Humanize

Re-examine a passage that reads as machine-generated and rewrite it so it reads like a person wrote it. The points stay; the AI cadence goes. Humanizing is lossless on content — it changes voice, not substance.

What to humanize

The user identifies the target — pasted text, a file path, or a passage in this conversation. If they invoke the skill without naming one, humanize the last substantial passage you wrote; needing your own output de-AI'd is the usual reason this skill is used. Ask only if the target is genuinely ambiguous.

Approach

You cannot humanize by find-and-replacing tics one at a time. Swapping "utilize" for "use" leaves the underlying cadence — the relentless symmetry, the throat-clearing, the wind-down clauses — fully intact, and the text still reads as machine-made. Do not patch. Work out what the passage actually says, then re-express it the way a person would say it out loud: uneven sentence lengths, plain verbs, one idea at a time, willing to start a sentence with And or But and to stop when the point lands.

Tics to cut

These are what make prose read as AI-generated. Cut them on sight: