humanize SKILL.md skillA
humanize from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/humanize@git:20260507.71b2c7ePins git:20260507.71b2c7e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
skills/humanize/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260507.71b2c7e, committed May 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 30, 2026
- Size
- 8,355 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Makes a draft read like a real human typed it — adds asymmetry, light contractions, and (rarely) one safe typo. Use only when a draft is technically correct but reads polished beyond plausibility, when the user wants to "rough it up," "make it more human," or "less AI-clean." Does NOT run on high-stakes writing (see "When NOT to humanize"). Triggers on "humanize," "rough it up," "less polished," "more casual," "sounds too clean.".
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
Source: `points/ai-writing-rules.md` and the centaur-writer thesis. The point of this skill is the inverse of every other skill in this repo — most of them sharpen, this one *de-sharpens* deliberately.
**Operator note (2026-05-07):** Dialed back from the original aggressive setting (too many typos and missing words landed in finals), then re-tuned for a middle ground: a few safe roughening moves are still welcome even in short pieces. The bias is "fewer types of typos, but still some texture" — not "skip everything."
## The premise
A perfect email is suspicious. Real people:
- Use contractions inconsistently ("it's" once, "it is" once in the same email — humans aren't consistent)
- Vary sentence punctuation (sometimes a period where a comma would be cleaner)
- Use parentheses inconsistently
- Repeat a word from the previous sentence sometimes (real attention drift)
A model output is *too clean*. This skill leaves a small amount of real-person residue in. Note: residue, not damage. Missing required words and unsafe typos are damage; do not introduce them.
## Two modes
### Mode 1 — Shorten + roughen (default)
Take the draft and:
1. Cut 10–20% of the words
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/humanize@sha256:4a014d6476334a1eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260507.71b2c7e, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rb6iwayopvwwjkvb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 30, 2026 and May 7, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260507.71b2c7e latest | 2026-05-07 | 71b2c7e | 8,355 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260507.fa1bb02 | 2026-05-07 | fa1bb02 | 6,685 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.9e426ac | 2026-05-06 | 9e426ac | 5,304 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260430.a05be62 | 2026-04-30 | a05be62 | 5,301 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8355 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
kalyvask/winning-writing · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rb6iwayopvwwjkvb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/humanize GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4a014d6476334a1ed62a6927e0407a5c642716f15973baf96606422fb72ccc6f
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