Russian Prose Local Edit (humanizer-ru)
A surgical editing skill that strips formulaic, machine-sounding patterns from Russian prose while preserving meaning, hedging and authorial voice.
What it does
Instead of rewriting a Russian text wholesale, it edits only the spots that actually hurt the reader.
- Reads the whole text first and identifies its purpose, register and the stance already taken.
- For each problematic passage it builds a working note:
exact quote → concrete reader-facing problem → local action. - Four actions: KEEP (leave working passages alone), TRIM (remove the shell around a claim), REPLACE (say the same thing more clearly), JOIN (collapse duplicated neighbouring phrases).
- Targets classic AI/bureaucratic tells: sentences that announce a thought instead of stating it, conclusions repeated with emphasis, self-praise for honesty, straw-man opponents, officialese, empty intensifiers, vague imagery. A word alone is never grounds for surgery — contrast, repetition or a list may be doing real work.
- Runs a claim-by-claim diff against the source: who does what, whether an action happened/completed or is only planned, frequency, scale, exceptions, negations, confidence, causality and ordering, numbers with units and conditions, the author's judgement and lived experience, and practical items (calls to action, limits, deadlines, contacts).
- Quotes, code, links, names and identifiers are preserved verbatim.
Who it's for
- Anyone writing Russian blogs, newsletters, product copy or reports
- People de-AI-ifying LLM-generated Russian drafts
- Editors and localization specialists working into Russian
Examples
- "Clean the empty rhetoric out of this Russian landing-page copy" → returns the edited text with tone untouched.
- "Don't edit — just audit" → returns findings as quotes plus suggested actions.
- "Make sure «новый порядок может уменьшить число возвратов» still reads as a possibility after trimming" → hedging is restored to the source's exact strength.
Note: external fact-checking is explicitly out of scope, and the output is editorial observation — not an AI-authorship verdict.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ilyautov/humanizer-ru/HEAD/eval/candidates/local-edit/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the eval/candidates/local-edit folder from the GitHub repo ilyautov/humanizer-ru into my ~/.claude/skills/humanizer-ru-local-edit/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/ilyautov/humanizer-ru.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/humanizer-ru-local-edit && cp -r humanizer-ru/eval/candidates/local-edit/* ~/.claude/skills/humanizer-ru-local-edit/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal.
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/ilyautov/humanizer-ru.git - Create the skill folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/humanizer-ru-local-edit - Copy the files:
cp -r humanizer-ru/eval/candidates/local-edit/* ~/.claude/skills/humanizer-ru-local-edit/ - Verify with
ls ~/.claude/skills/humanizer-ru-local-edit— you should seeSKILL.md. - Restart Claude Code, paste your Russian text and ask it to "edit this Russian prose that sounds machine-generated" to trigger the skill.