stop-slop

stop-slop is a skill for Claude Code from wpgaurav/claude-code-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (647 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid that identifies and removes predictable patterns often associated with AI-generated prose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting, editing, or reviewing prose that should sound less mechanical and more natural.
Why use it?
It helps make text more direct and varied by cutting filler, formulaic structures, repeated wording, and unnecessary explanations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when drafting, editing, or reviewing prose that should sound less mechanical and more natural.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wpgaurav/claude-code-skills/stop-slop
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 wpgaurav/claude-code-skills --skill stop-slop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wpgaurav/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 647 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 $0.00026 $0.00647
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 7d ago against content hash 034a68cf4209, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stop-slop 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 7d 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.

stop-slop/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stop Slop

Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.

Core Rules

  1. Cut filler phrases. Remove throat-clearing openers and emphasis crutches. See references/phrases.md.

  2. Break formulaic structures. Avoid binary contrasts, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups. See references/structures.md.

  3. Vary rhythm. Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently.

  4. Trust readers. State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding.

  5. Cut quotables. If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it.

Quick Checks

Before delivering prose:

  • Three consecutive sentences match length? Break one.
  • Paragraph ends with punchy one-liner? Vary it.
  • Em-dash before a reveal? Remove it.
  • Explaining a metaphor? Trust it to land.
  • Same concept called three different names? Pick one and repeat it.
  • "Serves as" or "stands as" where "is" works? Use "is."
  • Stacked "from X to Y" ranges? Pick one specific example.
  • Closing paragraph could apply to any article? Make it specific.
  • Caption or alt text explains how the image was made, or why it beats a stock photo? Replace it with what the image shows, or remove it.

Self-Audit (Final Pass)

After writing, ask: "What makes this obviously AI-generated?" Read every paragraph looking for:

  1. Synonym cycling (same thing, different words each time)
  2. -ing gerund clusters (highlighting, showcasing, fostering)
  3. Significance inflation (testament, pivotal, transformative)
  4. False comprehensiveness (from X to Y, whether A or B)
  5. Generic optimistic closing

Fix every instance found. Then read once more.

Scoring

Rate 1-10 on each dimension:

Dimension Question
Directness Statements or announcements?
Rhythm Varied or metronomic?
Trust Respects reader intelligence?
Authenticity Sounds human?
Density Anything cuttable?

Below 35/50: revise.

This grid is a quick self-check, not a gate. For a scored audit with severity tiers, run the sibling slop-detector skill: exact production-narration constructions fail outright, broad lexical matches only prompt review, and the advisory score (0 to 5 clean, 6 to 15 needs editing, 16+ rewrite) decides pass or fail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 75 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 034a68cf4209

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stop-slop is a skill published in the GitHub repository wpgaurav/claude-code-skills (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 647 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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