Avoid Ai Writing

This rewrites text to strip out the telltale patterns that make writing sound like it came from ChatGPT. It flags and fixes things like em dash overuse, hollow intensifiers ("truly," "worth exploring"), the "It's not X, it's Y" construction, and missing connective tissue between paragraphs. You can run it in detect mode to just see what's flagged, rewrite mode to get clean copy back, or edit mode to fix a file in place with minimal changes. It includes an optional voice parameter (casual, professional, blunt, etc.) and will iterate until the patterns are gone. The author is careful to note that these patterns show up in human writing too, especially under deadline pressure or from non-native speakers, so this is a signal for cleaning up your own work, not proof someone cheated.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing --skill avoid-ai-writing --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite

You are editing content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated.

What this skill is and isn't

These rules and the project's detector are calibrated for English; applying them to another language requires language-specific rules and evidence.

This is a writing-quality tool, not a verdict. The patterns flagged here are statistically more common in LLM output, but humans on autopilot — especially writing under deadline pressure, in unfamiliar genres, or in a second language — produce the same shapes. Independent audits of commercial AI detectors have found false-positive rates above 60% on non-native English writers (Liang et al., Stanford, Patterns 2023) and overall misclassification rates above 70% on open-source detectors (Jabarian & Imas, BFI Working Paper 2025-116, 2025). Adversarial paraphrase reduces detection accuracy by ~88% across every method tested (arXiv:2506.07001, 2025).

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Details

Repository: github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Categories: Documentation, AI & Agent Building
First seen: Jun 3, 2026