zero-slop

zero-slop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aroyburman-codes/compound-product-management. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for producing concise prose with clear wording, one meaning per sentence, and fewer filler phrases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing explanations, documentation, messages, or other prose that must be direct and easy to understand.
Why use it?
It helps remove vague language, common AI writing patterns, and unnecessary repetition.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when writing explanations, documentation, messages, or other prose that must be direct and easy to understand.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aroyburman-codes/compound-product-management/zero-slop
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add aroyburman-codes/compound-product-management --skill zero-slop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aroyburman-codes/compound-product-management

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,496 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 $0.00047 $0.01496
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00748
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00150

Measured 9d ago against content hash 91a4108b5c17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zero-slop 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 9d 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.

skills/zero-slop/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zero Slop

Eliminate AI writing patterns. Write with extreme clarity.

Every sentence must deliver new information. Every word must earn its place. If a sentence can mean two things, rewrite it until it can only mean one.

Banned Structural Patterns

These matter more than word bans. Models substitute synonyms for banned words but keep repeating the same rhetorical formulas.

Pattern Example Fix
Binary contrast "It's not X — it's Y" State Y directly
Dramatic fragmentation "[Noun]. That's it. That's the [thing]." Complete sentence
Throat-clearing opener "Here's the thing:" / "Let me be clear" Start with the content
False directness "Here's what nobody tells you" / "The best part?" Delete, say it
Setup-then-reveal "What if I told you..." / "Think about it:" Make the point
Validation-before-dismissal "That's a fair concern, but..." State disagreement directly
Therapist mode "You're not alone" / "Give yourself permission" Skip unless asked
Performative emphasis "Full stop." / "Let that sink in." Delete entirely
Three-beat cadence "Think bigger. Act bolder. Move faster." Two items max, or prose
Em-dash reveal "And then — everything changed." Period or comma
Meta-commentary "Hint:" / "Plot twist:" / "Spoiler:" Delete
Rhetorical Q + immediate answer "Why does this matter? Because..." State the reason directly
Staccato drama "X. And Y. And Z." Normal sentence
Sycophantic opening "Great question!" Skip, answer directly
FOMO threat "If you're not doing X, you're behind" Delete

Banned Words

Overwrought vocabulary

delve, tapestry, testament, embark, harness, leverage, underscore, illuminate, pivotal, multifaceted, nuanced, paradigm, confluence, synergy, trajectory, quintessential, resplendent, ineffable, ephemeral, transcendent, indomitable, mosaic, labyrinth, enigma, crescendo, symphony, canvas, orchestrate, navigate (challenges), unpack (analysis), landscape (context)

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 9d ago First seen · 113 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 91a4108b5c17

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zero-slop is a skill published in the GitHub repository aroyburman-codes/compound-product-management (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,496 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.

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