ai-slop-detector

ai-slop-detector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aragaobruno/toolbelt. It costs 39 tokens per session (570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for common AI-written wording, such as jargon, clichés, repetitive phrasing, and unnecessary introductory sentences. It can also rewrite a file using the Gemini API while preserving its intended meaning and technical accuracy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan Markdown or other prose for AI-style writing, or to clean a draft into more natural language.
Why use it?
It helps make documentation and comments shorter, clearer, and less obviously machine-written.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to scan Markdown or other prose for AI-style writing, or to clean a draft into more natural language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aragaobruno/toolbelt/ai-slop-detector
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aragaobruno/toolbelt --skill ai-slop-detector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aragaobruno/toolbelt

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 570 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00039 $0.00570
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 11d ago against content hash ad8dc0a3da08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-slop-detector 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/detector.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/context/ai-slop-detector/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🧠 ai-slop-detector

Overview

AI-generated text is often bloated with repetitive words, formal clichés ("throat-clearing" intros), and structural patterns that make it instantly recognizable as machine-generated. The ai-slop-detector audits your prose, documents, and code comments, highlights these patterns, and sanitizes them to produce clean, natural, and human-like writing.

Quick Start

To scan a markdown file for AI jargon:

node skills/context/ai-slop-detector/scripts/detector.js check README.md

To automatically rewrite a document to remove AI slop:

export GEMINI_API_KEY="your-gemini-key"
node skills/context/ai-slop-detector/scripts/detector.js clean draft.md --output final.md

Utility Scripts

detector.js (CLI)

A Node.js tool to detect and clean AI writing patterns.

Subcommand: check

Scans the target file against a set of heuristic rules representing common AI writing flaws.

  • Arguments: <file_path>
  • Example:
    node detector.js check blog_draft.md
    
Subcommand: clean

Invokes the Gemini API to intelligently rewrite the file, stripping all slop while preserving the original intent and technical accuracy.

  • Arguments: <file_path> --output <output_file_path>
  • Example:
    node detector.js clean raw_draft.md --output clean_prose.md
    

Common Pitfalls (Slop Dictionary)

Below are the primary patterns targeted by this skill:

  1. Introductory Clichés ("Throat-clearing"):
    • Avoid: "In today's fast-paced digital landscape...", "It is important to note that...", "In this article, we will delve into..."
    • Write: Direct, punchy openers.
  2. Robotic Transitions:
    • Avoid: "Furthermore", "Moreover", "Additionally", "In summary", "Ultimately", "It is testament to..."
    • Write: Standard, conversational transitions.
  3. Vague AI-isms:
    • Avoid: "Delve", "Tapestry", "Bespoke", "Revolutionize", "Beacon", "Pivotal".
    • Write: "Explore", "Structure", "Custom", "Improve", "Key".

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 56 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A ad8dc0a3da08

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ai-slop-detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository aragaobruno/toolbelt (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 570 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.