You want to create the skill as soon as possible so that your writing doesn't look like AI wrote it. 

There are two parts to this skill:

1. A summary of your actual writing style generated by AI based on your writing
2. A 'humanizer' skill that prevents the AI from using typical AI writing conventions and  patterns. 

# Your Writing Style
To get the summary of your own writing style, prepare text files containing samples of your writing. They can be text, markdown, Word or Google Docs. 
Go back through your documents, social media posts, blog posts, articles, as well as your longer emails. Really short emails likely aren't that helpful. 

Once you have them all assembled, use a prompt like this:

```
Read and analyze the attached documents (or the documents in this folder) and summarize my writing style so I can create a reusable writing skill
```

Once you have the summary of your writing style, use one of these prompts to create the writing skill:

For Claude Code or Cowork:

```
Use /skill-creator and create me a writing skill I can use when I write. Use the content in writing-style-inputs.md combined with the Humanizer instructions as the core instructions. 
```

For Codex:

```
Create a reusable writing skill I can use when I write. Use the content in writing-style-inputs.md combined with the Humanizer instructions as the core instructions. 
```

# About Humanizer
[Humanizer](https://github.com/blader/humanizer) is based on [Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing) guide, maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup. This comprehensive guide comes from observations of thousands of instances of AI-generated text. It identifies 29 patterns common to AI-generated writing. 

### Key Insight from Wikipedia

> "LLMs use statistical algorithms to guess what should come next. The result tends toward the most statistically likely result that applies to the widest variety of cases."


# Humanizer Skill Text
[[Humanizer skill - full version|Here is the long, full text of the Humanizer skill]] that you should include in your writing skill. You can download the markdown file or copy it to a Word file and point to it in your prompt from above. 

If you want [[Humanizer skill - short|a shorter version of the Humanizer skill, try this]] but I haven't compared or tested them.