stop-slop SKILL.md skillA
stop-slop from b-mendoza/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add b-mendoza/agent-skills/stop-slop@git:20260728.e5bfc3aPins git:20260728.e5bfc3a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- b-mendoza/agent-skills
- Path
.agents/skills/stop-slop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.e5bfc3a, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 2,629 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- none declared
Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
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
# 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
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add b-mendoza/agent-skills/stop-slop@sha256:7432a1d9ebdd42b2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.e5bfc3a, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_u5gqihhka45cjjsk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
b-mendoza/agent-skills · 3 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u5gqihhka45cjjsk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=b-mendoza/agent-skills/stop-slop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7432a1d9ebdd42b27666da8458af252edf549f723fb14bcd4791425103930310
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