# Humanize

Use whenever the user asks to "humanize", "make this sound more human", "rewrite to...

- Repository: https://github.com/harshaneel/humanize (597 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-22
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add harshaneel/humanize --skill humanize -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add harshaneel/humanize --skill humanize -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add harshaneel/humanize --skill humanize -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add harshaneel/humanize --skill humanize -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add harshaneel/humanize`

## Description

Use whenever the user asks to "humanize", "make this sound more human", "rewrite to avoid AI detection", "make this less AI-sounding", "add a human voice", or "write like a person". Also use when the user pastes text and asks why it reads as robotic, generic, flat, or AI-like, or when generating new text in a register where AI tells (em dashes, semicolons, hedges, banned vocabulary like "delve", "leverage", "robust") would damage credibility.

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

# 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).

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## 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.

The rest: https://github.com/harshaneel/humanize/blob/HEAD/plugins/humanize/skills/humanize/SKILL.md