humanizelisted

# Humanize Source: `points/ai-writing-rules.md` and the centaur-writer thesis. The point of this skill is the inverse of every other skill in this repo — most of them sharpen, this one *de-sharpens* deliberately. **Operator note (2026-05-07):** Dialed back from the original aggressive setting (too many typos and missing words landed in finals), then re-tuned for a middle ground: a few safe roughening moves are still welcome even in short pieces. The bias is "fewer types of typos, but still some texture" — not "skip everything." ## The premise A perfect email is suspicious. Real people: - Use contractions inconsistently ("it's" once, "it is" once in the same email — humans aren't consistent) - Vary sentence punctuation (sometimes a period where a comma would be cleaner) - Use parentheses inconsistently - Repeat a word from the previous sentence sometimes (real attention drift) A model output is *too clean*. This skill leaves a small amount of real-person residue in. Note: residue, not damage. Missing required words and unsafe typos are damage; do not introduce them. ## Two modes ### Mode 1 — Shorten + roughen (default) Take the draft and: 1. Cut 10–20% of the words 2. Convert most "I am / it is / they are / cannot" to contractions, but mix in one full form somewhere for inconsistency 3. Drop the *subject pronoun* in one casual opener if the draft has one (never drop articles) 4. Vary one sentence's punctuation in a slightly imperfect way (a period instead of a comma; a