anti-slop-writing SKILL.md skillA
anti-slop-writing from kaos599/professional-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kaos599/professional-skills/anti-slop-writing@git:20260913.d90f819Pins git:20260913.d90f819 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kaos599/professional-skills
- Path
skills/anti-slop-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260913.d90f819, committed Sep 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 9, 2026
- Size
- 21,239 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Make writing sound like a person wrote it. Rewrites drafts that read as machine-generated, restores voice that AI editing flattened, and audits text for AI tells when asked. Use when a draft feels generic or corporate, when asked to de-slop or humanize text, when polishing anything an LLM helped write, before publishing a post or doc, or when someone asks whether writing 'sounds like AI'. Do not use it to adjudicate authorship disputes - this skill names patterns and never outputs an…
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
# Anti-Slop Writing Make the writing better and make it sound like a person. Removing tells is the means, not the end. Distilled from 45 published anti-slop and humanizing skills. Harvest method and hard counts in `references/corpus-evidence.md`. **Prefer clean drafting to cleanup.** When you are also the author, apply these rules while writing rather than running a repair pass afterwards. A post-hoc pass recovers less than not generating the tells in the first place; this skill exists for text that already exists. ## Read this first, or the rest will mislead you **Word lists are the weakest signal and they are going stale.** `delve`, `tapestry`, `vibrant`, and `myriad` are largely absent from current frontier-model output. A draft that avoids them is not human. It is just newer. Four consequences that govern everything below: 1. **Structure outlives vocabulary.** Sentence-shape and paragraph-shape tells survive model updates. Word tells do not. Weight structure higher. 2. **Tells are diagnostic in clusters, not alone.** One em dash means nothing. Em dashes plus a rule-of-three plus an "In conclusion" section plus uniform paragraph lengths is a confession. …
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How to install
mdr add kaos599/professional-skills/anti-slop-writing@sha256:f78887d677226d4dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260913.d90f819, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 9, 2026 and Sep 13, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| git:20260913.d90f819 latest | 2026-09-13 | d90f819 | 21,239 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.1c5c9e1 | 2026-09-05 | 1c5c9e1 | 21,238 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.ed62344 | 2026-09-05 | ed62344 | 10,285 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260822.1c0f163 | 2026-08-22 | 1c0f163 | 18,474 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.85e9c4d | 2026-08-09 | 85e9c4d | 12,043 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
kaos599/professional-skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xre6imdhma6kzpyf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kaos599/professional-skills/anti-slop-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f78887d677226d4dd5ebfb89708fd7028cf0b26196bbdfde06338524dd287b0e
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