deslop

deslop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from momentmaker/kaijutsu. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editing method that removes writing patterns commonly produced by AI while keeping the original meaning. It can address things such as repeated em dashes, formulaic contrasts, and hollow linking phrases.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for cleaning up public-facing prose such as documentation, commit messages, reviews, journal entries, and README files.
Why use it?
AI-written drafts can sound formulaic or unnatural even when their content is correct. This makes the wording feel more like ordinary human writing without changing its substance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It is for cleaning up public-facing prose such as documentation, commit messages, reviews, journal entries, and README files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/momentmaker/kaijutsu/deslop
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 momentmaker/kaijutsu --skill deslop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/momentmaker/kaijutsu

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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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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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,262 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 $0.00064 $0.01262
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00631
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00126

Measured 9d ago against content hash f496f99b632a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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.

skills/core/deslop/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

deslop

Models leak stylistic tells: emdash overuse, formulaic contrasts ("It's not X, it's Y"), pseudo-profound openers ("At its core..."), bullet-list explosions, and hollow connector words. Deslop removes those without changing what the text says.

When to invoke

  • Another skill produces prose for human consumption (commit messages, READMEs, journal entries)
  • The user explicitly asks: "deslop this", "remove AI tells", "make it sound less like ChatGPT"
  • A draft is going public (PR description, blog, docs)

What to remove

1. Emdash overuse

Models use emdashes (—) as a default structural break. Replace with periods, parentheses, or semicolons depending on weight.

Original Deslopped
"It's a great tool — fast, lightweight, and cross-platform." "It's a great tool. Fast, lightweight, cross-platform."
"We considered Postgres — but ultimately chose SQLite." "We considered Postgres but ultimately chose SQLite."
"The key insight — that caching invalidates predictably — drove the design." "The key insight (caching invalidates predictably) drove the design."

Don't remove every emdash. Keep the rare one where it carries real weight.

2. Formulaic contrasts

The "It's not X, it's Y" pattern. Or "Not just X but also Y." Replace with the direct positive claim.

Original Deslopped
"It's not just a CLI; it's a workflow." "It's a workflow CLI."
"Not merely fast — it's instant." "It's instant."

3. Pseudo-profound openers

"At its core...", "Fundamentally...", "In essence...", "Simply put...", "The thing about X is...". Cut and start with the actual claim.

Original Deslopped
"At its core, kaijutsu is a registry." "kaijutsu is a registry."
"Fundamentally, this changes how we think about agents." "This changes how we think about agents."

4. Hollow connectors

"It's worth noting that...", "It should be mentioned that...", "It's important to recognize...". If the next sentence is worth saying, just say it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 106 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A f496f99b632a

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deslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository momentmaker/kaijutsu (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,262 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.