diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a651289..542c3ca 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -36,6 +36,22 @@ Or ask Claude to humanize text directly: Please humanize this text: [your text] ``` +### Voice Calibration + +To match your personal writing style, provide a sample of your own writing: + +``` +/humanizer + +Here's a sample of my writing for voice matching: +[paste 2-3 paragraphs of your own writing] + +Now humanize this text: +[paste AI text to humanize] +``` + +The skill will analyze your sentence rhythm, word choices, and quirks, then apply them to the rewrite instead of producing generic "clean" output. + ## Overview Based on [Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing) guide, maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup. This comprehensive guide comes from observations of thousands of instances of AI-generated text. @@ -133,6 +149,7 @@ The skill also includes a final "obviously AI generated" audit pass and a second ## Version History +- **2.4.0** - Added voice calibration: match the user's personal writing style from samples - **2.3.0** - Added pattern #25: hyphenated word pair overuse - **2.2.0** - Added a final "obviously AI generated" audit + second-pass rewrite prompts - **2.1.1** - Fixed pattern #18 example (curly quotes vs straight quotes) diff --git a/SKILL.md b/SKILL.md index 88ebe23..cf9e039 100644 --- a/SKILL.md +++ b/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: humanizer -version: 2.3.0 +version: 2.4.0 description: | Remove signs of AI-generated writing from text. Use when editing or reviewing text to make it sound more natural and human-written. Based on Wikipedia's @@ -33,6 +33,27 @@ When given text to humanize: 6. **Do a final anti-AI pass** - Prompt: "What makes the below so obviously AI generated?" Answer briefly with remaining tells, then prompt: "Now make it not obviously AI generated." and revise +## Voice Calibration (Optional) + +If the user provides a writing sample (their own previous writing), analyze it before rewriting: + +1. **Read the sample first.** Note: + - Sentence length patterns (short and punchy? Long and flowing? Mixed?) + - Word choice level (casual? academic? somewhere between?) + - How they start paragraphs (jump right in? Set context first?) + - Punctuation habits (lots of dashes? Parenthetical asides? Semicolons?) + - Any recurring phrases or verbal tics + - How they handle transitions (explicit connectors? Just start the next point?) + +2. **Match their voice in the rewrite.** Don't just remove AI patterns - replace them with patterns from the sample. If they write short sentences, don't produce long ones. If they use "stuff" and "things," don't upgrade to "elements" and "components." + +3. **When no sample is provided,** fall back to the default behavior (natural, varied, opinionated voice from the PERSONALITY AND SOUL section below). + +### How to provide a sample +- Inline: "Humanize this text. Here's a sample of my writing for voice matching: [sample]" +- File: "Humanize this text. Use my writing style from [file path] as a reference." + + ## PERSONALITY AND SOUL Avoiding AI patterns is only half the job. Sterile, voiceless writing is just as obvious as slop. Good writing has a human behind it.