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Add humanizer skill for AI writing pattern detection (#50021)
## Summary

Add a standalone **humanizer** skill based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI
writing" guide that detects and fixes 24 common AI-writing patterns.
Also update brand-writer to recommend running humanizer as a
pre-validation step for high-stakes content.

## Details

**New skill: `/humanizer`**
- Detects 24 AI-writing anti-patterns from Wikipedia's guide (maintained
by WikiProject AI Cleanup)
- Covers content patterns (significance inflation, vague attributions),
language patterns (copula avoidance, synonym cycling), style patterns
(em dash overuse, boldface), and communication patterns (chatbot
artifacts, sycophantic tone)
- Includes a two-pass audit workflow: draft rewrite → "What makes this
obviously AI generated?" → final revision
- Adds guidance on injecting "soul" and personality, not just removing
bad patterns

**Updated: brand-writer**
- Added Phase 4 "Humanizer Pass" recommending `/humanizer` for
high-stakes content (homepage, announcements, product pages)
- Phases renumbered (Validation is now Phase 5)

## Attribution

Based on [blader/humanizer](https://github.com/blader/humanizer) and
[Wikipedia:Signs of AI
writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing).

Release Notes:

- N/A
2026-02-24 14:58:52 -06:00
.cargo ci: Update typos versions and fix new occurrences (#40784) 2025-10-21 10:43:22 +00:00
.cloudflare docs: Document context servers (#21170) 2024-11-25 11:05:14 -05:00
.config git: Side-by-side diff UI (#47349) 2026-01-22 02:31:14 -05:00
.factory Add humanizer skill for AI writing pattern detection (#50021) 2026-02-24 14:58:52 -06:00
.github extension_ci: Remove merge-base fork-point flag in version check (#50014) 2026-02-24 18:37:20 +00:00
.zed gpui: Rewrite Windows PlatformTextSystem for better performance (#48087) 2026-02-01 13:32:22 +01:00
assets Update Mistral AI provider icon (#49793) 2026-02-21 08:41:28 +00:00
ci Move Nightly release to gh-workflow (#41349) 2025-10-28 13:57:23 -06:00
crates git: Fix panic on duplicate status entries in git status parsing (#49191) 2026-02-24 15:16:24 -05:00
docs Update linux.md to add Ubuntu community packages (#49654) 2026-02-24 11:08:10 +00:00
extensions languages: Add syntax highlighting for HTML character references (#48629) 2026-02-22 23:40:18 -05:00
legal Fix the markdown table (#38729) 2025-09-23 16:49:45 +00:00
nix build: Add cargo timing script to devshell (#49941) 2026-02-24 02:46:26 +00:00
script Better cargo wrapper (#49946) 2026-02-24 05:13:04 +00:00
tooling extension_ci: Remove merge-base fork-point flag in version check (#50014) 2026-02-24 18:37:20 +00:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs Add PR 15352 to .git-blame-ignore-revs (#30870) 2025-05-17 11:35:58 +00:00
.gitattributes windows: Make sure zed.sh using the correct line ending (#37650) 2025-09-05 16:25:55 +00:00
.gitignore docs: Improve Git documentation accuracy and structure (#47419) 2026-01-23 08:43:24 -08:00
.mailmap Update .mailmap (#47413) 2026-01-22 23:57:26 +05:30
.prettierrc ci: Add check for formatting default.json (#30034) 2025-05-06 18:55:26 +00:00
.rules Update AI docs for retired hosted models (#49486) 2026-02-18 10:36:38 -06:00
AGENTS.md ai: Symlink an AGENTS.md file to .rules (#45939) 2026-01-19 15:29:42 +01:00
Cargo.lock workspace: Invert dependency on call crate by extracting into a trait (#49968) 2026-02-24 11:19:34 +00:00
Cargo.toml repl: Bump nbformat to v1.1.0 (#49787) 2026-02-21 20:08:39 +01:00
CLAUDE.md Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
clippy.toml Revert "Revert scheduler update (#46659)" (#46671) 2026-01-14 07:19:13 +00:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Remove community content from docs and point to zed.dev (#19895) 2024-10-29 09:44:58 -04:00
compose.yml Remove Postgres and stripe-mock from Docker Compose (#48313) 2026-02-04 03:42:58 +00:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Surface UI checklist in CONTRIBUTING.md (#49013) 2026-02-12 10:08:49 +00:00
debug.plist
default.nix nix: Use flake-parts, partitions, and treefmt-nix (#45321) 2026-02-02 14:26:42 +00:00
Dockerfile-collab build: Bump Rust version to 1.93 (#47358) 2026-01-23 13:22:41 +01:00
Dockerfile-collab.dockerignore
Dockerfile-cross.dockerignore Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-distros
Dockerfile-distros.dockerignore
flake.lock nix: Use flake-parts, partitions, and treefmt-nix (#45321) 2026-02-02 14:26:42 +00:00
flake.nix Try to improve nix caching (#48297) 2026-02-03 20:31:02 -07:00
GEMINI.md Add missing GEMINI.md rule file for gemini-cli (#38885) 2025-10-02 09:47:29 -04:00
LICENSE-AGPL Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-APACHE Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-GPL
livekit.yaml
lychee.toml ci: Check for broken links (#30844) 2025-06-06 09:39:35 +00:00
Procfile Update instructions for local collaboration (#35689) 2025-08-06 11:10:28 -07:00
Procfile.all Add agent thread sharing (#46140) 2026-01-06 12:49:51 -08:00
Procfile.web Remove PostgREST (#41299) 2025-10-27 13:27:59 -04:00
README.md Add sponsor button to main Zed repo (#46807) 2026-01-14 10:38:51 -06:00
renovate.json Remove workspace-hack (#40216) 2025-10-17 18:58:14 +00:00
REVIEWERS.conl Remove previous teammates from REVIEWERS.conl (#46934) 2026-01-15 18:43:34 +00:00
rust-toolchain.toml toolchain: Include rust-src in the rust-toolchain components (#48210) 2026-02-02 21:07:42 +00:00
rustfmt.toml nix: Use flake-parts, partitions, and treefmt-nix (#45321) 2026-02-02 14:26:42 +00:00
shell.nix nix: Use flake-parts, partitions, and treefmt-nix (#45321) 2026-02-02 14:26:42 +00:00
typos.toml gpui: Extract gpui_platform out of gpui (#49277) 2026-02-19 18:57:49 +01:00

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