academic-humanizer

Rewrites AI-assisted academic drafts and grant proposals to remove AI tells while preserving claims, numbers, and citations.

Updated Aug 26, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/coollx/stable-harness --skill academic-humanizer-coollx
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: academic-humanizer
Source: https://github.com/coollx/stable-harness/tree/main/paper/.claude/skills/academic-humanizer
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/coollx/stable-harness --skill academic-humanizer-coollx

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? AI-assisted drafts of papers and grant proposals come out generic and verbose, with formulaic openers, inflated phrasing, over-claimed results, and a voice that drifts from the author's own. General-purpose humanizer tools flatten the precision that scholarly writing depends on. ## Core Features & Use Cases - AI-tell removal for academic prose: detects and fixes formulaic openers, over-claiming verbs, empty intensifiers, novelty padding, citation dumping, and overlong sentences across six layered rule sets. - Claim-evidence discipline: checks every empirical claim against its number, figure, table, or citation, downgrades verbs stronger than the evidence, and never alters a number, equation, or reference. - Funding-proposal mode (NSF/NIH): applies a separate register for Project Summaries and Specific Aims pages, keeping vision language while enforcing claim-to-feasibility matching and first-page primacy. - Use Case: Paste an AI-drafted Related Work section or an NIH Specific Aims page, optionally supply a prior accepted paper for voice calibration, and receive a cleaned rewrite plus a change log of patterns removed and claims softened. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to run the academic-humanizer skill on your draft section or main.tex, optionally naming a prior paper for voice matching and the target venue or funding agency.

Frequently Asked Questions about academic-humanizer

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I remove AI writing patterns from an academic paper draft?

Run the skill on your draft section or main.tex file. It audits for AI tells like formulaic openers, over-claiming verbs, and empty intensifiers, then rewrites the text while preserving every claim, number, and citation, and returns a change log.

How to edit an NIH Specific Aims page or NSF proposal with AI?

Use the skill's Layer 6 funding-proposal mode, which keeps vision and ambition language that papers would trim. It enforces claim-to-feasibility matching, parallel independent aims, and concentrates editing effort on the first pages reviewers score.

Does academic-humanizer change citations, numbers, or results?

No. The skill explicitly never invents, drops, or alters any number, equation, or citation, and it preserves evidence-tied hedging, passive voice where appropriate, and technical terms verbatim. The output report confirms nothing was altered.

Can I match the rewrite to my own writing voice?

Yes. Supply one or more of your prior accepted papers, and the skill analyzes sentence rhythm, hedging habits, section openers, and recurring phrasings, then matches them. Without a sample it defaults to clean, venue-appropriate prose.

When should I not use an academic humanizer tool?

Do not use it for blogs, marketing copy, or personal essays, since it is calibrated for scholarly registers. It is also not for evading AI-use detection, and you must still follow your venue's AI-assistance disclosure policy.