unslop

unslop is a skill for Claude Code from larsboes/Axon. It costs 215 tokens per session (2,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for removing recognizable AI-generated habits from source code and web interfaces without imposing a fixed coding style or visual design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect code or UI for machine-like wording, generic names, emoji, swallowed errors, and unfocused defaults before finalizing work.
Why use it?
It helps developers notice generic choices, placeholder text, unnecessary comments, and other signs that no project-specific decision was made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to inspect code or UI for machine-like wording, generic names, emoji, swallowed errors, and unfocused defaults before finalizing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/larsboes/axon/unslop
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 larsboes/Axon --skill unslop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/larsboes/Axon

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for unslop

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/larsboes/axon/unslop/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/larsboes/axon/unslop)
Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for unslop

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 215 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,197 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 $0.00215 $0.02197
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.01099
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00220

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0da49409ac4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/devibe_scan.py, scripts/unslop_code_scan.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Packs/unslop/skills/unslop/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

unslop

Read this first, because the most common misunderstanding sinks the whole thing.

This skill writes nothing and has no house style. It does two narrow things. It removes the specific cues that make code or an interface read as machine-made, and where the output reads as AI because nobody ever made a choice, it forces a deliberate one. Correctness, taste, and architecture stay with the person building. A guardrail is not an engineer and it is not a designer.

The trap to avoid (this is the whole point)

Every anti-slop effort fails the same way: it replaces one default with another. In UI the 2024 tell was the purple-to-blue gradient on a dark hero; the 2026 tell is warm cream, a serif display face, and a sage accent, which is the current Claude house look. In code it is the model told to "write clean code" over-correcting into defensive checks for impossible cases, a type on every local, a comment on every block, an abstraction with one caller. Trying to look senior is itself a tell.

So this skill never prescribes a palette, a font, a layout, or a pattern. Prescribing one is how a skill becomes next year's slop. A tell is an unspecified default, not a banned thing. If the user genuinely wants purple, or a broad catch at a process boundary, that is a decision and the skill leaves it alone. The only universal rule: make a deliberate choice and be able to say why, which is the one thing a default never is.

The two domains

code UI
Scanner scripts/unslop_code_scan.py scripts/devibe_scan.py
Catalog references/tells-code.md references/tells-ui.md
Build method references/fitting-the-codebase.md references/choosing-a-look.md
What only this domain has It executes. Compile and resolve imports before reading anything Layout coherence, spacing, and overflow are invisible to the scanner

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 156 lines · 215 tokens per session scan A 0da49409ac4f

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unslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository larsboes/Axon (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 215 tokens to every session and 2,197 once invoked, about $0.0011 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.