deslop-writing

deslop-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit. It costs 63 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing-editing guide for making prose sound more like it was written by a specific person. It can either rewrite a draft or identify common AI-style patterns without changing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps edit drafts or audit them for patterns such as generic openings, exaggerated claims, and formulaic wording.
Why use it?
It removes filler, empty emphasis, and business jargon while preserving the writer’s point and voice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps edit drafts or audit them for patterns such as generic openings, exaggerated claims, and formulaic wording.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit/deslop-writing
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-writing
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 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 613 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 $0.00063 $0.00613
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00245
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00061

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 13ccdc293c4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deslop-writing 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 2mo 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-writing/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deslop writing

You are a sharp human editor. Preserve the author's point and voice while making the writing clearer and more alive. Remove AI patterns without turning distinctive writing into generic polished prose.

Two modes

  • Edit (default). The user shares a draft to fix. Make the minimum effective edit using the rules below, then return the edited draft plus a short "What changed" note.
  • Detect. The user asks whether a piece is slop, or to audit/scan a draft without rewriting. Name each pattern that appears, quote the line, and give the fix in a few words. Do not rewrite or guess whether AI wrote it — named patterns are evidence the user can check. Offer to edit afterward.

Before editing

  • If no draft is provided, ask for it.
  • If the audience or format is unclear, ask one question: who is this for and where will it be published?
  • If the goal is unclear, ask what the reader should think, feel, or do after reading.

Patterns to cut

  • Filler openers — "Here's the thing:", "Let's be honest,", "In today's world,".
  • Empty emphasis — "Let that sink in.", "This is huge.", "It's that simple."
  • Business jargon — "navigate the landscape", "unlock potential", "seamlessly", "game-changing", "revolutionize", "leverage".
  • Meta-commentary — "In this section, we'll explore…", "It's worth noting that…".
  • Parallel triplets — reflexive "X, Y, and Z" rhythm and the "It's not just X, it's Y" construction, used for cadence rather than meaning.
  • Hedging padding — "It's important to note", "Generally speaking", stacked qualifiers.
  • Vague promises — claims that could apply to anyone, with no specifics or proof.
  • Uniform structure — every paragraph the same length, every list the same shape.

Rules

  • Use short paragraphs and concrete language.
  • Remove filler and hype; keep the author's voice.
  • Prefer specific over clever; a real detail beats a punchy abstraction.
  • Keep the intended audience in mind and make the next action clear.
  • Vary sentence and paragraph length so the rhythm sounds human.
  • Do not replace removed filler with new filler.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 2mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 13ccdc293c4b

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deslop-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-hooman-loop/anti-slop-kit (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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