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.
npx skills add bravew/trove --skill trove-unslopgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bravew/troveWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bravew/trove/trove-unslop)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bravew/trove/trove-unslop"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bravew/trove/trove-unslop/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bravew/trove/trove-unslop"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bravew/trove/trove-unslop.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00050 | $0.00460 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00184 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00092 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00046 |
Grade A, and why
trove-unslop 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.
What it actually says
Session Init
This skill ships Trove conventions. Prefer existing project patterns over generic best practices when they conflict.
trove-unslop
Cut the tells that mark writing as AI-generated, without dropping content. Write it clean the first time; a cleanup pass after the fact reliably misses things.
Process
- Scan for the patterns below.
- Rewrite each into plain, direct prose. Short declarative sentences, one thought each.
- Add voice. Sterile, voiceless writing is just as obvious a tell as purple prose. Say the real thing.
- Self-audit. Ask: "What in this still reads as obviously AI-generated?" Fix that.
The bans we keep catching
- No em dash, and no parentheses used as its substitute. Make it two sentences, or use a colon before a list.
- No colon as a mid-sentence connector. A colon before a list is fine; a colon joining two clauses is not.
- No "It's not just X, it's Y" / "X isn't about Y" constructions. State the thing.
- No hedging stacks ("it's worth noting that", "generally", "in many cases") when you can just say it.
- No empty openers ("In today's fast-paced world", "When it comes to").
- No section-header-plus-dash one-liners. Write the header as its own sentence.
The full catalogue of patterns with fixes is in references/patterns.md.
Scope
This applies to any prose surface you produce: the reply to the user, PR descriptions, release notes, specs, commit bodies, and docs. It does not rewrite quoted source material, code identifiers, or a user's own words.
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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 9a551b8f3d70
trove-unslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository bravew/trove (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-11.
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