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Avoid AI Writing — Setup Guide

Source: conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing GitHub: conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing Skills: 1 skill · 1.6K installs Category: Content Quality First Seen: catalogued August 17, 2026 sweep (avoid-ai-writing on skills.sh since March 7, 2026) Quality Tier: 🟡 Trusted — Snyk Warn named (see Limitations)

Avoid AI Writing audits content for AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") and rewrites them out. Its distinguishing trait is epistemic honesty: the skill opens by stating it is a writing-quality tool, not a verdict — citing the Stanford false-positive study on non-native English writers and the 2025 open-source detector misclassification research. Patterns are signals to pair with context, not proof.

Installation

npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing

Individual skills install with the explicit repo form:

npx skills add https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing --skill avoid-ai-writing

Prerequisites

Requirement Details
Node.js + npx For the skill installer
Prose to audit Any draft — post, email, doc, or page copy

What It Provides

Three operating modes:

Mode Purpose
rewrite (default) Flag AI-isms and rewrite the text to fix them, including a built-in corrective second pass
detect Flag AI-isms only — no rewriting ("scan," "flag only," "audit only")
edit Edit a file in place with minimal, targeted changes; preserves already-human passages

Optional voice profiles (casual / professional / technical / warm / blunt), context hints (linkedin, blog, investor-email, docs), and an iterate-to-convergence pass capped at 2 rounds round out the CLI surface.

The skill's built-in guardrails warn against using its signals as the sole basis for consequential decisions (academic integrity, hiring, publication) and note that the same patterns fire on second-language writing, deadline-pressed humans, and compressed technical genres.

Quick Start

  1. Install: npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
  2. Ask: "audit this draft with avoid-ai-writing and rewrite it"
  3. Review the flagged patterns; accept or reject each rewrite

CorpusIQ Use Cases

Use Case How
Already installed in production This skill runs in the CorpusIQ Hermes profile — this guide closes the docs-catalog gap
Public content gate Pairs with content-voice rules and slop scoring before anything ships publicly
Outreach email quality AI-ism audit on cold outreach and partner emails keeps the human voice

Limitations / Verification

  • Security audits on avoid-ai-writing: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass, Snyk Warn — named per catalog policy
  • Publisher-page install counts verified (1.6K); GitHub 3.0K stars on the repo
  • Install count is below the usual drafting bar — catalogued because the skill is installed in the CorpusIQ production profile and was flagged as a docs gap by the August 17 ecosystem scan
  • Signals are statistical, not proof — the skill itself says so and cites the research
npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing   # verify install works

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