Dodaios/ste80-humanizer
STE80 Humanizer: agent skill that removes AI tells and rewrites text 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English), the method Andrej Karpathy shared.
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[](https://skills.sh/Dodaios/ste80-humanizer) [](https://github.com/Dodaios/ste80-humanizer/actions/workflows/validate.yml) [](LICENSE) STE80 Humanizer makes AI-written text read like a careful person wrote it, without changing what it says. It combines two methods: Before: After: The goal is text that people read easily. Getting past AI detectors is not a goal. Most humanizers only remove phrases. The text loses "Great question!" and "seamless", but it keeps long sentences that carry three ideas, hide the actor and stack hedges. It still reads like AI. You can see it in the worked example in SKILL.md: On 2 October 2026, Andrej Karpathy posted tips for one problem: as LLMs do more of the work, people spend more time reading and understanding what the models produce. His first tip: The post then goes up a ladder: diagrams, then HTML pages, then explainer videos. His conclusion is that our work moves "up the abstractions into oversight and understanding". Clear output is the bottleneck, and…
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- STE80 Humanizer
- Why two passes
- The method: what Karpathy said
- How to read the skill
- Installation
- Any agent (skills.sh)
- Claude Code plugin
- Claude.ai and Claude Desktop
- Usage
- Pass 1: the 26 AI tells
- Pass 2: the 15 STE80 rules
- Checker
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What this repository does
STE80 Humanizer: agent skill that removes AI tells and rewrites text 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English), the method Andrej Karpathy shared.
Repository facts
- Owner
- Dodaios
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 499
- Forks
- 29
- Open issues + pull requests
- 0
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-11-09T17:18:59.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-10T08:52:47.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: agent-skills, ai-writing, asd-ste100, claude-code, claude-skills, codex, cursor, humanize-ai-text, humanizer, karpathy, llm, plain-language, simplified-technical-english, writing
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