brycewang-stanford/stop-slop
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Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- stop-slop
- description:
- Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
- trigger:
- Writing prose, editing drafts, reviewing content for AI patterns
- author:
- Hardik Pandya (https://hvpandya.com)
Stop Slop
Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.
Core Rules
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Cut filler phrases. Remove throat-clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs. See references/phrases.md.
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Break formulaic structures. Avoid binary contrasts, negative listings, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups, false agency. See references/structures.md.
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Use active voice. Every sentence needs a human subject doing something. No passive constructions. No inanimate objects performing human actions ("the complaint becomes a fix").
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Be specific. No vague declaratives ("The reasons are structural"). Name the specific thing. No lazy extremes ("every," "always," "never") doing vague work.
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Put the reader in the room. No narrator-from-a-distance voice. "You" beats "People." Specifics beat abstractions.
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Vary rhythm. Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently. No em dashes.
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Trust readers. State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding.
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Cut quotables. If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it.
Quick Checks
Before delivering prose:
- Any adverbs? Kill them.
- Any passive voice? Find the actor, make them the subject.
- Inanimate thing doing a human verb ("the decision emerges")? Name the person.
- Sentence starts with a Wh- word? Restructure it.
- Any "here's what/this/that" throat-clearing? Cut to the point.
- Any "not X, it's Y" contrasts? State Y directly.
- Three consecutive sentences match length? Break one.
- Paragraph ends with punchy one-liner? Vary it.
- Em-dash anywhere? Remove it.
- Vague declarative ("The implications are significant")? Name the specific implication.
- Narrator-from-a-distance ("Nobody designed this")? Put the reader in the scene.
- Meta-joiners ("The rest of this essay...")? Delete. Let the essay move.
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.
Examples
See references/examples.md for before/after transformations.
License
MIT
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