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.