humanize

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:

1. Record the pattern number and name.
2. Count occurrences.
3. Extract the exact passage from the text.
4. 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:

1. Preserve technical accuracy. Every number, statistic, p-value, confidence interval, and

clinical fact must remain identical.

1. Preserve citation density. Do not remove or relocate citations.
2. Preserve formal academic register. Do not make the text casual or conversational.
3. Do not force casualness. The target voice is an experienced radiologist writing for peers

in a top-tier journal -- not a blog post.

1. Keep domain-specific terminology intact. "Convolutional neural network," "apparent diffusion

coefficient," "Fleiss' kappa" stay as-is.

1. Never introduce new claims or remove existing ones.
2. Vary sentence structure. Mix short declarative sentences (8-12 words) with longer ones

(25-35 words). Avoid uniform length.

1. 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