A colleague pointed me at a Claude Code skill that strips AI-isms out of generated text. I needed it.
My blog workflow: I have a vague idea, I run /post in my blog repo, and Claude drafts something. Then I proofread it. The problem is the output is loaded with AI tells — too many transition phrases, filler words, and inflated sentence structures that aren’t how I talk or write.
“It’s worth noting that…”, “This is particularly useful when…”, “Let’s dive in.” None of that is me.
The avoid-ai-writing skill audits generated text and rewrites it to remove those patterns. You can run it in detect-only mode to see what’s wrong, or have it edit in place. There’s also a voice profile option if you want to tune the output toward casual, professional, blunt, etc.
I set it to run on my drafts after /post generates them. The diff is usually significant.