essay-scan
Check whether a passage of an application essay sounds like AI wrote it.
Skill by dhruvaldarji
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Install
Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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Files it touches
~/.claude/skills/essay-scan
What's inside
- Skill name
essay-scan- Description
- Check whether a passage of an application essay sounds like AI wrote it. Use when the user asks if their essay, paragraph, or personal statement sounds robotic, generic, like ChatGPT, or like AI, or asks what gives it away. Quotes each tell, names the pattern, and flags flat or monotone prose. Does not rewrite.
- License
- MIT
- Instructions
- 20 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (1)
- SKILL.md
SKILL.md (first lines)
# essay-scan
The plugin root is `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` in Claude Code. In Codex and other runtimes it is two
directories above this file. Paths below are relative to that root.
1. Read `review/AITellScan.md` and the humanizer catalog at `skills/humanizer/SKILL.md`.
2. Take the text the user gave, or read `artifacts/<essay_id>/Drafts.md` when they name an essay.
3. Walk the catalog strongest first. For each hit, quote the exact span and name the pattern and
why it reads as machine-written. Patterns 1 to 5 count on one sighting. Weaker patterns count
only when two land in the same paragraph.
4. Then check for flat prose. The signs are no reaction or specific detail, sentences of the same
length, or four sentences in a row that open with the same word.
5. If the text belongs to an EssayOS essay, upsert the findings into `ReviewerFeedback.md` as
`review/AITellScan.md` describes. Otherwise, only report.
Reply in plain English. Quote each span, name the pattern, and give the direction of the fix. Do
not rewrite the passage unless the user asks. Do not add any fact the user did not give. If the
user wants the essay revised in their own voice, point them to `essay-ingest`.From dhruvaldarji/essayos, MIT.
More from dhruvaldarji/essayos
- 0.524score
essay-ingest
dhruvaldarji
Review or improve an essay the user already wrote.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.524score
essayos
dhruvaldarji
Any request about an application essay, personal statement, statement of purpose, scholarship essay, residency or fellowship statement, or cover letter goes…
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-lint
dhruvaldarji
Self-test the EssayOS package.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-resume
dhruvaldarji
Resume an interrupted EssayOS essay from the files on disk.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-status
dhruvaldarji
Show where an EssayOS essay stands.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-next
dhruvaldarji
Advance an EssayOS essay by one verified step.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-init
dhruvaldarji
Start a new EssayOS essay workspace.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9
Signals
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit (this folder)
- Sep 19, 2026 (1 month ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/dhruvaldarji/essayos
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
More from dhruvaldarji
- 0.524score
essay-ingest
dhruvaldarji
Review or improve an essay the user already wrote.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.524score
essayos
dhruvaldarji
Any request about an application essay, personal statement, statement of purpose, scholarship essay, residency or fellowship statement, or cover letter goes…
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-lint
dhruvaldarji
Self-test the EssayOS package.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-resume
dhruvaldarji
Resume an interrupted EssayOS essay from the files on disk.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-status
dhruvaldarji
Show where an EssayOS essay stands.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9 - 0.519score
essay-next
dhruvaldarji
Advance an EssayOS essay by one verified step.
SkillBFreshness: BClaude Code +9
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essay-scan skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/dhruvaldarji-essay-scan (last updated 2026-10-24)