slopbuster: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

slopbuster CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from gabelul/slopbuster. It costs 779 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A markdown-only skill that removes common AI-generated patterns from text, code, and academic writing. It has separate rules for each mode and works with several coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing prose, source code, or academic writing; applying a two-pass audit; and checking the result against its scoring rules.
Why use it?
It helps make generated writing and code less formulaic, while its academic mode addresses the conventions of research papers rather than ordinary prose.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is gabelul/slopbuster's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on slopbuster itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything slopbuster configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gabelul/slopbuster. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gabelul/slopbuster/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabelul/slopbuster

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 779 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 779 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00779 $0.00779
Opus 5.5 $0.00312 $0.00312
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00156 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00078 $0.00078

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7f50ba558662, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slopbuster CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — slopbuster

What this is

A skill (pure markdown, no runtime) that strips AI-generated patterns from text, code, and academic writing. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and 40+ other coding agents via the Skills CLI.

Architecture

SKILL.md is the orchestrator. It routes between three modes (text, code, academic), defines the two-pass audit process, and references sub-files for the actual rules.

SKILL.md              — entry point, mode routing, output format, process flow
SKILL-OC.md           — token-optimized version (same content, compressed for OpenClaw)
rules/text-*.md       — 5 files covering 24 prose patterns
rules/code-*.md       — 6 files covering 79 code patterns
rules/academic.md     — 49 rules across 10 groups with section-specific guidance
guides/voice-and-soul.md  — how to inject personality (not just strip patterns)
guides/style-template.md  — template for building custom voice profiles
scoring.md            — three-tier weighted scoring system

Rule files are loaded selectively based on mode. Text mode loads text-*.md, code mode loads code-*.md, academic loads academic.md. The guides and scoring are shared across modes.

How the skill works

  1. Diagnose — load relevant rule files, scan for matching patterns, score original
  2. Rewrite — apply pattern removals, inject human voice markers
  3. Two-pass audit — ask "what's still AI about this?", list remaining tells, revise again
  4. Report — score final version, generate changelog, flag manual review items

The two-pass audit is the differentiator. First pass removes patterns. Second pass catches the sterile, voiceless text that pattern removal itself creates.

Scoring system

Three tiers, weighted by signal strength:

  • Tier 1 (3pts): dead giveaways — delve, tapestry, sycophancy, chatbot artifacts
  • Tier 2 (2pts): corporate tells — synergy, leverage, copula avoidance, significance inflation
  • Tier 3 (1pt): weak signals — Additionally, Furthermore, em dashes, mild hedging

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 82 lines · 779 tokens per session scan A 7f50ba558662

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slopbuster CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gabelul/slopbuster (45 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 779 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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