MichaelZelbel

Strip AI Tells — AI skill for Claude Code

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Use when prose a human reads as writing sounds machine-written and needs an edit that fixes it rather than a report about it.

How to install Strip AI Tells

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/michaelzelbel-teach-it-once-kit-strip-ai-tells/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/michaelzelbel-teach-it-once-kit-strip-ai-tells && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaelZelbel/teach-it-once-kit/HEAD/skills/strip-ai-tells.md -o ~/.claude/skills/michaelzelbel-teach-it-once-kit-strip-ai-tells/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Strip AI Tells does

name: strip-ai-tells description: Use when prose a human reads as writing sounds machine-written and needs an edit that fixes it rather than a report about it. Trigger on "make this sound human", "de-AI this", "humanize this chapter", "does this read as AI", or an editing pass over a manuscript, chapter, draft, post or sales page. Handles a whole book one chapter at a time.

Strip AI tells

Everything this skill needs is in this one file. The lists are yours to edit: cross out what you

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