ai-slop-detector

ai-slop-detector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from opencue/cuecards. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing review that checks text for signs of machine-generated prose and for readability problems such as unexplained terms, dense wording, or difficult structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit, score, rewrite, or humanise prose, with separate findings for AI-writing signals and reader comprehension.
Why use it?
It helps make writing sound more natural and ensures a new reader can understand it without already knowing the subject.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to audit, score, rewrite, or humanise prose, with separate findings for AI-writing signals and reader comprehension.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencue/cuecards/ai-slop-detector
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 opencue/cuecards --skill ai-slop-detector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opencue/cuecards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,528 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00042 $0.03528
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01764
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00706
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00353

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2231a4fc7b97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-slop-detector 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 1 executable file (scripts/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.

.agents/skills/ai-slop-detector/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

slop-cop

A universal prose audit with two parallel axes. Built on ~135 published sources spanning peer-reviewed linguistics, AI-detector vendor methodology, plain-language style guides (plainlanguage.gov, GOV.UK, Microsoft, Google), cognitive-load research (Miller, Sweller, Pinker), web-readability research (NN/g), and the Plain Writing Act / WCAG accessibility standards.

The one-line summary

Two axes, two verdicts. AI-Slop and Comprehension. A piece can pass one and fail the other.

  • AI-Slop axis, Does this read like AI wrote it? Patterns, vocabulary, formatting, rhythm.
  • Comprehension axis, Can a fresh reader follow this? Acronyms, named-entity bombing, telegraphic compression, readability, structure.

Single instances aren't a signal. Density is. Both axes use density-based scoring (per 500 words, weighted by severity) with the same verdict tiers (PASS / LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH / CRITICAL). The audit reports both and combines them into a single recommendation based on whichever is worse.


Why this skill exists

Our feeds are becoming shit. Our websites are becoming shit. Our repos are becoming shit. AI didn't make writing harder, it made writing easier, and now everyone uses the same shortcuts, the same shapes, the same words. Open ten landing pages in a row and you can't tell them apart.

I built this skill to make my own websites less shit, my clients' websites less shit, and my LinkedIn feed less of a copy-paste graveyard. Yes, AI wrote parts of this skill. That is not the problem. The problem is AI prose nobody catches: the safe, hedge-stacked, em-dash-heavy paragraph where every line is grammatically clean but the whole thing is forgettable.

I run this against my own work every day. Landing pages, blog posts, READMEs, pitch decks, cold emails. It catches the stuff I would have shipped. If someone uses it to score other people's writing, fine. The first job is policing yourself before you ship.

Running it daily means finding new things every week. A pattern I missed. A false alarm on real human prose. A new model with new tells. The list moves with the work. Expect a lot of changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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. 9d ago First seen · 279 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 2231a4fc7b97

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ai-slop-detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository opencue/cuecards (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,528 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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