talk-wotherspoon-humans-vs-slop

talk-wotherspoon-humans-vs-slop is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (614 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Jack Wotherspoon’s “Humans vs Slop” talk about the maintenance cost of AI-generated software and the need for human quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create slop-risk checks, review-cost models, durable-value measures, and human decision points for AI-heavy software work.
Why use it?
It helps teams notice when cheap code generation creates expensive review and maintenance work.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to create slop-risk checks, review-cost models, durable-value measures, and human decision points for AI-heavy software work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jscraik/agent-skills/talk-wotherspoon-humans-vs-slop
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill talk-wotherspoon-humans-vs-slop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 614 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 $0.00078 $0.00614
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash dc4d3441d918, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talk-wotherspoon-humans-vs-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.

Plugins/aidevcon/skills/talk-wotherspoon-humans-vs-slop/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Humans vs Slop

Cheap generation can create expensive review and maintenance burden, so teams need quality gates that reward durable value.

Read Order

  1. Use outline.md for the talk thesis, concept map, and safe application boundaries.
  2. Use quote.md when the answer needs a short supporting excerpt.
  3. Use transcript.md only to confirm what remained after safety redaction.
  4. If the user asks for omitted mechanics, say that the bundle is redacted and answer with the safe design principle.

What This Skill Produces

  • slop-risk checklist
  • review-cost model
  • quality-gate rubric
  • durable-value metrics

Core Workflow

When answering a factual question:

  1. Identify the relevant concept from outline.md.
  2. Answer in 2-5 sentences.
  3. Add one short excerpt from quote.md only if it strengthens the answer.
  4. State when the bundle does not cover a requested detail.

When applying the talk to the user's work:

  1. Identify what generated work someone must own later.
  2. Separate visible output volume from maintained value.
  3. Add review gates for correctness, readability, and fit.
  4. Define when humans must make taste or architecture calls.
  5. Prefer small durable changes over large unreviewable batches.

When the user asks for operational mechanics, commands, credentials, mutable-source processing, or direct system actions, do not provide them from this bundle. Give the design-level alternative instead.

Output Templates

Summary

  • Thesis:
  • Key concepts: <3-5 bullets>
  • Practical takeaway:

Design Artifact

  • Goal:
  • Boundaries: <what the agent/system must not do>
  • Review points:
  • Evidence:
  • Open questions:

Redacted Request

  • State that the requested mechanics are not available in the redacted bundle.
  • Explain the risk in neutral terms.
  • Provide a safe checklist or conceptual design instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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 · 77 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A dc4d3441d918

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talk-wotherspoon-humans-vs-slop is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (8 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 614 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 2026-09-03.