# Academic Humanizer

Improve the clarity and voice of AI-assisted academic writing (papers, theses...

- Repository: https://github.com/AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer (3150 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-07-03
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer --skill academic-humanizer -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer --skill academic-humanizer -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer --skill academic-humanizer -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer --skill academic-humanizer -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Improve the clarity and voice of AI-assisted academic writing (papers, theses, rebuttals) and funding proposals (NSF Project Summary/Description, NIH Specific Aims): preserve scholarly conventions, match claims to evidence (and, for proposals, claims to feasibility), and match the author's own voice. It never changes a number, result, or citation, and it is not for evading AI-use disclosure. Use when editing AI-assisted academic prose or grant proposals.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Academic Humanizer

Improve the clarity and voice of AI-assisted *academic* writing while keeping the precise,
evidence-bound voice that scholarship requires and matching the author's own style. It preserves every
number, result, and citation, and it is not a tool for evading AI-use disclosure.

## When to use
Editing or reviewing academic prose: paper sections, abstracts, rebuttals, related work, and **funding
proposals** (NSF Project Summary/Description, NIH Specific Aims, fellowship and foundation proposals;
see Layer 6). **Not** for blogs, marketing, or personal essays, and **never** inject opinion, humor, or
first-person "personality" into a manuscript. For technical writing, neutral and precise *is* the human
voice. One caveat for proposals: their register is different from a paper's, since they are sold on
vision and feasibility, so the ambition language a paper would trim is appropriate there; apply Layer 6,
not the paper layers' stricter trimming, to vision statements.

## Core principle
Academic writing already has a correct human voice: neutral, precise, third-person plural ("we"), every
claim tied to its evidence. The job is to (1) strip the AI *tells* without casualizing, and (2) enforce
the discipline a general humanizer misses: **every claim earns its number, figure, or citation, and no
verb is stronger than its evidence.**

The rest: https://github.com/AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer/blob/HEAD//SKILL.md