humanize

# Humanize Text Skill Transforms AI-generated or flat text into output that mirrors the statistical and stylistic fingerprint of human writing. Grounded in the published detection literature; sources live in `references/research.md` (background only, not needed during a rewrite). --- ## Hard rules (read first, enforce last) These seven fail more often than everything else combined, because the model that wrote the draft is the model checking it. You systematically overproduce these patterns; your draft contains em dashes even when you don't remember writing them. Treat "my draft is probably clean" as false by default. 1. **Em dashes:** at most one per 300 words of output. Under 300 words, zero. 2. **Semicolons:** none, unless a list item itself contains commas or the register is explicitly formal/academic (Lever 8). 3. **Straight quotes and apostrophes only.** Never curly. Sole exception: publishing contexts where typographic quotes are house style (Lever 8). 4. **Banned vocabulary** (full list at end of this skill). Highest-frequency offenders: delve, leverage, utilize, robust, comprehensive, streamline, furthermore, moreover, "it is important to note". 5. **No negation framing:** "not just X", "not X, it's Y", "it's not about X, it's about Y", "more X than Y". Say what the thing IS. Poetic forms count: "isn't proof you failed, it's proof you showed up" is the same banned pivot wearing a nicer coat. (False binaries like "either X or Y" are handled b...