unslop SKILL.md skillA

unslop from michaelshimeles/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add michaelshimeles/skills/unslop@git:20260904.a007fcd

Pins git:20260904.a007fcd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
michaelshimeles/skills
Path
unslop/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260904.a007fcd, committed Sep 4, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 4, 2026
Size
6,758 bytes
Repository stars
1,373
License
none declared

Cut AI tells from text you write or edit for a human reader (commit messages, PR titles and bodies, docs, code comments, replies). Apply before committing, posting, or sending; leave prose you didn't touch alone.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Unslop

Edit text to remove AI patterns and add human voice.

## Process

1. Scan for the patterns below.
2. Rewrite. Preserve meaning, match intended tone.
3. Add soul (see next section).
4. Self-audit: "What makes this obviously AI generated?" Fix remaining tells.

## Adding soul

Removing patterns is half the job. Sterile, voiceless writing is just as obvious.

- **Have opinions.** React to facts instead of neutrally listing pros and cons.
- **Vary rhythm.** Short sentences. Then longer ones that take their time. Mix it up.
- **Acknowledge complexity.** "Impressive but also kind of unsettling" beats "impressive."
- **Use "I" when it fits.** First person isn't unprofessional.
- **Let some mess in.** Perfect structure looks machine-made.
- **Be specific.** Not "this is concerning" but "there's something unsettling about agents churning away at 3am."

## Patterns to detect and fix

### Content

1. **Puffery.** "pivotal moment", "testament to", "evolving landscape", "setting the stage for", "indelible mark", "deeply rooted". Cut puffery, state what happened.
2. **Name-dropping.** Listing media outlets without context. Pick one, say what was said.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add michaelshimeles/skills/unslop@sha256:c861ee8c94debe24

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260904.a007fcd, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_63li5mfy7gju67q2.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_63li5mfy7gju67q2)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 4, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260904.a007fcd latest2026-09-04 a007fcd 6,758 BA view · diff
git:20260904.c27c4c32026-09-04 c27c4c3 6,595 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6758 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

michaelshimeles/skills · 1,373 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_63li5mfy7gju67q2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=michaelshimeles/skills/unslop
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c861ee8c94debe24e28fe3f7d567883ed95ad9741fb8a4227fe217db8667fa78

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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