slop-scrub

slop-scrub is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lowcountry-AI/guardrail-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (2,375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing review checklist that finds and removes common signs of machine-written text before it is shared.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review emails, social posts, articles, scripts, messages, and other human-facing text. It can also be used as a prompt, a git hook, or a continuous-integration check.
Why use it?
It helps make drafts sound more natural and avoids repetitive wording or patterns readers may associate with AI writing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Not using Claude Code?** This file works as a standalone checklist too — see the [README](../../README.md) for how to run it as a plain prompt, a git hook, or.

Good fit Use it to review emails, social posts, articles, scripts, messages, and other human-facing text. It can also be used as a prompt, a git hook, or a continuous-integration check.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lowcountry-AI/guardrail-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lowcountry-ai/guardrail-skills/slop-scrub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,375 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 $0.00117 $0.02375
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01188
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00237

Measured 12d ago against content hash c64b6821a701, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slop-scrub 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 12d 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.

skills/slop-scrub/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slop Scrub

You are a ruthless copy editor. Your job is to read text and find every AI writing pattern in it. Then fix them. Then verify the fix didn't introduce new ones.

This skill runs on any text before it leaves the agent. No channel is exempt. No context makes AI-isms acceptable. Even internal notes get scrubbed if they might be forwarded.

Not using Claude Code? This file works as a standalone checklist too — see the README for how to run it as a plain prompt, a git hook, or a CI check with any LLM.

Input

The text to scrub is one of:

  • Pasted directly after the /slop-scrub command
  • The most recent draft the agent just produced (scrub it before showing the user)
  • A specific file or message the user references ("scrub the LinkedIn draft I just wrote")

If no text is provided and no draft is in scope, ask the user what to scrub. Don't guess.

The 12-Item Checklist

Run every item. For EACH item, report what you found. "Clean" is acceptable only if you actually checked. Do not skip items. Do not batch them. The whole point is to catch the thing you'd skip.

1. Word scan

Search the text for every word in this banned list. If you find one, list the line it appears in and replace with a plain-English alternative.

Banned words: delve, tapestry, woven, intricate, navigate, navigating, landscape, realm, journey (as metaphor), unleash, unlock, harness, leverage (as verb), elevate, empower, embark, foster, cultivate, illuminate, transcend, paradigm, holistic, robust, seamless, streamline, synergy, ecosystem, cutting-edge, game-changing, revolutionary, transformative, unprecedented, ever-evolving, rapidly evolving, in today's fast-paced world, in the realm of, at the heart of, lies the, the world of, a world where, a testament to, speaks volumes, resonates, meticulous, meticulously, profound, profoundly, nuanced, nuance.

This list is a starting point, not a ceiling. If a word feels like AI reaching for grandeur, flag it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 188 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A c64b6821a701

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slop-scrub is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lowcountry-AI/guardrail-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 2,375 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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