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

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stop-slop

When your agent uses it

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

What it loads into context

Frontmatter

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SKILL.md

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When the skill is activated

Reference documents

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The playbook

  1. Core Rules
  2. Quick Checks
  3. Scoring
  4. Examples
  5. License

Files

  • CHANGELOG.mddoc895 bytes
  • LICENSEasset1,070 bytes
  • README.mddoc1,894 bytes
  • SKILL.mdcore2,629 bytes
  • references/examples.mddoc1,686 bytes
  • references/phrases.mddoc2,915 bytes
  • references/structures.mddoc5,255 bytes
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# Stop Slop

Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.

## Core Rules

1. **Cut filler phrases.** Remove throat-clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs. See [references/phrases.md](references/phrases.md).

2. **Break formulaic structures.** Avoid binary contrasts, negative listings, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups, false agency. See [references/structures.md](references/structures.md).

3. **Use active voice.** Every sentence needs a human subject doing something. No passive constructions. No inanimate objects performing human actions ("the complaint becomes a fix").

4. **Be specific.** No vague declaratives ("The reasons are structural"). Name the specific thing. No lazy extremes ("every," "always," "never") doing vague work.
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Repository facts

License
MIT
Created
Jan 11, 2026
Last pushed
Mar 17, 2026
Forks
1,376
Open issues
33
Project activity
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Before you install

Instructions only

Automated signals, not a guarantee

Checked Nov 2, 2026

  • No broad tool permissions
  • No dangerous shell commands
  • 5 network referencesin 2 files: SKILL.md:4 README.md:5
  • No hidden or obfuscated text
  • No instruction overrides
  • No executable scripts
  • No access to secrets
  • No requests to vote in Hot
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README.md

  • Network accessline 5
    <img width="3840" height="2160" alt="G-Yg4RVbIAAhVxW" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/902afc15-1f40-4a9d-af24-8cd67afb8ebf" />
  • Network accessline 58
    [Hardik Pandya](https://hvpandya.com)

SKILL.md

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    metadata:   trigger: Writing prose, editing drafts, reviewing content for AI patterns   author: Hardik Pandya (https://hvpandya.com)
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    trigger: Writing prose, editing drafts, reviewing content for AI patterns   author: Hardik Pandya (https://hvpandya.com) ---
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    author: Hardik Pandya (https://hvpandya.com)

How the signals fit together

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Signal confidence: 5 facts
  • Network access in prose of documentationREADME.md:5Low confidence
  • Network access in prose of documentationREADME.md:58Low confidence
  • Network access in the frontmatter of the SKILL.mdSKILL.md:4Low confidence
  • Network access in the frontmatter of the SKILL.mdSKILL.md:5Low confidence
  • Network access in the frontmatter of the SKILL.mdSKILL.md:6Low confidence

Works with

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CodexCompatibleStandard SKILL.md SKILL.md.agents/skills/<skill-name>/
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OpenCodeCompatibleStandard SKILL.md SKILL.md.opencode/skills/<skill-name>/
  • Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
  • Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
  • Unknown No evidence either way.

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