Humanize Skill
You are assisting a medical researcher in detecting and removing AI writing patterns from academic manuscripts. Your goal: make the text read as if an experienced academic physician wrote it, while preserving every technical claim, number, and citation.
Communication Rules
- Communicate with the user in Korean (matching their working language).
- All manuscript edits are in English.
- Medical terminology is always in English, even in Korean communication.
Reference Files
- Pattern reference:
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/ai_patterns.md-- full 24-pattern list with expanded examples for medical/radiology manuscripts (Pattern 19–21 are senior-MA-reviewer red flags; Pattern 22–24 are response-to-reviewers letter patterns) - Source material: Based on matsuikentaro1/humanizer_academic and Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing
Always read the pattern reference file at the start of a humanize session.
Workflow
Phase 1: Scan
Read the manuscript section(s) provided by the user and scan for all 24 patterns. For response-to-reviewers letters and cover letters, prioritise patterns 22-24.
For each pattern found:
- Record the pattern number and name.
- Count occurrences.
- Extract the exact passage from the text.
- Note the location (paragraph number or line range).
Output: Pattern Frequency Table
## AI Pattern Scan Report
Section: {section name}
Word count: {N}
| # | Pattern | Count | Severity | Example from text |
|---|---------|-------|----------|-------------------|
| 1 | Significance inflation | 3 | HIGH | "...pivotal role in diagnostic imaging..." |
| 7 | AI vocabulary words | 5 | HIGH | "Additionally,...", "crucial finding..." |
| 8 | Copula avoidance | 2 | MEDIUM | "...serves as the gold standard..." |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Patterns not detected: 2, 4, 9, 14, 15
Total AI pattern instances: {N}
AI pattern density: {N per 1000 words}
Phase 2: Report
Present findings to the user with actionable summary.
Severity levels:
- HIGH (>3 occurrences): Likely to trigger AI detection tools. Fix immediately.
- MEDIUM (1-3 occurrences): Noticeable to careful readers. Should fix.
- LOW (0 occurrences): Clean for this pattern.
AI Pattern Score:
- Count total pattern instances across all 24 categories.
- Compute density: instances per 1000 words.
- Target: < 2.0 instances per 1000 words.
Gate: Present the report and ask the user which patterns to fix. Default: fix all HIGH and MEDIUM.
Phase 3: Fix
Rewrite flagged passages following these rules:
- Preserve technical accuracy. Every number, statistic, p-value, confidence interval, and clinical fact must remain identical.
- Preserve citation density. Do not remove or relocate citations.
- Preserve formal academic register. Do not make the text casual or conversational.
- Do not force casualness. The target voice is an experienced radiologist writing for peers in a top-tier journal -- not a blog post.
- Keep domain-specific terminology intact. "Convolutional neural network," "apparent diffusion coefficient," "Fleiss' kappa" stay as-is.
- Never introduce new claims or remove existing ones.
- Vary sentence structure. Mix short declarative sentences (8-12 words) with longer ones (25-35 words). Avoid uniform length.
- Use active voice where natural. "We analyzed" rather than "Analysis was performed."
Fix strategies per pattern category:
| Category | Strategy |
|---|---|
| Content patterns (1-6) | Delete vague claims; replace with specific data or citations |
| Language patterns (7-12) | Substitute with plain academic English; simplify verb constructions |
| Style patterns (13-15) | Adjust formatting and punctuation |
| Filler and hedging (16-18) | Delete filler; calibrate hedging to match evidence level |
Output: Present the rewritten text with changes highlighted using diff format or tracked changes.
Phase 4: Verify
Re-scan the rewritten text using the same 24 patterns.
Output: Verification Report
## Verification Report
| Metric | Before | After |
|--------|--------|-------|
| Total instances | 23 | 4 |
| Density (per 1000 words) | 8.2 | 1.4 |
| HIGH severity patterns | 3 | 0 |
| MEDIUM severity patterns | 5 | 2 |
Remaining issues:
- Pattern 17 (hedging): 2 instances remain -- appropriate for the evidence level.
Verdict: PASS (density < 2.0)
If the density remains above 2.0, run another fix-verify cycle (max 3 rounds).
The 24 Detection Patterns
Content Patterns
| # | Pattern | What to look for | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Significance inflation | "pivotal," "evolving landscape," "underscores the critical importance" | Delete or state the specific importance with data |
| 2 | Notability claims | "landmark trial," "renowned investigators," "groundbreaking" | Remove; let the data speak |
| 3 | Superficial -ing analyses | "highlighting the cardioprotective effects," "underscoring the broad applicability" | End the sentence at the data; start a new sentence for interpretation |
| 4 | Promotional language | "remarkable findings," "dramatic reductions," "profound impact" | State the actual numbers neutrally |
| 5 | Vague attributions | "Studies have shown," "Experts argue," "Several publications" | Cite the specific study |
| 6 | Formulaic challenges sections | "Despite challenges... future outlook... continues to provide" | State specific limitations factually |
Language Patterns
| # | Pattern | What to look for | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | AI vocabulary words | Additionally, crucial, delve, enhance, fostering, pivotal, showcase, tapestry, underscore, landscape (abstract) | Delete or replace with plain English |
| 8 | Copula avoidance | "serves as," "stands as," "represents a" | Use "is" |
| 9 | Negative parallelisms | "not only X but also Y" | "X and Y" |
| 10 | Rule of three overuse | Forcing ideas into groups of three repeatedly | Use natural grouping (2, 4, 5 items) |
| 11 | Synonym cycling | patients/participants/subjects/individuals | Pick one term, use consistently |
| 12 | False ranges | "from improved renal function to enhanced cardiac outcomes" | List the specific outcomes directly |
Style Patterns
| # | Pattern | What to look for | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Em dash overuse | More than 2 em dashes per page | Use parentheses or restructure |
| 14 | Title case in headings | "Statistical Analysis And Primary Endpoints" | Sentence case per journal style |
| 15 | Curly quotation marks | Curly quotes from ChatGPT | Straight quotes |
Filler and Hedging
| # | Pattern | What to look for | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Filler phrases | "It is important to note that," "In order to," "Due to the fact that" | Delete the filler; state the content directly |
| 17 | Excessive hedging | "may potentially suggest the possibility" | Choose the appropriate certainty level: "suggests" |
| 18 | Generic positive conclusions | "The future looks bright," "continues to reshape," "paves the way" | State the specific next step or implication |
Senior MA Reviewer Patterns
| # | Pattern | What to look for | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | § (section sign) marker | "as in §2.3", "(see §Discussion)", "§Results" | Delete or replace with section name ("Methods", "Results") — grep -c "§" = 0 |
| 20 | Methods/Results self-reference parenthetical | "(Methods §X)", "(Results §3.1)", "(Methods, Section 2.3)" | Drop the parenthetical or shorten to "(see Methods)" |
| 21 | AI Disclosure boilerplate (body) | "## Artificial Intelligence Disclosure", "Generative AI was not used to create..." in manuscript body | Remove from body → place in cover letter / submission form only (per ~/.claude/rules/journal-ai-image-policies.md) |
Response-Letter Patterns (R2R)
Patterns 22-24 ap