technical-deslop

technical-deslop is a skill for Codex from vincentkoc/dotskills. It costs 21 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cleanup pass for staged changes and branch differences that removes noisy, AI-like code while keeping the program’s behavior unchanged. A diff is the set of changes between two versions of files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before review or a pull request to remove redundant comments, unnecessary defensive code, awkward type casts, and other style inconsistencies.
Why use it?
It helps make generated or over-explained changes match the repository’s existing style. It limits cleanup to changed code and checks that the logic stays the same.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it before review or a pull request to remove redundant comments, unnecessary defensive code, awkward type casts, and other style inconsistencies.

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

Made for: Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin technical-deslop — /plugin install technical-deslop after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 333 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 $0.00021 $0.00333
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00133
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a3207107d164, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-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 1mo 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/technical-deslop/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Technical Deslop

Purpose

Clean branch/staged diffs by removing AI-style slop and restoring repo-consistent style without changing behavior.

When to use

  • A diff feels over-explained, overly defensive, or inconsistent with surrounding code.
  • You need a final cleanup pass before review/PR.
  • You want to normalize style after automated generation.

Workflow

  1. Capture scope with git diff --cached and git diff $(git merge-base origin/main HEAD)..HEAD.
  2. Focus only on changed hunks (or user-scoped files).
  3. Apply the cleanup sequence in references/playbook.md.
  4. Remove slop patterns: redundant comments, unnecessary defensive branches, non-idiomatic casts, and style drift.
  5. Re-check behavior boundaries: no logic changes unless the user explicitly requested them.
  6. Report a short 1-3 sentence summary of cleanup performed.

Read references/slop-patterns.md for detection rules and references/playbook.md for execution order.

Inputs

  • Optional file scope (FILES) or explicit user file targets.
  • Current branch diff and staged diff.
  • Repository conventions from local instructions/config.

Outputs

  • Behavior-preserving cleanup in touched files.
  • Minimal summary of what was normalized and where.
Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines a3207107d164
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 8229dd1ce319

Subscribe to this mod's changes

technical-deslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository vincentkoc/dotskills (110 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 333 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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