This skill removes 20+ patterns of AI slop from your writing and it can also help you detect slop as well.

What it catches

The patterns it detects include:

Pattern	Smells like
Binary contrasts	"It's not X. It's Y."
Throat-clearing openers	"Here's the thing..."
Faux-insight setups	"What nobody tells you..."
Colon reveals	"The best part: it learns."
Superficial analysis	"...highlighting the team's commitment"
Importance puffery	"marks a pivotal moment"
Weasel attribution	"experts agree," "studies show"
Fake-strong verbs	"serves as a centralized hub"
Synonym cycling	the agent, then the assistant, then the tool
Negative listing	"Not a X. Not a Y. A Z."
Dramatic fragmentation	"That's it. That's the whole thing."

It also enforces the fundamentals that make writing good: Lead with the point when it helps, use active voice, untangle hard-to-follow sentences, and prefer concrete numbers over abstractions.

Install

Paste this into Claude Code, Codex, or your favorite AI harness:

"Install this skill globally: https://github.com/petergyang/no-ai-slop"

Use

1. Edit a draft. Paste it and invoke the skill:

/no-ai-slop

[your draft]

You get back the edited draft plus a short What changed section. The skill makes the minimum effective edit, then checks its own work against eval.md.

2. Detect slop. Ask whether a piece reads as AI:

/no-ai-slop is this AI slop?

[the text]

You get every pattern it found each with the quoted line.

Files

1. SKILL.md: The editing rules and workflow.
2. eval.md: Pass/fail checks the skill runs on its own edits.

Who made this

This is one skill from my personal AI operating system. The full library, including my courses and workflows, lives at Behind the Craft.

License

MIT