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slop-score SKILL.md skillA

slop-score from closestfriend/slop-score-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add closestfriend/slop-score-skill/slop-score@git:20260611.04bdef9

Pins git:20260611.04bdef9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: closestfriend/slop-score-skill
Path: SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260611.04bdef9, committed Jun 11, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 4, 2026
Size: 2,127 bytes
Repository stars: 4
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Run Sam Paech's eqbench Slop Score heuristic against a piece of writing — scores AI "slop" (overused words, slop trigrams, and "not X, but Y" contrast patterns) on a 0–100 scale and flags the specific offending phrases. Use when the user wants to slop-score writing, check a draft for AI-slop / GPT-isms, or get a Paech-style slop readout. Independent of any literary-critic agent or persona.

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

# slop-score

Faithful standalone port of https://eqbench.com/slop-score.html. Reports the composite Slop Score (60% slop words + 25% not-x-but-y + 15% slop trigrams, leaderboard-normalized, `>25 = SLOP`) and the exact flagged phrases. **Flags, does not prescribe** — present the receipts; let the user decide what to cut.

## Invocation

`/slop-score <file-path>` — or paste text to score.

## Workflow

1. **Resolve input.**
   - File path given → use `--file <path>`.
   - Inline/pasted text → write it to a temp file and use `--file`, or pass `--text "<...>"` for short snippets.
   - Nothing given → ask the user for a file path or the text.
2. **Run the engine** from this skill's base directory (provided when the skill is invoked; the script self-resolves its data):
   ```bash
   node <skill-base-dir>/scripts/slop-score.mjs --file "<PATH>" --json
   ```
3. **Parse the JSON** and present three sections:
   - **Headline** — `slop_score`/100, verdict, and the three weighted sub-scores (`components`).
   - **Receipts** — `top_words`, `top_trigrams` (with counts), and `contrast_matches` (the actual sentences).
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add closestfriend/slop-score-skill/slop-score@sha256:effc78fcc6b406b0

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260611.04bdef9, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_sbg3chmgzvfekh72.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_sbg3chmgzvfekh72)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 4, 2026 and Jun 11, 2026, about one every 8 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260611.04bdef9 latest	2026-06-11	04bdef9	2,127 B	A	view · diff
git:20260604.bc6cd9c	2026-06-04	bc6cd9c	2,108 B	A	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 (2127 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

closestfriend/slop-score-skill · 4 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sbg3chmgzvfekh72
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=closestfriend/slop-score-skill/slop-score
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/effc78fcc6b406b0cb728a9dbebc2429d97c5efc021219c7aeca9e010c0dc607

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