humanize

To remove AI writing tells from generated text, the humanize CLI strips patterns like em-dashes, contrastive reframes, and colon-declarations from prose, rewriting the content so it reads naturally to human readers. It processes stdin-to-stdout directly.

De-AI rewriting is the process of editing AI-generated prose to remove bot-like cadence and overly-formal lexical clusters. You need it for emails, proposals, essays, and social posts where the output will be read verbatim by real people.

To use the humanize CLI for prose rewriting, pipe your draft text into the command via stdin and receive the human-sounding output via stdout. You can also apply optional steering and texture modes to guide the rewrite pass.

Yes, you need an Anthropic API key to perform the de-AI rewrite pass. The humanize CLI sources the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from your environment variables or a canonical ~/.env file to process the text.

Yes, you can use humanize for LinkedIn posts and proposals. It applies prose-specific rewriting to content intended to be shown verbatim, stripping Claude writing tells to ensure your social posts and proposals sound authored, not generated.

A limitation of de-AI text processing is that it requires the humanize CLI to be globally installed on your system. Additionally, it targets specific Claude writing tells, meaning its effectiveness depends on the presence of those formal lexical clusters and bot-like cadences.