The Avoid AI Writing skill

What it does

Audits and rewrites text to remove the tells that make content read as AI-written: promotional filler, hedge-stacked predictions, "serves as" and "boasts", chatbot artifacts ("Certainly!", "I hope this helps!"), and over-uniform sentence rhythm. It checks 42 pattern categories.

Two modes:

• Rewrite (default): flags issues, rewrites, then runs a second pass.
• Detect: flags patterns without changing anything.

GitHub: github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing

Option 1: Upload to claude.ai or Claude Desktop

No command line needed.

1. Open the GitHub repo.
2. Click the green Code button → Download ZIP.
3. Unzip it. GitHub names the folder avoid-ai-writing-main. Rename it to avoid-ai-writing, then zip that folder so SKILL.md sits at the root. Getting this right avoids the most common upload error.
4. In Claude, go to Customize → Skills, click "+", then "Create skill".
5. Upload the ZIP and toggle the skill on.

Requirements: custom skills need "Code execution and file creation" turned on, and are available on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans. Skills you upload are private to your account.

Option 2: Clone with Git (Claude Code)

Clone straight into your Claude Code skills folder:

git clone https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing ~/.claude/skills/avoid-ai-writing

Claude Code picks it up automatically.

Or clone anywhere and reference it in your CLAUDE.md:

git clone https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing

- Editing for AI patterns → read `path/to/avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md`

Using it

Just ask:

• Remove AI-isms from this postCopy
• Audit this draft for AI tellsCopy
• Make this sound less like AICopy

Add "detect", "flag only" or "scan" to get flags without a rewrite.

Notes

• Skills uploaded to claude.ai don't auto-update from GitHub. Re-download and re-upload to get new versions.
• MIT licensed. Made by Conor Bronsdon.