unslop

unslop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,403 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of unslop, MIT.

A writing-editing rule set that removes common signs of AI-generated prose while preserving the original meaning and tone. It targets vague claims, inflated wording, repeated ideas, and other listed patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scan and rewrite articles, documentation, and other writing to replace vague language, clichés, and unnecessary stylistic patterns.
Why use it?
It makes text more direct and specific, so readers can understand the actual claims without filler or unsupported attribution.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the pstack plugin — 55 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Scan and rewrite articles, documentation, and other writing to replace vague language, clichés, and unnecessary stylistic patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/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 minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards --skill unslop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 2 agents.

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
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,403 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 92% 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 $0.01403
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00561
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00140

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9cee7f97ccde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2d 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

92% identical to unslop — 4 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/unslop/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.

Unslop

Edit text to remove AI patterns. Scan for the patterns below, then rewrite. Preserve meaning and match the intended tone.

Patterns to detect and fix

Rule numbers are stable ids that other skills cite. A removed rule leaves a gap.

Content

  1. Superficial -ing phrases. "highlighting...", "ensuring...", "reflecting...", "showcasing...", "fostering...". Delete or expand with real sources.
  2. Vague attributions. "Experts believe", "Industry reports suggest", "Some critics argue". Name the source or delete.

Language

  1. AI vocabulary. Additionally, crucial, delve, enduring, enhance, fostering, garner, interplay, intricate, landscape (abstract), pivotal, showcase, tapestry (abstract), testament, underscore, vibrant. Replace with plain words.
  2. Fancy ways to say "is". "serves as", "stands as", "boasts", "features". Say "is" or "has".
  3. "Not just X, but Y." State the point directly instead.
  4. Rule of three. Don't force ideas into groups of three. Use the natural number.
  5. Synonym cycling. Protagonist, main character, central figure, hero all in one paragraph. Pick one, repeat it.
  6. False ranges. "from X to Y" where X and Y aren't on a meaningful scale. List topics directly.

Style

  1. Em dash overuse. Avoid em dashes entirely. Use periods or commas only (no parentheses, no en dashes, no hyphen-as-dash substitutes). If a thought needs separation, end the sentence or use a comma.
  2. Colon overuse. Colons are fine before a list or example, not as mid-sentence connectors. "If you're coming from traditional automation: instead of registering event handlers, you describe conditions" adds nothing with the colon. Rewrite to let the point stand on its own without comparison framing. "Describing when the scheduler should fire works best as plain English." Same meaning, no crutch punctuation.
  3. Boldface overuse. Don't bold every proper noun or acronym.
  4. Inline-header lists. The tell is a bold label and colon that restates the line: "Performance: Performance improved...". Convert those to prose. A bold lead-in that ends in a period, names the item, and is followed by genuinely new detail ("Schema in TypeScript. Tables live in one file.") is fine, not a tell.
  5. Title case headings. Use sentence case.
  6. Decorative emojis. Remove from headings and bullets.
  7. Curly quotes. Use straight quotes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 63 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 9cee7f97ccde

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards (47 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,403 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to unslop, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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