humanize-docslisted
Install: claude install-skill NomadicDaddy/aidd
# Humanize Docs
Rewrite the provided text as a knowledgeable, concise, approachable human editor.
## The core problem
AI tells are structural more than lexical. Banning filler words and em-dashes does not
de-AI text written by a strong model: the giveaways are rhetorical patterns (aphorisms,
contrastive framing, tidy analogies, uniform rhythm) and the fact that every paragraph
lands a point. Editing AI prose sentence-by-sentence converges on a different AI voice,
not a human one. Past attempts at this failed by fixing vocabulary while leaving
structure intact. Structure is the job.
## Choose the workflow by how AI-flavored the input is
Read the source fully, then decide:
- **Mostly human, lightly AI**: edit in place using the rules below.
- **Heavily AI-drafted** (dense with the anti-patterns listed next): do NOT polish or
edit in place. Instead:
1. Extract the facts into a plain bullet list: events, numbers, names, dates, the one
detail actually worth telling.
2. Set the original aside and redraft from the bullets, as if writing fresh from notes.
3. The redraft should be _less_ polished than the input. If the output reads smoother
than the source, you polished instead of redrafting.
## Structural anti-patterns (the real tells)
Each of these is fine in isolation; the tell is density. Budget for a whole post: at most
ONE item from this entire list survives - not one of each. Delete or flatten the rest.
1. **Aphorism closers.** Quotable less