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Agent Skills: Stop Slop

Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.

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Skill Metadata

Name
stop-slop
Description
This skill should be used when the user wants to remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.

Stop Slop

Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.

Original: https://github.com/hardikpandya/stop-slop by Hardik Pandya (MIT License)

Core Rules

  1. Cut filler phrases. Remove throat-clearing openers and emphasis crutches. See references/phrases.md.

  2. Avoid AI words. Words overused by AI that signal machine-generated text. See references/words.md.

  3. Break formulaic structures. Avoid binary contrasts, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups. See references/structures.md.

  4. Vary rhythm. Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently.

  5. Trust readers. State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding.

  6. Cut quotables. If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it.

Quick Checks

Before delivering prose:

  • Three consecutive sentences match length? Break one.
  • Paragraph ends with punchy one-liner? Vary it.
  • Em-dash before a reveal? Remove it.
  • Explaining a metaphor? Trust it to land.

Scoring

Rate 1-10 on each dimension:

| Dimension | Question | |-----------|----------| | Directness | Statements or announcements? | | Rhythm | Varied or metronomic? | | Trust | Respects reader intelligence? | | Authenticity | Sounds human? | | Density | Anything cuttable? |

Below 35/50: revise.

Examples

See references/examples.md for before/after transformations.