itsryanlenk

Humanist — AI skill for Claude Code

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A prose checker and an offline sanitizer for AI-assisted writing, with the blind studies behind both.

How to install Humanist

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open itsryanlenk/humanist and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Humanist does

A prose checker and an offline sanitizer for AI-assisted writing, with the blind studies behind both.

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README

humanist

**Make an AI-assisted draft measurably better to read.** In a blind study, editors preferred the processed draft over the raw one **22 times out of 22**.

That is the claim, and it is the only one this repository makes. It does not make writing pass as human, it cannot defeat AI detection, and the studies in [docs/evals/](docs/evals/README.md) are the reason both of those sentences are here rather than in a footnote.

What it is

**The rewrite pass.** Siqi Chen's MIT-licensed [humanizer](https://github.com/blader/humanizer), vendored under `plugins/humanist/skills/humanist/third_party/`. It strips inflated significance, AI vocabulary, negative parallelisms, filler and fake-candid openers, rewriting rather than deleting. **This stage carries the measured benefit: 16 of 16 blind trials against the raw draft.**

**The checker.** `humanist.py`, a stdlib-only sweep over the trope inventory in `ai-tropes.md`. It reports FAIL and WARN counts, readability, anaphora runs, duplicate sentences and bold-bullet counts, and **it never edits**. Read the [honest note on this stage](#the-checker-stage-is-not-proven) before relying on it.

**The composition read.** Five tells stay manual forever, because no regular expression catches them without lying about its precision: dead metaphor, fractal summaries, analogy stacking, one-point dilution, near-verbatim repetition.

Install

/plugin marketplace add itsryanlenk/humanist
/plugin install humanist@humanist

Or clone it. Python 3.9+, standard library only, nothing to install.

git clone https://github.com/itsryanlenk/humanist
cd humanist
python scripts/validate_repo.py

Quickstart

cd plugins/humanist/skills/humanist

python humanist.py draft.md                    # the checker
python humanist.py draft.md --strip-quotes     # drafts quoting primary sources
python humanist.py draft.md --lenient          # internal docs: register rules become notes
python humanist.py --rules