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A living banlist of the words, phrases and structural tics that signal AI-generated writing. Source for claudisms.ai. CC0.

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Claudisms

A living banlist of the words, phrases, and structural tics that signal AI-generated writing - the ones to flag and scrub from a draft before it goes out.

Published at claudisms.ai, deployed automatically from this repository. Released into the public domain under CC0 1.0 - copy it, fork it, wire it into your own tooling, no attribution required.

Use it

File What it's for
claudisms.json The source of truth. Every entry, machine-readable. Build tooling against this.
template.html The page shell - layout, styling, copy. Edit this to change anything that isn't an entry.
claudisms.md The same list as Markdown, for reading or pasting into a style guide.
index.html The published page.
llms.txt, sitemap.xml Machine-readable pointers for crawlers.

claudisms.md, index.html, llms.txt and sitemap.xml are generated - from claudisms.json and template.html. Don't edit them by hand; your changes will be overwritten on the next build. CI rebuilds and compares all four, so drift can't ship.

Pull the list straight from the site:

curl -s https://claudisms.ai/claudisms.json

Each entry looks like this:

{
  "id": "sit-with",
  "term": "sit with",
  "display": "\"sit with\" / \"worth sitting with\"",
  "aliases": ["sit with", "worth sitting with"],
  "category": "Confirmed Claudisms",
  "definition": "- reflective-pose filler. Sounds thoughtful; doesn't say anything.",
  "url": "https://claudisms.ai/#sit-with"
}

aliases are the strings a scanner should match on. display is the heading as it appears on the page. definition keeps its own leading separator so entries that continue their heading mid-sentence still read correctly.

Build

python3 build.py           # regenerate claudisms.md and index.html from the JSON
python3 build.py --check   # exit 1 if the generated files are out of date

No dependencies beyond the Python standard library. CI runs --check on every pull request, so a change to claudisms.json has to ship with its regenerated output.

Contribute

New entries are welcome - see CONTRIBUTING.md for the bar an entry has to clear and how to open a pull request.

Why this exists

Models reach for the same small set of moves, and once you can name them you stop shipping them. For the thinking behind it, read Your Name Is Still on It.