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- Trading skills (OKX, dividend, lottery, quantitative) - Creative skills (ASCII art, diagrams, video) - Development skills (GitHub, debugging, TDD) - Research skills (arXiv, blog monitoring) - Productivity skills (email, documents, notes) - MCP integration skills - Custom user skills
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+name: stop-slop
+description: Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
+version: 1.0.0
+author: Hardik Pandya (https://hvpandya.com)
+license: MIT
+platforms: [linux, macos, windows]
+metadata:
+  hermes:
+    tags: [writing, editing, humanize, anti-ai-slop, prose, text]
+    category: creative
+    homepage: https://github.com/hardikpandya/stop-slop
+    related_skills: [humanizer]
+  trigger: Writing prose, editing drafts, reviewing content for AI patterns
+---
+
+# Stop Slop
+
+Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.
+
+## Core Rules
+
+1. **Cut filler phrases.** Remove throat-clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs. See [references/phrases.md](references/phrases.md).
+
+2. **Break formulaic structures.** Avoid binary contrasts, negative listings, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups, false agency. See [references/structures.md](references/structures.md).
+
+3. **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").
+
+4. **Be specific.** No vague declaratives ("The reasons are structural"). Name the specific thing. No lazy extremes ("every," "always," "never") doing vague work.
+
+5. **Put the reader in the room.** No narrator-from-a-distance voice. "You" beats "People." Specifics beat abstractions.
+
+6. **Vary rhythm.** Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently. No em dashes.
+
+7. **Trust readers.** State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding.
+
+8. **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](references/examples.md) for before/after transformations.
+
+## Companion skill: humanizer
+
+For a gentler approach, pair with **humanizer** (`skill_view(name='humanizer')`):
+- **stop-slop**: aggressive — kills all adverbs, bans em-dashes, 5-dimension scoring
+- **humanizer**: 29 patterns with worked examples, preserves more voice — good when rewrite needs to stay close to original
+
+When user says "去AI味" or asks to humanize text, check both skills. For aggressive cleanup use stop-slop; for nuanced editing use humanizer.
+
+**CJK/中文小说 gap**: Neither skill covers Chinese-specific AI patterns. Known patterns to watch for in Chinese AI text:
+- 四字成语堆砌 (excessive 成语 stacking)
+- "然而/不禁/竟然/居然" overuse as plot transitions
+- 排比三连 (triple parallelism, same as English rule-of-three)
+- "宛如/仿佛/恍若" as default simile connectors
+- "目光/眼神" overuse for character reactions
+- "心中暗道" as internal monologue crutch
+- 过度心理描写 (excessive internal monologue padding)
+
+## License
+
+MIT