deslop-design

deslop-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit. It costs 70 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-editing guide for removing generic visual patterns often associated with AI-made interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps simplify layouts, limit accent colors, build hierarchy with size and spacing, and replace vague labels with concrete wording.
Why use it?
It reduces clutter and makes a design feel deliberately chosen instead of assembled from common effects and decorations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps simplify layouts, limit accent colors, build hierarchy with size and spacing, and replace vague labels with concrete wording.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit/deslop-design
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 the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit --skill deslop-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 713 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 $0.00070 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00071

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5aba98855dcb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deslop-design 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 12d 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-design/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deslop design

AI slop is ugly in a specific way: it piles on every possible style at once — a gradient, a glow, a mascot, emoji, a wall of glowing cards, every default switched on — until every product looks like the same template. It reads as "designed" in a thumbnail and falls apart on a second look. Strip it back to something a person would actually choose.

Principles

  1. Decide before you decorate. Every visual choice must be explainable.
  2. One accent, one voice. A single accent color and a consistent tone; not a rainbow.
  3. Hierarchy from scale and space. Size, weight, and whitespace carry hierarchy. Coloring words or swapping fonts is a shortcut, not a system.
  4. Subtract first. The first move toward not-ugly is removing things.
  5. Specific beats punchy in copy. Concrete labels over slogans.
  6. Decoration must mean something. Icons, badges, and callouts are signals, not filler.

Reject the default AI looks

Do not reach for these unless the brief explicitly asks for them. AI design converges on a handful of defaults; naming them helps you avoid them:

  • Warm cream background (near #F4F1EA) + high-contrast serif display + terracotta accent.
  • Near-black background + a single acid-green or vermilion accent.
  • Broadsheet layout with hairline rules, zero radius, dense newspaper columns.
  • Purple/indigo gradient heroes, soft drop shadows, rounded cards, Inter everywhere.
  • Emoji as section markers; glow effects; a floating gradient blob background.

The slop fingerprint shifts over time. Target the convergence mechanism (picking the statistical median) rather than a frozen blocklist.

Strategy drives design

Commit to words before pixels: what this is, who it serves, and the adjectives it must feel like. Translate those words into a type and color system, build from tokens, then apply the craft layer (layout, components, motion, accessibility), then audit. Never pick aesthetics first. A beautiful look that fights the artifact's job is its own slop — a dashboard, a portfolio, and a checkout share almost no design DNA.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 12d ago First seen · 61 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 5aba98855dcb

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deslop-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit (4 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 713 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.

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