humanize-textlisted

# humanize-text AI-written prose has a recognizable fingerprint. The loudest tell is the em dash (—), which humans rarely type but models emit constantly, followed by smart quotes and a handful of stock phrases. This skill removes those signatures while preserving the writer's meaning and voice. Apply it as the **last pass** over any prose you produce for the user to send or publish. The goal is text that reads as if a competent person typed it in a normal editor, not text that has been scrubbed into blandness. Fix the tells; keep the substance. ## 1. Punctuation and Unicode (the mechanical, high-signal fixes) These are the strongest AI markers. Replace them thoughtfully — choose the punctuation a human would actually have used, don't just delete. - **Em dash `—`**: rewrite, don't blank out. Pick by role: - parenthetical aside → wrap in commas, or use parentheses - a pause before a payoff/explanation → colon - two independent clauses joined → split into two sentences, or use a semicolon - Example: `We shipped it — finally.` → `We shipped it, finally.` - Example: `Three services — auth, billing, search — went down.` → `Three services (auth, billing, search) went down.` - **En dash `–`**: - number/date/page ranges → a hyphen, or the word "to" (`2019–2023` → `2019 to 2023`) - used as a dash → treat like an em dash above - **Smart/curly quotes** `“ ” ‘ ’` → straight `"` and `'`. - **Ellipsis `…`** → three periods `...`, or cut it (trailing ellipses read as AI h