Stop Slop
Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
Install
npx skills add hardikpandya/stop-slop --skill stop-slopgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardikpandya/stop-slop.git /tmp/stop-slop
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/stop-slop/. ~/.claude/skills/stop-slopPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# 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.
5. **Put the reader in the room.** No narrator-from-a-distance voice. "You" beats "People." Specifics beat abstractions.
6. **Vary rhythm.** Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently. No em dashes.
7. **Trust readers.** State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding.
8. **Cut quotables.** If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it.
## Quick Checks
Before delivering prose:
- Any adverbs? Kill them.
- Any passive voice? Find the actor, make them the subject.
- Inanimate thing doing a human verb ("the decision emerges")? Name the person.
- Sentence starts with a Wh- word? Restructure it.
- Any "here's what/this/that" throat-clearing? Cut to the point.Details
- Skill name
stop-slop- Repository
- hardikpandya/stop-slop
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 17 March 2026
FAQ
What does the Stop Slop skill do?
Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
How do I install the Stop Slop skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add hardikpandya/stop-slop --skill stop-slop. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Stop Slop popular?
It lives in hardikpandya/stop-slop, which has 18,493 GitHub stars and 1,360 forks.
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