slop-check

slop-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sjarmak/coding-agent-workflows. It costs 157 tokens per session (1,261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-quality check that scans changes for unnecessary complexity, repeated structure, dead branches, and other clutter that can build up as existing code is extended.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after extending an existing module or before opening a pull request to judge whether the change can be made smaller and clearer.
Why use it?
It focuses on accumulated mess and verbosity, a different concern from whether the code is correct or secure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/sjarmak/coding-agent-workflows/slop-check
Any agent
npx skills add sjarmak/coding-agent-workflows --skill slop-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sjarmak/coding-agent-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,261 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00157 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00126

Measured 3d ago against content hash 83d2fb7c122e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slop-check 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 3d 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.

source/skills/slop-check/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slop & Erosion Check

A focused LLM-judge pass that scores a change the way SlopCodeBench scores agents: on Erosion (verbosity, dead branches, redundant structure that piles up as code is extended) and Verbosity (unnecessary complexity), both lower-is-better. The premise: agents rarely write wrong code — they patch their way into slop, and early design decisions compound across changes.

This is the accumulated-cruft axis, and it scans code, not prose. For correctness and reuse, use the review skill; for security, the security-review skill; for AI-writing slop in prose or docs (including READMEs), use writing-voice. They compose.

When to use

  • After a change that extends existing code across one or more requirement shifts.
  • Before opening a PR on a non-greenfield change.
  • When a function/module has grown over several edits and feels heavy.
  • Skip for trivial diffs (typo, one-line fix, formatting, dependency bump) — there is no erosion surface.

Phase 1: Map the surface (extended vs. greenfield)

Get the diff: git diff (or git diff HEAD with staged changes; or the files just edited if no git changes). For large diffs, write once to /tmp/slop-diff.txt and reference the path.

Split the changed code into two buckets — this drives the weighting:

  • Extended surface (HIGH weight): hunks inside functions/modules that already existed. This is where erosion lives.
  • Greenfield surface (normal weight): entirely new files/functions.

For the extended surface, read the whole enclosing function/module, not just the hunk — erosion is only visible against the surrounding code.

Phase 2: Judge against the rubric (the model judges, not regex)

The rubric is the catalog in the anti-slop rule (rules/reference/anti-slop.md, the SlopCodeBench 45-criterion judge, grouped). These are semantic judgments — do not grep for them; read and reason. For a large or cross-file diff, dispatch a general-purpose reviewer with a role clamp ("You are a verification agent; you did NOT write this code; actively read the enclosing modules") and the anti-slop catalog; otherwise judge directly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 3d ago First seen · 74 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 83d2fb7c122e

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slop-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository sjarmak/coding-agent-workflows (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 1,261 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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