Anwar Bouilouta

Stop Sounding Like Claude: My Humanizer Setup

Make anything Claude writes for you read like a person wrote it, before anyone else sees it.

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So in the reel I showed my humanizer skill, the one that strips the tells out of Claude's writing before anybody reads it. This is the full setup, plus the two bits I've added so it runs on its own and nothing slips past.

What it does

  • It cuts the words nobody says. There's a list of 34 of them, the ones that make a normal paragraph sound like a press release.
  • It goes after the shapes. Em dashes, "it's not this, it's that", everything coming in threes, and five more patterns most rewrites miss.
  • The read-aloud test. Before it hands anything back, it checks a real person could say every line out loud without it sounding weird.
  • It quotes the tells back. You get a list of every tell it found in your draft, so you stop writing them yourself.

Before you start

  • Claude Code. The skill lives in ~/.claude/skills/, so every project gets it.
  • Node.js, for the checker script. Type node -v in your terminal to see if you've got it.

Install the skill

  1. Download the skill file: SKILL.txt.
  2. Make the folder and drop it in as SKILL.md. This assumes it landed in your Downloads folder:
Run this in your terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/humanizer && mv ~/Downloads/SKILL.txt ~/.claude/skills/humanizer/SKILL.md

Then use it. Type /humanizer with whatever you want rewritten, or just ask Claude to humanize something.

My tweak: run it by itself

I don't want to remember to ask every time, so this line in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md makes it kick in on anything going to another person:

Add this to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
Run the humanizer skill on any copy another person will read, like emails, proposals, captions and DMs, before it's final.

The checker script

Claude still misses one now and again, so a small script scans the final copy for every banned word, banned phrase and em dash. Download house-style.mjs, then run it on any text file:

Run this in your terminal
node house-style.mjs draft.txt

It prints each tell it finds, or clean when there's nothing left.

Your first run

Your first humanizer prompt
/humanizer rewrite this follow-up email for a client, and list every tell you took out

If you've got something you wrote yourself, paste it in with the draft and it'll match how you write.

To be honest, it's run over 80 times on my stuff since August, and pretty much everything I send goes through it now.

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