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name: stop-slop
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description: Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
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trigger: Writing prose, editing drafts, reviewing content for AI patterns
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author: Hardik Pandya (https://hvpandya.com)
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---
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# Stop Slop
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Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.
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## Core Rules
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1. **Cut filler phrases.** Remove throat-clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs. See [references/phrases.md](references/phrases.md).
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2. **Break formulaic structures.** Avoid binary contrasts, negative listings, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups, false agency. See [references/structures.md](references/structures.md).
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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").
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4. **Be specific.** No vague declaratives ("The reasons are structural"). Name the specific thing. No lazy extremes ("every," "always," "never") doing vague work.
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5. **Put the reader in the room.** No narrator-from-a-distance voice. "You" beats "People." Specifics beat abstractions.
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6. **Vary rhythm.** Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently. No em dashes.
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7. **Trust readers.** State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding.
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8. **Cut quotables.** If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it.
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## Quick Checks
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Before delivering prose:
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- Any adverbs? Kill them.
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- Any passive voice? Find the actor, make them the subject.
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- Inanimate thing doing a human verb ("the decision emerges")? Name the person.
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- Sentence starts with a Wh- word? Restructure it.
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- Any "here's what/this/that" throat-clearing? Cut to the point.
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- Any "not X, it's Y" contrasts? State Y directly.
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- Three consecutive sentences match length? Break one.
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- Paragraph ends with punchy one-liner? Vary it.
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- Em-dash anywhere? Remove it.
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- Vague declarative ("The implications are significant")? Name the specific implication.
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- Narrator-from-a-distance ("Nobody designed this")? Put the reader in the scene.
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- Meta-joiners ("The rest of this essay...")? Delete. Let the essay move.
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## Scoring
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Rate 1-10 on each dimension:
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| Dimension | Question |
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| Directness | Statements or announcements? |
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| Rhythm | Varied or metronomic? |
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| Trust | Respects reader intelligence? |
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| Authenticity | Sounds human? |
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| Density | Anything cuttable? |
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Below 35/50: revise.
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## Examples
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See [references/examples.md](references/examples.md) for before/after transformations.
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## License
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MIT
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