023). A 2025 audit found open-source detection unsuitable for high-stakes use, with false-positive rates around 30% to 78% depending on the scenario, while the strongest commercial detector it tested approached zero error on medium and long passages (Jabarian and Imas, BFI Working Paper 2025-116). Adversarial paraphrasing still degrades the detectors it targets, averaging an 87.9% drop in true-positive rate at a 1% false-positive threshold, ranging from 64% to 99% by detector (arXiv:2506.07001).
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260818.d43bb81, 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.
A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7666 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 prompt-injection phrasing
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
Source
GitHub
wshobson/agents · 41,220 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p6xhq367uoqt6ulw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wshobson/agents/avoid-ai-writing
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3b0940b0014a64aaff405f367e44241095c96856cabcd0a01adf0ec33bbc1a66
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