Avoid AI Writing

Avoid AI Writing is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by brycewang-stanford in Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

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Install Avoid AI Writing

Copy Avoid AI Writing into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/47-conorbronsdon-avoid-ai-writing ~/.claude/skills/47-conorbronsdon-avoid-ai-writing

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/47-conorbronsdon-avoid-ai-writing/SKILL.md in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/47-conorbronsdon-avoid-ai-writing
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Avoid AI Writing does

Avoid AI Writing audits and rewrites content to remove AI writing patterns (AI-isms), such as em dashes, hollow intensifiers, and overused vocabulary. Use it when asked to detect AI tells or make text sound less machine-generated.

Avoid AI Writing is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Avoid AI Writing comes from a repository tagged academic-research, agent-skills, ai-agent, awesome-list and communication.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite

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

Modes

This skill operates in one of two modes:

rewrite (default) — Flag AI-isms and rewrite the text to fix them.

detect — Flag AI-isms only. No rewriting. Use this mode when:

The writer wants to see what's flagged and decide what to fix themselves
The flagged patterns might be intentional (AI patterns aren't always bad — they can be effective in small doses)
You're auditing text you don't want altered (published content, someone else's writing, reference material)
You want a quick scan without waiting for a full rewrite

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Avoid AI Writing

What else does brycewang-stanford publish alongside Avoid AI Writing?
Avoid AI Writing is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Composer, Academic Proofreader and Auto-Empirical Research. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Avoid AI Writing does, and is maintained by brycewang-stanford in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills page.
How does Avoid AI Writing compare to other Writing skills?
Avoid AI Writing ranks #195 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Avoid AI Writing against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.