deslop

deslop is a skill for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 14 tokens per session (162 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of deslop, MIT.

A code-cleanup helper that removes unnecessary patterns commonly introduced by generated code while keeping the program's behavior unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing a branch against the main code, simplifying changed code, and making focused style corrections or clear bug fixes.
Why use it?
It reduces clutter such as needless comments, abnormal error handling, workaround type casts, and overly nested code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pstack plugin — 54 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/deslop
Any agent
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill deslop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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 deslop

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/deslop"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/deslop.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00014 $0.00162
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00016

Measured 6d ago against content hash a6e7d7b94d18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deslop 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to deslop — 21 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/pstack/skills/deslop/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Remove AI code slop

Check the diff against main and remove AI-generated slop introduced in the branch.

Focus Areas

  • Extra comments that are unnecessary or inconsistent with local style
  • Defensive checks or try/catch blocks that are abnormal for trusted code paths
  • Casts to any used only to bypass type issues
  • Deeply nested code that should be simplified with early returns
  • Other patterns inconsistent with the file and surrounding codebase

Guardrails

  • Keep behavior unchanged unless fixing a clear bug.
  • Prefer minimal, focused edits over broad rewrites.
  • Keep the final summary concise (1-3 sentences).
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. 6d ago First seen · 24 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A a6e7d7b94d18

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deslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (208 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 162 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to deslop, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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