renwei-writing (人味儿写作)
An AI agent skill — “edit people’s words without erasing the person behind them.” Packaged as
a portable skill (a SKILL.md methodology + supporting files, loaded via
progressive disclosure), it targets a specific failure mode of generative editing: “AI 改完
之后…一遍比一遍缺人味儿” — each AI revision strips more of the author’s voice, converging on
polished but impersonal prose. First-party project repo (tier T1). URL-only ingest.
What it is
- The skill (
SKILL.md) — the methodology: definitions, editing rules, and documented edge cases for revising text while preserving the writer’s distinctive voice (“人味儿” = human essence). post-edit-checklist.md— a post-revision checklist adapted from Wikipedia’s “Signs of AI writing,” i.e. a verification pass that checks the output for tell-tale homogenization rather than trusting the edit.case-study.md— a before/after showing a failed (voice-erasing) revision and the corrected version.- License: free for personal use; commercial closed-source use requires licensing.
Why it belongs here
- The augment pole, applied to writing. It’s a close cousin of lathe: the same primitive (loadable skills) aimed at the opposite of automation — not “AI writes for you” but “AI edits without overwriting the human.” Where Lathe keeps the human doing the work (hand-typed tutorials), renwei-writing keeps the human audible in the work. Both are the augment, not replace counter-current (augmenting-human-intellect, cross-wiki) — evidence that “skills” are pole-agnostic: the load-on-demand unit serves homogenizing automation and anti-homogenization alike.
- Output-grounded verification, again. Its post-edit checklist mirrors ai-job-search‘s “read the rendered artifact” discipline — verify the result (does it still sound human?) against a concrete rubric, not the model’s say-so. Here the rubric is Wikipedia’s AI-writing tells.
- A new skills host — Cola. It installs to
~/.cola/skills/renwei-writing— i.e. the Cola agent framework, a host not previously seen in this spoke (alongside Claude Code, ADK, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, Kiro). AnotherSKILL.md-style directory convention is a fresh data point for the standardization-reach question: each new host either ratifies the portable-skill attractor or adds one more vendor-native~/.<tool>/skills/dir to the fragmentation.
Caveat
A single skill repo, not a benchmarked method — efficacy of the “preserve voice” rules is asserted via one case study. Cola itself isn’t sourced here yet (page it if more arrives).
Related
lathe · agentskills-spec · agent-skills · ai-job-search · augmenting-human-intellect · synthesis