Agent skill

Avoid AI Writing Router

by conorbronsdon in conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing

A skill your agent uses when a request combines AI-writing audit, rewrite, file editing, voice preservation, false-positive interpretation, verification, or when the user invokes Avoid AI Writing…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Avoid AI Writing Router

skills CLI
$ npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing --skill avoid-ai-writing-router -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing avoid-ai-writing-router --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/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router .claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router && 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
avoid-ai-writing-router
GitHub stars
4.9k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
918 words
Files
8 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
7
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a request combines AI-writing audit, rewrite, file editing, voice preservation, false-positive interpretation, verification, or when the user invokes Avoid AI Writing…

  • Works in 5 steps: ../avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md is the… → references/handoff-contract.md defines… → references/skill-graph.json is the… → …
  • A request combines AI-writing audit
  • SKILL.md covers Authority chain, Orchestration model, Primary routing and Multi-stage sequencing, plus 6 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Avoid AI Writing Router is an agent skill from conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing. Use when a request combines AI-writing audit, rewrite, file editing, voice preservation, false-positive interpretation, verification, or when the user invokes Avoid AI Writing without naming a mode.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 10 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/agency-role-lenses.md` and `references/handoff-contract.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Humanizing AI text. The repository describes itself as: Skill that audits and rewrites content to remove AI writing patterns. Use it with your favorite agents including Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, and Hermes. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A request combines AI-writing audit
  • Voice preservation
  • False-positive interpretation
  • The user invokes Avoid AI Writing without naming a mode

Example prompts

  • “/avoid-ai-writing-router”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. ../avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md is the canonical editorial authority.
  2. references/handoff-contract.md defines what context and evidence can cross Skill boundaries.
  3. references/skill-graph.json is the machine-readable source for nodes, typed edges, guards, and loop limits.
  4. references/routing-matrix.md is the human-readable routing table.
  5. references/agency-role-lenses.md defines the architecture, AI-evidence, implementation, and representation review lenses used to inspect…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5a5cf6a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Avoid AI Writing Router loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 56 tokens; SKILL.md has 918 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~56
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~7k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing at commit 5a5cf6a, republished under its MIT licence (© conorbronsdon). 918 words, ~1,839 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 7 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
avoid-ai-writing-router
description
Use when a request combines AI-writing audit, rewrite, file editing, voice preservation, false-positive interpretation, verification, or when the user invokes Avoid AI Writing without naming a mode.
version
3.37.0
license
MIT

Avoid AI Writing Router

Coordinate the public Skills as a bounded workflow. Route to the narrowest owner, preserve context between stages, and stop when the requested job is complete. This Skill does not replace the original avoid-ai-writing rulebook.

Authority chain

  1. ../avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md is the canonical editorial authority.
  2. references/handoff-contract.md defines what context and evidence can cross Skill boundaries.
  3. references/skill-graph.json is the machine-readable source for nodes, typed edges, guards, and loop limits.
  4. references/routing-matrix.md is the human-readable routing table.
  5. references/agency-role-lenses.md defines the architecture, AI-evidence, implementation, and representation review lenses used to inspect the network.

Do not weaken, duplicate, or contradict the canonical Skill's preservation rules, evidence caveats, voice rules, pattern tiers, or pass behavior.

Orchestration model

Classify the request once, create the smallest useful handoff envelope, then pass that envelope forward rather than asking every downstream Skill to infer the same context again.

The envelope should carry only observed or user-provided facts such as:

  • intent and source kind
  • requested editing scope and explicit factual corrections
  • canonical context profile and detector context mode
  • requested voice or supplied style sample
  • protected semantic constraints
  • whether detector, mutation, or verifier execution actually ran
  • detector summary when available
  • preservation status when available
  • risk flags
  • editing passes used and stop limit

Never mark an execution field as executed without host evidence.

Primary routing

  1. Scan, detect, audit, score, or flag-only requests go to ai-writing-detector.
  2. Returned-text rewrite, humanize, clean-up, or remove-AI-isms requests go to voice-preserving-rewriter.
  3. A named file plus an explicit request to change that file goes to file-edit-in-place.
  4. Original plus rewrite, before/after comparison, or preservation validation goes to preservation-verifier.
  5. Claims about proving AI use, cheating, fraud, dishonesty, hiring suitability, or similar consequential conclusions go to false-positive-reviewer.
  6. Explicit invocation of the original Skill may remain in avoid-ai-writing unless the request clearly needs a specialized stage.

Multi-stage sequencing

For requests such as "scan this, rewrite it, and make sure nothing important changed":

  1. ai-writing-detector collects signals when deterministic execution is available, otherwise it performs a model-only audit under the canonical rulebook.
  2. voice-preserving-rewriter rewrites returned text, or file-edit-in-place mutates an explicitly named file.
  3. The mutation owner performs any justified corrective edit within the shared editing-pass budget, then preservation-verifier checks before/after material.
  4. A verifier FAIL returns to the correct repair owner once only if the shared budget has room; that repair consumes the next editing pass.
  5. Verification runs once more after repair when possible.
  6. Residual detection runs only when the user requested convergence or a residual audit. The check is read-only; a resulting edit still needs room in the shared budget.
  7. Stop when no justified in-scope edit remains or after the canonical pass cap. Do not cycle indefinitely.

