STE80 Humanizer - De-AI text with ASD-STE100 simplified English
Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100
STE80 Humanizer is an agent skill that rewrites AI-generated text so it reads like a careful human wrote it, without changing the meaning. It runs two passes: first it strips the 26 known AI tells from Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" catalog, then it rebuilds sentences 80% of the way to ASD-STE100, the controlled English used in aircraft maintenance manuals that Andrej Karpathy recommended for readability. The result is short sentences, one idea each, active voice, and plain words. Install it via the skills CLI for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any agent, then call /ste80-humanizer on your text.
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.
- wavemode
This is a de-AI-izer, not a "humanizer". It removes AI tics, it doesn't add human voice.
This tool appears primarily designed to produce text that's clearer and more concise, not to produce text that fools someone into thinking a human wrote it.
- bushido
Curious how this is different from simple english [0][1]. I've tested that one across multiple harnesses, and it works pretty well.
- nphardon
wow even just asking it for 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 makes a huge difference in readability. I'm experiencing way less brain fog trying to read opus.