ccf-humanization
mikubaka88/ccfa-skills
Preflight baseline for CCFA skills: direct reasoning, remove defensive framing, preserve evidence and uncertainty.
What is ccf-humanization?
A required initialization step before using any CCFA skill (research, review, retrieval, experiments, visuals, maintenance). It establishes collaboration contracts, file management conventions, and prose standards that prioritize direct scientific communication over defensive hedging while preserving rigor, uncertainty, and citations.
- Applies family baseline rules to remove empty defensive framing and apologetic language from technical writing
- Establishes canonical working directories and file-management conventions across CCFA task handoffs
- Enforces collaboration contracts and handoff modes to coordinate multiple contributors and specialist skills
- Preserves scientific rigor by retaining meaningful uncertainty, negative results, citations, and actual limitations
- Provides prose-editing workflow for manuscripts and experiment descriptions without inventing new evidence
- Activates ccf-common preflight and coordinates specialist skill ownership
How to install ccf-humanization
npx skills add https://github.com/mikubaka88/ccfa-skills --skill ccf-humanization- ccf-common skill must be activated after this preflight
- Access to project root or designated working directory for ccfa-workfiles/
- References directory with humanization-policy.md and experiment-discipline.md (if doing prose or experiment edits)
How to use ccf-humanization
- 1.Run this skill first before any other CCFA specialist skill in your workflow
- 2.Apply the Family Baseline rules: communicate directly, remove defensive framing, preserve evidence and uncertainty
- 3.Establish your canonical working directory using the ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/ structure
- 4.If editing prose or experiments, follow the Workflow steps (identify artifact, recover scientific message, remove repeated caveats, preserve material facts)
- 5.Activate ccf-common and proceed to your specialist task; reuse applicable baseline rules across handoffs
- 6.For blocking decisions, use the Warning Contract format to isolate unresolved claims without modifying artifacts
Use cases
- Initialize a multi-contributor CCFA project before running specialized research or review skills
- Revise defensive or hedging language in scientific manuscripts while maintaining factual accuracy and citations
- Standardize working directories and artifact paths across different CCFA skill transitions
- Audit experiment descriptions to remove apologetic framing while preserving full method comparisons and ablations
- Establish baseline communication rules before collaborative writing or review tasks involving multiple agents
- Research teams using CCFA multi-skill workflows
- Authors revising scientific manuscripts or experiment reports
- Project leads coordinating handoffs between specialist skills
- Teams writing in English or Chinese requiring consistent prose standards
ccf-humanization FAQ
Yes. It is the first required preflight before any CCFA specialist skill, including planning, retrieval, review, rendering, and maintenance. It activates once per task without recursive re-entry.
family-preflight applies the baseline and activates ccf-common before specialist work (no artifact required). manuscript-humanization revises defensive prose in actual documents while preserving scientific content and source format.
It depends on the mode. family-preflight is initialization only. manuscript-humanization and experiment-humanization follow a structured workflow to remove defensive framing while preserving rigor, but specialist skills retain ownership of their content.
Empty assurances, imagined objections, apologetic novelty positioning, stacked hedging, repeated scope disclaimers, and obligatory cautionary endings. Meaningful uncertainty, actual limitations, citations, and negative results are preserved.
It establishes shared file paths, collaboration contracts, and handoff modes. Other specialist skills reuse applicable baseline rules and maintain their own ownership; this skill does not duplicate or override their work.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from mikubaka88/ccfa-skills.
name: ccf-humanization description: "Required first preflight before every CCFA skill, including research, review, retrieval, experiments, visuals, and maintenance. Keep reasoning and communication direct, remove empty defensive framing, and preserve evidence and uncertainty. Also use for 去防御性 and 论文人性化. Apply prose edits only within the authorized task; specialist skills retain ownership." metadata: ccf_skill_controls: handoff_question_mode: partial respect_session_denylists: true protect_idea_scope_in_writing: true private_material_safety: moderate shared_controls: ../ccf-common/references/
CCF Humanization
Family File Contract
Before writing, resolve the canonical output and one stable working directory per task/artifact. Reuse explicit or established task paths; otherwise use project-root ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/, with source/, assets/, cache/, and build/ only as needed. Update current files in place; do not scatter intermediates or create iteration copies. Preserve inputs and required evidence; clean only verified disposable files created by this task. Use UTF-8 text I/O and check Chinese text after saving or rendering. For file work, apply artifact-contracts.md and reuse the same paths across skill transitions.
Collaboration Contract
This is the first required family preflight. Apply the baseline below, then activate ccf-common before specialist work. The two preflights bootstrap once without recursively re-entering each other; reuse applicable rules across contributors.
