A copyediting skill that scrubs AI-ese from Traditional Chinese

What it does

speak-human-tw is a Markdown skill you load into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. It acts like a picky copyeditor for Traditional Chinese, scanning text for 35-odd AI writing tells—emoji pileups, hollow signposting (“值得注意的是”), false epiphanies, sermonizing closers, and mainland terminology—then proposing rewrites that sound like a person talking. It also handles Taiwan localization, swapping China-specific vocabulary and half-width punctuation for their zh-TW equivalents.

The interesting bit

The default workflow is deliberately two-stage: the agent must first present a numbered list of every AI-ism it found and wait for your go-ahead before changing a single line. In non-interactive mode it auto-applies, but leaves a paper trail so you can git diff the damage. That design treats “accidentally overwriting the original” as a bigger risk than missing a cliché.

Key highlights

• Detects 35+ AI writing patterns across content, syntax, style, and formatting, from utm_source=chatgpt.com artifacts to “綜上所述” closers
• Protects a user-defined lock list—prices, promo codes, proper nouns, quoted speech—so facts survive the rewrite
• Bundles a 60+ term Taiwan localization layer that corrects mainland vocabulary and enforces full-width punctuation
• Scores longform drafts on a 5-dimension rubric and refuses to “submit” anything scoring under 35/50
• Ships with a 40-case benchmark and explicit before/after examples for newsletters, social posts, and customer service replies

Verdict

Grab this if you publish in Traditional Chinese and are tired of AI output that smells like a motivational poster. Skip it if you want a ghostwriter; it explicitly refuses to invent facts or impersonate your personality.