deslop

deslop is a skill for Codex from owainlewis/agent-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,094 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing editor that removes common AI-style patterns while keeping the original facts, meaning, tone, and voice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise emails, documentation, articles, lessons, scripts, marketing copy, and other business writing.
Why use it?
It helps text sound less stiff, generic, or machine-written without changing what the writer meant.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to revise emails, documentation, articles, lessons, scripts, marketing copy, and other business writing.

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

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,094 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 $0.00070 $0.01094
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00109

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9181c8093193, 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 10d 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/deslop/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deslop

Make writing sound like it was written by a person.

Process

  1. Identify the point, facts, intended reader, tone, and format.
  2. Find the AI patterns below.
  3. Rewrite the affected lines. Preserve meaning and useful detail.
  4. Restore the writer's voice after removing the patterns.
  5. Read the result again. Fix anything stiff, generic, or more polished than the intended tone.
  6. Return the finished writing. Explain changes only when asked.

Protect the source

  • Keep facts, numbers, citations, quotes, code, commands, paths, names, and technical terms accurate.
  • Keep the writer's level of formality, point of view, and distinctive wording.
  • Do not invent facts, sources, opinions, feelings, stories, or experience.
  • Change only what improves the writing.

Restore a human voice

  • Keep the writer's opinion. Do not turn it into a neutral list of pros and cons.
  • Use first person when the source or requested voice uses it.
  • Vary sentence length and rhythm.
  • Keep specific, odd, funny, blunt, or messy details that make the writing sound like the writer.
  • Prefer a concrete reaction or observation to a general statement.
  • Do not force every idea into matching sections or lists.
  • When the user provides no writing sample, use plain conversational English. Be direct, calm, and specific.

Remove AI patterns

Empty content

  • Cut introductions and conclusions that repeat the request or answer.
  • Replace claims of importance with what actually changes.
  • Cut sentences that could appear unchanged in an unrelated article.
  • Replace vague sources such as "experts," "reports," and "critics" with a named source or remove the claim.
  • Replace formulaic challenges such as "despite these challenges" with the specific problem and result.
  • Do not add praise, hype, or promotional adjectives without evidence.

Stock language

  • Rewrite puffery such as "pivotal moment," "testament to," "evolving landscape," "setting the stage," "deeply rooted," and "indelible mark."
  • Cut AI vocabulary such as "delve," "tapestry," "intricate," "interplay," "crucial," "vibrant," "groundbreaking," and "renowned" when a plain word says more.
  • Replace "utilize" and "leverage" with "use," "facilitate" with "help," and "numerous" with "many" or a number.
  • Replace "serves as," "stands as," "boasts," and "features" with "is" or "has" when that is the meaning.
  • Cut filler such as "in order to," "due to the fact that," and "it is important to note that."
  • Do not swap a banned word for a fancier synonym. Rewrite the thought.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 10d ago First seen · 91 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 9181c8093193

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository owainlewis/agent-skills (44 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,094 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 2026-08-30.

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