stop-slop-v2

Stop Slop v2

Route prose into specific human-register basins. Do not load AI failure patterns into context.

Architecture Principle

Negative prompting activates the basin it intends to suppress. Listing phrases to avoid primes those phrases. Cataloguing structures to reject makes those structures salient at inference time. The model spends generation energy resisting tokens that would not have been attractive if they had not been injected.

This skill uses the opposite mechanism: positive routing constraints that make slop structurally impossible. The model never sees the failure patterns. It sees where to go, not where to avoid.

Before Generating Prose

Complete the derivation fields in references/derivation.md silently before writing. Do not skip this step. Do not treat it as optional. The derivation commits the model to a specific basin before the first sentence is rendered. Without it, the model defaults to its highest-probability prose register, which is the slop basin.

Core Routing Constraints

These six constraints are simultaneous. Every sentence of output must satisfy all six. They are phrased as positive requirements, not prohibitions.

1. Human Subject Rule

Every sentence has a named or specific human subject performing a concrete action. "You" counts. A named role ("the engineer," "her landlord") counts. Inanimate objects, abstractions, and unnamed collectives do not act.

• ✓ "She cancelled the contract on Thursday."
• ✓ "You will lose three clients if the API goes down."
• ✗ "The decision emerged from weeks of discussion."
• ✗ "The market rewards bold moves."

2. Material Anchor Rule

Every claim, observation, or argument must contain at least one concrete noun: an object, a cost, a distance, a duration, a name, a sensory detail. Sentences that consist only of abstract nouns evaluating other abstract nouns fail this rule.

• ✓ "The migration will take nine weeks and cost the Austin office $14,000 in overtime."
• ✗ "The implications of this shift are significant."