ai-writing-detox

# AI Writing Detox ## What This Skill Does Rewrites AI-flavoured copy into a publishable register by stripping the language tells of an LLM draft — buzzwords, throat-clearing, false-inclusive openers, and the "not just X — Y" rhetorical tic — and supplies the canonical banned-list that runtime hooks read to flag drafts before they ship. ## When To Use This Skill - A reporter or producer suspects an LLM drafted (or heavily assisted) the copy and wants a clean rewrite - A subeditor is reviewing a piece that reads "fluently bland" — grammatically correct, recognisably synthetic - Before posting any external surface (article, show notes, newsletter, README) where the audience is media professionals who notice these tells - When onboarding a new contributor whose first drafts default to AI register - As the source of truth for the `ai-slop-detector` runtime hook (see Hook Contract below) ## What You Need To Provide **Required:** The draft text you want detoxed. **Optional:** Outlet or surface (news article, show notes, internal memo, README), audience register (general public, working journalists, investor-facing), any preserved terms (e.g., a term that looks like jargon but has been defined earlier in the piece), word-count constraint if the rewrite must hit a length. ## How the Assistant Approaches This 1. Reads the full draft and identifies every hit against the **Hard ban** list — these are non-negotiable rewrites. 2. Reads it again for **Soft warn** patterns — surfaces th...