Academic Humanizer skill
A skill for editing academic writing and grant proposals: strips AI-writing tells, keeps the scholarly voice and ties claims to evidence
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Why this level
- The skill is instructions and edits text without touching external systems
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- Works in
In your terminal, with SkillFoxx CLI
npx skillfoxx add skills/academic-humanizerDetects the agents on your machine, shows the access level and pins the version.
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How we reviewMinimal accessThe tool runs nothing and makes no network calls.
- The skill is instructions and edits text without touching external systems
This is third-party code. Review the repository files before installing.
What it does
The skill edits academic writing and grant proposals, removing typical AI-writing tells while keeping a strict scholarly voice. It ties claims to evidence and, for proposals, also looks at how claims match feasibility. It never changes numbers, results or citations and is not meant for evading AI-use disclosure rules. Proposals use a separate layer with a different register than papers.
Who it is for. For researchers, graduate students and teachers editing academic texts and funding proposals.
Good fit when
- You need to strip AI-writing tells from a paper or section
- You need claims checked against evidence
- You need to polish a grant proposal with its register in mind
Not a fit when
- The text is not academic: a blog, marketing or a personal essay
- You want to hide AI use, which the skill explicitly does not do
Example request
Polish this paper section: remove AI-writing tells but do not touch numbers and citationsLimitations
The skill preserves every number, result and citation and does not replace fact-checking. It is not for evading AI-use disclosure and does not add a personal tone to academic text.
How to disable. Delete the academic-humanizer directory from your agent's skills directory.
FAQ
Does the skill change numbers and results?
No, it preserves every number, result and citation and edits only the form.
Does it help hide AI use?
No, the skill is explicitly not for evading AI-use disclosure.
Discussion
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Comparison with similar tools
Cards that share the main search query, and how they differ.
| Tool | Official | Repository stars | Main difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Humanizer (this card) | no | 4,621 | |
| Academic Writing Skills | no | 549 | eight skills for finished papers and theses in LaTeX and Typst |
| Research Writing Skill | no | 553 | skill with 30 prompt templates for research papers in English and |
README in short
The README and SKILL.md describe Academic Humanizer as a skill for improving the clarity and voice of academic writing and grant proposals. It keeps the academic register, ties claims to evidence and does not change numbers, results or citations. It installs by copying into the skills directory and works in Claude Code, Codex and MorphMind. Proposals use a separate editing layer.
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Original SKILL.md
--- name: academic-humanizer version: 0.3.3 description: | Improve the clarity and voice of AI-assisted academic writing (papers, theses, rebuttals) and funding proposals (NSF Project Summary/Description, NIH Specific Aims): preserve scholarly conventions, match claims to evidence (and, for proposals, claims to feasibility), and match the author's own voice. It never changes a number, result, or citation, and it is not for evading AI-use disclosure. Use when editing AI-assisted academic prose or grant proposals. license: MIT compatibility: claude-code codex morphmind opencode allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, AskUserQuestion] --- # Academic Humanizer Improve the clarity and voice of AI-assisted *academic* writing while keeping the precise, evidence-bound voice that scholarship requires and matching the author's own style. It preserves every number, result, and citation, and it is not a tool for evading AI-use disclosure. ## When to use Editing or reviewing academic prose: paper sections, abstracts, rebuttals, related work, and **funding proposals** (NSF Project Summary/Description, NIH Specific Aims, fellowship and foundation proposals).