Keep one integrating owner and actively use other skills to resolve missing prerequisites or check material findings. Reuse applicable evidence; do not skip necessary groundwork to save tokens. Before finalizing, integrate contributions and verify affected results. Follow the conditional cooperation routes; avoid unrelated stages and duplicate reports.
Invocation Controls
CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended). Follow metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode, ../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md, and ../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md.
Activate this first for every CCFA task and contributor, including planning, retrieval, review, auditing, rendering, scaffolding, and maintenance. Apply the family baseline below before ccf-common and specialist execution. Reuse an already loaded, applicable baseline at handoffs; refresh changed or lost rules. Prose editing and experiment checks depend on the actual task, but baseline activation is universal. Specialist skills retain ownership and explicit user/host constraints still apply.
Family Baseline
Read and apply this entry's baseline before specialist work. Communicate the concrete task, evidence, and decisions directly; avoid imagined objections, empty assurances, repetitive warnings, and unnecessary process narration. Preserve real risks, critical review findings, uncertainty, scientific facts, source quotations, and mandatory checks. Do not turn critical assessment into praise or change scores to sound less defensive. Review-only tasks diagnose without rewriting; non-prose tasks apply these rules without inventing a prose-edit pass. Enable only relevant detailed modes below. This preflight creates no report, warning file, or separate agent by default.
Core Rule
Write the scientific argument directly: problem, insight, mechanism, evidence, and supported implication. Remove authorial self-defense, imagined reviewer objections, apologetic novelty positioning, denial-led statements, empty assurances, stacked hedging, repeated scope disclaimers, and obligatory cautionary endings. Replace a defensive sentence with its scientific payload or delete it if it adds none.
Humanization preserves rigor: retain meaningful uncertainty, actual assumptions, negative results, protocol facts, citations, equations, numbers, terminology, and required disclosures. Do not turn suggests into proves, omit a known failure, or hide a real comparison limitation. Do not treat isolated words such as only, not, or may as errors.
Keep method confirmation and version-gate status internal. Describe the actual method and relevant configuration naturally. Use supplied specifications for method drafting, cited evidence for prior work, and verified full configurations for reported comparisons; do not require new experiments just to edit supported prose.
Modes
family-preflight: always apply the baseline before any CCFA specialist; no manuscript or experiment artifact is required.manuscript-humanization: revise defensive prose while preserving scientific content and source format.experiment-humanization: apply the same prose standard to final experiment descriptions and tables; preserve full-method comparisons and labeled ablations.warning-only: identify a concrete unresolved scientific decision without modifying its dependent artifact.
Workflow
For family-preflight, apply the baseline, ensure ccf-common is active, and continue the requested specialist task. The following editing workflow applies only when the task includes relevant prose or experiment artifacts; do not run it merely to complete the universal preflight.
- Identify the requested artifact, existing authorization, and whether the input is prose, a proposed design, or reported results. Read
references/humanization-policy.mdfor the sentence decisions and bilingual repair examples. - Recover each paragraph's scientific message. State the observation, operation, assumption, or inference directly. Delete empty self-defense instead of moving it into a warning block.
- Remove repeated caveats across sections. Express scope where it changes interpretation; do not require every abstract, paragraph, caption, or conclusion to end with a limitation.
- Preserve material facts and calibrated uncertainty in the authorized edit. If a decision requires new evidence or a research-scope change, isolate that decision and continue unaffected work. Do not edit a source file merely to encode a warning.
- For actual publication comparisons or executable experiment changes, load
references/experiment-discipline.md. Preserve a verified identity and full configuration in the internal gate; keep legitimate ablations clearly labeled. Run this step only when the task needs it. - Apply the existing punctuation and terminology preferences after the scientific argument is sound. For full sections or papers, run
../ccf-paper-writer/scripts/check_prose_quality.pywhen available and inspect its candidate locations in context. Do not rewrite correct scientific language merely to clear a heuristic warning. - Read the final prose once. Check that rhetorical caution has not been replaced by hype, factual omission, or a different scientific claim. Rerun a check only for changed text or an unresolved finding.
- Return the requested artifact in its original format. When acting as a sidecar, return ownership to the content skill; do not append a process report to ordinary prose.
Warning Contract
Use only for a concrete decision that cannot be resolved from supplied evidence and existing authorization:
CCF Humanization Warning: not inserted into artifacts
Affected claim / file / experiment:
Evidence gap and material consequence:
Decision needed:
Materiality: advisory / blocking
File changes made for this warning: none
blocking applies to the dependent claim or change, not the entire task. Style choices, already documented limitations, and accurate local claim narrowing are ordinary authorized edits.
References
references/humanization-policy.md: direct scientific voice, sentence/paragraph repair, bilingual examples, material facts, warning-only decisions, punctuation, and checksum policy.references/experiment-discipline.md: full-method comparisons, supplied specifications, ablations, and proportionate smoke checks.
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