# Humanizer Human Guide

## What This Is For
Humanize AI-sounding writing and remove common AI-generated writing tells while preserving meaning, audience, and brand voice. It gives the agent a clearer input/output frame for humanizer: what context to ask for, what decisions to make, and what usable artifact to return.

Use this as a human-readable version of the Humanizer agent skill. It is meant for marketers, operators, founders, and other non-coders who want the workflow without reading agent-specific implementation instructions.

## When To Use This
- Use this when you need a repeatable process for humanizer.
- Use this when the task needs judgment, examples, constraints, or a clear output format rather than a one-off prompt.
- Use this when you want to hand an AI assistant enough context to produce a usable marketing artifact.

## When Not To Use This
- Do not use this when you only need a quick factual answer.
- Do not use this when the work depends on private data you cannot share with the assistant.
- Do not use this as a replacement for legal, compliance, financial, or medical review.

## What You Need Before Starting
- The goal or business outcome you want.
- The audience, customer segment, or market context.
- Any source material the assistant should respect, such as notes, briefs, examples, URLs, or brand guidance.
- Constraints such as tone, length, channel, deadline, region, or approval requirements.
- A clear definition of what a good final answer should look like.

## Step-By-Step Workflow
1. State the job clearly: "Use the Humanizer guide to help me with..."
2. Add context: audience, goal, offer, channel, source material, and constraints.
3. Ask the assistant to identify missing inputs before producing the final output.
4. Have the assistant follow the skill-specific guidance below.
5. Review the result against the final checklist and ask for revisions where needed.

## Skill-Specific Guidance
- `about/me.md` for personal writing style
- `strategy/brand.md` for brand voice, audience, and claims
- Any user-provided sample, file, or prior draft
- **Read for intent**: identify the audience, job of the piece, desired action, and non-negotiable claims.
- **Find AI tells**: mark the patterns that make the writing feel synthetic.
- **Rewrite once**: preserve meaning, claims, and structure where useful, but remove formulaic language.
- **Run an anti-AI audit**: ask, "What still makes this obviously AI generated?" Note the remaining tells briefly.
- **Rewrite again**: produce the final version with the audit fixed.
- directness, humor, edge, warmth, or restraint
- preferred plain words over polished substitutes
- transitions, asides, and recurring phrasing
- generic "challenges and future prospects" sections

## Decision Points And Nuance
The original skill emphasizes: Workspace Context, Operating Contract, Inputs, Workflow, Voice Calibration, Patterns to Remove, Inflated significance, Promotional filler, Fake depth, Vague attribution.

Use these questions to steer the work:
- What is the intended audience or buyer?
- What source material must be preserved?
- What should the assistant optimize for: clarity, persuasion, accuracy, speed, creativity, or conversion?
- What examples represent the desired quality bar?
- What should the assistant avoid?

## Common Mistakes
- You are a careful editor. Your job is to make writing sound like a real person wrote it, not to make it more polished for its own sake.
- Do not "upgrade" casual wording into corporate language. If the user writes "stuff," do not automatically change it to "initiatives" or "components."
- Watch for: "vibrant," "rich," "groundbreaking," "seamless," "powerful," "must-have," "nestled," "in the heart of," "showcasing," "commitment to."
- Do not invent personal experiences, customers, metrics, quotes, or sources.

## Copy-And-Paste Prompt
```text
Use the Humanizer human guide.

My goal:
[Describe the business outcome]

Audience:
[Describe who this is for]

Context and source material:
[Paste notes, examples, links, or existing copy]

Constraints:
[Tone, length, channel, timeline, must-include items, must-avoid items]

Before producing the final output, ask me for any missing information that would materially improve the result.
```

## Final Checklist
- [ ] The output matches the original goal.
- [ ] The audience and context are reflected in the answer.
- [ ] Important constraints and source material were preserved.
- [ ] The assistant made the relevant decisions explicit.
- [ ] The final artifact is ready to use, review, or hand to the next person.

## Source
This guide was generated from the manojbajaj95/claude-gtm-plugin skill entry for `humanizer`.

## Source Skill Notes
These notes preserve the nuance from the original skill. Use them as supporting reference when the workflow above feels too generic.

# Humanizer

## Workspace Context

Read bootstrap context before asking questions: `strategy/brand.md` for brand, audience, offer, channels, tools, constraints, and metrics; `about/me.md` for personal voice; `content/ideas.md` and `content/calendar.md` for content planning. Use legacy product-marketing context files only as fallback. Save generated drafts to `content/<platform>/drafts/YYYY-MM-DD_short-topic-slug.md`, and route durable learnings back to `strategy/brand.md`, `about/me.md`, or `content/ideas.md`.

## Operating Contract

This skill is self-contained for its frontmatter scope: use its local instructions, references, scripts, and assets as the playbook; ask only for missing task-specific inputs; hand off to adjacent skills instead of expanding scope; and return an actionable artifact, decision, plan, draft, or diagnostic.


You are a careful editor. Your job is to make writing sound like a real person wrote it, not to make it more polished for its own sake.

## Inputs

Use the text the user provides. Before asking questions, check:

- `about/me.md` for personal writing style
- `strategy/brand.md` for brand voice, audience, and claims
- Any user-provided sample, file, or prior draft

Ask only if the target voice, audience, or destination is genuinely unclear.

## Workflow

1. **Read for intent**: identify the audience, job of the piece, desired action, and non-negotiable claims.
2. **Find AI tells**: mark the patterns that make the writing feel synthetic.
3. **Rewrite once**: preserve meaning, claims, and structure where useful, but remove formulaic language.
4. **Run an anti-AI audit**: ask, "What still makes this obviously AI generated?" Note the remaining tells briefly.
5. **Rewrite again**: produce the final version with the audit fixed.

## Voice Calibration

If `about/me.md` or a user-provided sample exists, match it:

- sentence length and rhythm
- paragraph openings
- punctuation habits
- directness, humor, edge, warmth, or restraint
- preferred plain words over polished substitutes
- transitions, asides, and recurring phrasing

Do not "upgrade" casual wording into corporate language. If the user writes "stuff," do not automatically change it to "initiatives" or "components."

## Patterns to Remove

### Inflated significance

Watch for: "serves as," "stands as," "testament," "pivotal," "underscores," "broader trend," "evolving landscape," "lasting impact."

Fix by stating the concrete fact and why it matters, without pretending every detail is historic.

### Promotional filler

Watch for: "vibrant," "rich," "groundbreaking," "seamless," "powerful," "must-have," "nestled," "in the heart of," "showcasing," "commitment to."

Fix with specific evidence, plain nouns, and direct claims.

### Fake depth

Watch for -ing add-ons: "highlighting," "underscoring," "reflecting," "encompassing," "fostering," "ensuring."

Fix by splitting the sentence or deleting the fake analysis.

### Vague attribution

Watch for: "experts say," "industry reports suggest," "observers note," "some critics argue."

Fix with a named source, a real example, or remove the claim.

### AI vocabulary clusters

Watch for repeated use of: "additionally," "delve," "crucial," "intricate," "interplay," "landscape," "robust," "valuable," "key," "enhance," "leverage."

Fix with shorter, more ordinary words.

### Formulaic structure

Watch for: