Ismail AI Review

From the documentation of the field

Attribution: Ismail AI Review's rule catalogue is adapted from the essay Signs of AI writing, written by Wikipedia's WikiProject AI Cleanup. The Wikipedia material is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ismail AI Review is a house-style checklist for spotting and removing the fingerprints that AI writing tools leave in text. It is one of two protocols in the IsmailsProtocols repository, and it is packaged as a Claude Skill so that it can be run. This site uses it on its own writing, as review discipline describes.

What it does

The checklist reviews a piece of text and rewrites it to remove the patterns it finds. It is a style pass. Claims, numbers, names and facts stay exactly as they were, and an argument is neither softened nor strengthened. What it returns depends on what was asked. A request to check or flag issues gets a list of findings. A request to fix or polish gets the rewritten text first. An open request gets both.

The source essay is a field guide for detecting AI-generated text. Ismail AI Review reorganises it into prescriptive rules for writing, so that the question becomes how to avoid the patterns.

How it is organised

The catalogue has 21 rules in five parts: content and substance, language and grammar, formatting and punctuation, communication and provenance, and sourcing and citations. It also has a quick-reference list of words and phrases to strike on sight, and a short self-check to run before delivering a piece of writing.

The rules themselves are in the repository and are not reproduced here.

What it deliberately does not police

The catalogue includes a section on signals that are unreliable, and it is there by design. Grammatical polish, a single transition word or a formal tone on their own are not treated as evidence of AI writing. The reasoning is that flagging a false positive erodes trust in the rest of a review faster than missing a real fingerprint does. A review that cries wolf on ordinary good writing teaches the writer to ignore it.

Licence and share-alike

The repository's rule content is released under CC BY 4.0, which asks for credit to Muhammed Ismail. Ismail AI Review carries one further obligation. Because its catalogue is adapted from the Wikipedia essay, adaptations of the parts traceable to that source must carry the same share-alike term forward and be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. The licence file sets out the terms in full.