Strip AI writing patterns from text. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Humanizer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill humanizer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills humanizer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/humanizer .claude/skills/humanizer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
humanizer
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
514 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
364
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Strip AI writing patterns from text. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • Works in 5 steps: Read the File → Scan for AI Patterns → Apply Fixes → …
  • Make it sound natural
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow and Principles
  • Calls git

What it does

Humanizer is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Strip AI writing patterns from text. Checks 24 patterns across 4 categories (structural, lexical, rhetorical, formatting) with academic economics adaptation. This skill should be used on any text that reads too "AI-generated", or as a final pass on drafted sections. Triggers on "humanize", "de-AI", "make it sound natural", or "strip AI patterns".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Humanizing AI text. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Make it sound natural
  • Strip AI patterns

Example prompts

  • “AI-generated”
  • “humanize”
  • “make it sound natural”
  • “/humanizer”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the File
  2. Scan for AI Patterns
  3. Apply Fixes
  4. Report Changes
  5. Save

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Grep
    • Glob

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Humanizer loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 514 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 514 words (~1,216 tokens).

“Strip AI writing patterns from academic text while preserving economics content and formal structure.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
humanizer
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob
argument-hint
[file path to .tex, .md, .txt, or .qmd file]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/humanizer of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Humanizer

What does Humanizer do?

Strip AI writing patterns from text. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Humanizer is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Strip AI writing patterns from text.

When should I use Humanizer?

Humanizer fits situations like: make it sound natural; strip AI patterns.

How do I install Humanizer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill humanizer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/humanizer in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/humanizer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Humanizer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill humanizer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/humanizer in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/humanizer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Humanizer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill humanizer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/humanizer, .gemini/skills/humanizer, .github/skills/humanizer and .opencode/skills/humanizer in your project.

What does Humanizer need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Humanizer needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git). Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob.

Does Humanizer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Humanizer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Humanizer use?

Humanizer has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Humanizer use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Humanizer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Humanizer: Humanizer (Azure-Samples/interview-coach-agent-framework, 172 stars), Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), User-Facing Text Cleanup (guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover, 24k stars) and Install Anti Slop (trycompai/crm, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Humanizer?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,529 GitHub stars. The repository holds 364 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.