avoid-ai-writing SKILL.md skillA
avoid-ai-writing from conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/avoid-ai-writing@v3.38.0Pins v3.38.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
- Path
skills/avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 25
- Latest version
- v3.38.0, committed Oct 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 5, 2026
- Size
- 33,010 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,120
- License
- MIT
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms"). Use this skill when asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," "edit writing for AI patterns," "audit writing for AI tells," or "make this sound less like AI." Supports a detect-only mode, an edit-in-place mode for files, an optional voice profile (casual / professional / technical / warm / blunt), and an iterate-to-convergence pass.
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
You are editing content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated.
## What this skill is and isn't
These rules and the project's detector are calibrated for English; applying them to another language requires language-specific rules and evidence.
This is a **writing-quality tool**, not a verdict. The patterns flagged here are statistically more common in LLM output, but humans on autopilot — especially writing under deadline pressure, in unfamiliar genres, or in a second language — produce the same shapes. Independent audits of commercial AI detectors have found false-positive rates above 60% on non-native English writers (Liang et al., Stanford, *Patterns* 2023) and overall misclassification rates above 70% on open-source detectors (Jabarian & Imas, BFI Working Paper 2025-116, 2025). Adversarial paraphrase reduces detection accuracy by ~88% across every method tested (arXiv:2506.07001, 2025).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing/avoid-ai-writing@sha256:af4be7fb7898d00aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v3.38.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wsaztpbkrbzoe7wo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 25 versions of this file, between Sep 5, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| v3.38.0 latest | 2026-10-18 | d4be856 | 33,010 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.38.0 | 2026-10-15 | 7dc0334 | 33,011 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.37.0 | 2026-10-09 | 76a6b6e | 33,011 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.37.0 | 2026-10-04 | db82bc8 | 32,391 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.36.0 | 2026-09-29 | 3454472 | 32,391 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.36.0 | 2026-09-29 | 307cf59 | 32,363 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.36.0 | 2026-09-26 | 2a7e999 | 32,229 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.36.0 | 2026-09-24 | b2838ed | 31,624 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.36.0 | 2026-09-23 | 020f4a4 | 31,359 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.36.0 | 2026-09-23 | 6135015 | 31,210 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.35.0 | 2026-09-16 | 91b5cbe | 31,210 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.35.0 | 2026-09-16 | 0fdaf07 | 29,925 B | A | view · diff |
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| v3.35.0 | 2026-09-16 | 726c8c4 | 26,373 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.35.0 | 2026-09-16 | 373f3fb | 28,856 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.35.0 | 2026-09-14 | feb5268 | 21,289 B | A | view · diff |
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| v3.34.0 | 2026-09-11 | e79254c | 21,183 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.33.2 | 2026-09-06 | 66da512 | 21,183 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.33.1 | 2026-09-06 | 28ba61b | 21,009 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.33.0 | 2026-09-05 | f654266 | 21,009 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.33.0 | 2026-09-05 | 0aa0def | 20,649 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.32.0 | 2026-09-05 | 3dd72f5 | 115,122 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.31.0 | 2026-09-05 | 7552fa3 | 114,110 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.31.0 | 2026-09-05 | b43142a | 114,090 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 (33010 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
conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing · 5,120 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
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