academic-humanizer

Rewrites AI-assisted academic manuscripts and grant proposals while preserving claims, citations, and scholarly voice.

Updated Apr 6, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/toderian/project_template --skill academic-humanizer-toderian
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: academic-humanizer
Source: https://github.com/toderian/project_template/tree/main/plugins/agents-personal/skills/academic-humanizer
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/toderian/project_template --skill academic-humanizer-toderian

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? AI-assisted academic writing often sounds generic, overclaims results, or drifts from the evidence, and careless editing can destroy numbers, citations, and hedging that reviewers depend on. This Skill revises manuscripts, theses, abstracts, and funding proposals so they read as careful scholarly prose without altering the underlying science. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five editing modes: audit, rewrite, line-edit, proposal, and voice-match, selected to fit the request from a quick diagnostic to paragraph-by-paragraph tracked revisions. - Content protection: numbers, units, equations, citations, methods, and uncertainty language are locked before any style editing, with unsupported claims flagged rather than invented. - Proposal-specific review: NSF and NIH first-pages checks, aim parallelism, feasibility evidence, and Broader Impacts concretization for grant text. - Use Case: Paste a Specific Aims page and ask for a proposal-mode revision; receive a rewritten draft that sharpens the gap, hypothesis, and payoff while preserving every preliminary result and citation. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to humanize the attached grant proposal draft in proposal mode while preserving all citations and preliminary data.

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 make AI-written academic text sound less generic?

Use the rewrite mode to remove inflated significance words, formulaic openings, filler connectives, and vague stakes while keeping technical terminology and hedging intact. The revision leads with claims and concrete nouns rather than casualizing the prose.

How to improve an NIH Specific Aims page before submission?

Use proposal mode, which checks that the first page states the problem, gap, long-term goal, central hypothesis, rationale, aims, and payoff. It converts method-as-aim phrasing into outcome phrasing and attaches bold claims to feasibility evidence.

Can academic humanizing preserve citations and numerical results?

Yes, the process locks numbers, units, equations, citations, figure references, and methods before any style editing begins. Every revision reports confirmation that protected content was preserved and flags claims needing author verification.

What is the difference between academic humanizing and general prose editing?

Academic humanizing keeps field-specific terminology, passive voice in methods, and evidence-tied hedging that general de-AI editing would strip out. For non-academic prose, a general deslop skill is the better fit.

When should I not use AI-assisted academic rewriting?

Do not use it to evade required AI-use disclosure, authorship policies, or institutional rules, and do not expect it to invent missing evidence, citations, or preliminary results. Unsupported claims are flagged for the author, never fabricated.