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avoid-ai-writing

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Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms"). Use this skill when asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," "edit writing for AI patterns," "audit writing for AI tells," or "make this sound less like AI." Audit and rewrite prose for repetitive, vague, or formulaic wording while preserving meaning, evidence, and the writer's voice.

When to use

• When asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," or "make this sound less like AI"
• After drafting content with AI and before publishing
• When editing any text that sounds like it was generated rather than written
• When auditing documentation, blog posts, marketing copy, or internal communications for AI tells

When not to use

• These are editorial heuristics, not proof of AI authorship. Preserve factual claims, uncertainty, attributed quotations, code, identifiers, and the requested scope.
• For audit-only requests, report findings without rewriting. Avoid replacing a precise technical term merely because it appears on a word list.
• Does not detect AI-generated code, only prose
• Pattern matching is guideline-based, not absolute — some flagged words are fine in context
• The replacement table suggests alternatives but the best choice depends on context
• Cannot verify factual claims or find real citations to replace vague attributions

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Conflict

The two copies overlap in purpose (audit and rewrite prose to remove AI-isms) but each contains material steps and constraints the other lacks. The first copy defines a 21-category detection taxonomy, a four-section output format (issues, rewrite, what changed, second-pass audit), and explicit limitations (audit-only mode, preserve technical terms, no code detection). The second copy provides a concrete, tiered replacement table (Tier 1/2/3), specific formatting rules with numeric thresholds (em dash hard max, bold limits, emoji exceptions), and a three-step workflow (audit, rewrite, diff summary). Neither copy is a strict reproduction of the other, so crowning one would hide a real alternative.