Typed edges

Use the edge semantics in references/handoff-contract.md:

  • ROUTE: choose the owner.
  • FEED: pass evidence without turning it into a command.
  • VERIFY: require a before/after preservation check.
  • REPAIR: return a failed preservation result to the correct mutation owner.
  • RECHECK: run one bounded residual check when requested.
  • ESCALATE: move uncertain or consequential authorship interpretation to false-positive-reviewer.

Conditional guards are not graph edges. Encode them in skill-graph.json guards and the handoff envelope (protected_constraints, human_representation_sensitive) per references/handoff-contract.md.

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Conditional human-representation guard

If the source itself is an image prompt, video prompt, storyboard, shot description, or creative brief that describes people, set human_representation_sensitive: true and preserve identity-sensitive details as protected constraints.

Use the agency-inclusive-visuals-specialist lens from references/agency-role-lenses.md to protect cultural, geographic, age, disability, attire, skin-tone/lighting, and physical-reality details. Do not route ordinary prose to a visual workflow just because it mentions a person.

Review lenses

Apply these design checks when the network changes or when a complex request exposes a boundary problem:

  • agency-software-architect: ownership, dependency direction, bounded loops, fallback, reversibility.
  • agency-ai-engineer: detector semantics, uncertainty, false-positive handling, context propagation, evaluation.
  • agency-senior-developer: executable paths, error propagation, file mutation evidence, CI and drift checks.
  • agency-inclusive-visuals-specialist: representation preservation only for visual prompts and briefs involving people.

These are review lenses, not hidden public dependencies. If an external agency Skill is not available in the current host, apply the encoded lens without claiming it ran.

Boundary changes

Return control to the router instead of continuing locally when:

  • the job changes from read-only to mutation,
  • the target changes from returned text to a named file or the reverse,
  • required before/after evidence is missing,
  • deterministic execution requested by the workflow is unavailable,
  • the user moves from pattern analysis to a consequential authorship claim,
  • a verifier fails and identifies a different repair owner.

Preserve the existing handoff envelope and change only fields affected by the new decision.

Stop conditions

Stop when the user's requested stage is complete and any required verification gate has passed, been explicitly reported as unavailable, or failed with no editing pass left for repair. Report an exhausted-budget failure without calling the result verified.

Do not:

  • infer authorship from detector output,
  • mutate a file without user authorization,
  • hide a verifier failure,
  • re-run stages simply because another Skill exists,
  • exceed the canonical rewrite pass cap,
  • route unrelated writing or coding requests into this Plugin merely because they mention AI.

Output

Return the selected workflow result only after the requested stages and available verification finish. For returned-text rewriting, include exactly one full Final rewrite; do not expose a draft that a later stage superseded. For named-file editing, report changed spans without dumping a duplicate of the file. For multi-stage work, state which stages actually ran, which were model-only, which deterministic checks executed, how many editing passes were used, whether any repair occurred, and the final preservation status or unresolved failure.

© conorbronsdon, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (scripts, references) in skills/avoid-ai-writing-router of conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/agency-role-lenses.md
  • references/handoff-contract.md
  • references/routing-matrix.md
  • references/skill-graph.json
  • scripts/validate_connections.py
  • scripts/validate_connections.test.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5a5cf6a

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Questions about Avoid AI Writing Router

What does Avoid AI Writing Router do?

A skill your agent uses when a request combines AI-writing audit, rewrite, file editing, voice preservation, false-positive interpretation, verification, or when the user invokes Avoid AI Writing…. Avoid AI Writing Router is an agent skill from conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing. Use when a request combines AI-writing audit, rewrite, file editing, voice preservation, false-positive interpretation, verification, or when the user invokes Avoid AI Writing without naming a mode.

When should I use Avoid AI Writing Router?

Avoid AI Writing Router fits situations like: A request combines AI-writing audit; voice preservation; false-positive interpretation; the user invokes Avoid AI Writing without naming a mode.

How do I install Avoid AI Writing Router in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing --skill avoid-ai-writing-router -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/avoid-ai-writing-router in conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing) into .claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Avoid AI Writing Router in Codex?

Run `npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing --skill avoid-ai-writing-router -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/avoid-ai-writing-router in conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing) into .agents/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Avoid AI Writing Router 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 conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing --skill avoid-ai-writing-router -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router, .gemini/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router, .github/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router and .opencode/skills/avoid-ai-writing-router in your project.

What does Avoid AI Writing Router need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Avoid AI Writing Router needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Avoid AI Writing Router access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Avoid AI Writing Router 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Avoid AI Writing Router use?

Avoid AI Writing Router is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Avoid AI Writing Router use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 5.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Avoid AI Writing Router?

conorbronsdon (a GitHub user) maintains it in conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, which has 4,938 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.