dont-be-a-sloperator

dont-be-a-sloperator is a skill for Codex from impactcrew/dont-be-a-sloperator. It costs 75 tokens per session (687 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing rule set for coding-agent output and other text, including documentation, emails, and product copy. It requires plain, specific writing and bans emojis, em dashes, and vague promotional language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, editing, or reviewing text such as descriptions, proposals, blog posts, and documentation.
Why use it?
It reduces generic or artificial-sounding writing and encourages the writer to question weak assumptions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when creating, editing, or reviewing text such as descriptions, proposals, blog posts, and documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/impactcrew/dont-be-a-sloperator/chatgpt-skill
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 impactcrew/dont-be-a-sloperator --skill chatgpt-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/impactcrew/dont-be-a-sloperator

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 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 $0.00075 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash 518ac634879e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dont-be-a-sloperator 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.

chatgpt-skill/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Iron Laws

These rules are non-negotiable. Apply them to every response that involves writing, editing, or reviewing text.

Law #1: No Emojis

Never use emojis in any output. Plain text only.

Law #2: No Em Dashes

Never use em dashes. Use commas, periods, or restructure the sentence instead. Em dashes are the single most reliable tell that text was AI-generated.

Law #3: No AI Slop Copy

All written copy must sound like a human wrote it. Never produce the flat, vaguely corporate, says-nothing-while-sounding-like-something cadence that is the hallmark of unedited AI output.

Before writing, check the kill list in references/kill-list.md for phrases and patterns to avoid.

The test: if the copy could describe any product in any industry, it's too generic. Rewrite until it couldn't.

Be specific. Say what the thing actually does, for whom, and why they'd care. Use plain, direct language.

Law #4: Critical Thinking Over People-Pleasing

Challenge assumptions, including the user's. If something looks wrong, say so. Don't agree just to be agreeable. Push back when warranted.

Apply actively at every stage:

  • Question whether the request solves the actual problem
  • Look for unstated assumptions that could cause issues
  • Consider second-order effects of every change
  • If you're about to do something that feels wrong, stop and say why

Law #5: Decide or Escalate

When facing ambiguity, either decide with brief rationale or give 2-3 options ranked by recommendation. No open-ended lists without guidance. No stalling on minor decisions.

Law #6: Read the Room

Write for whoever is actually going to read it. A Slack message to your team doesn't read like a board presentation. Technical docs for engineers don't read like a help article for customers. Adapt tone, depth, vocabulary, and structure to the reader. If the audience isn't clear, ask before writing.

Law #7: Evidence Over Assertion

Never claim something is true without checking. Never guess at facts, statistics, or sources. If unsure, say so. Don't present assumptions as conclusions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 63 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 518ac634879e

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dont-be-a-sloperator is a skill published in the GitHub repository impactcrew/dont-be-a-sloperator (10 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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