Stop Slop Skill locks facts and voice, diagnoses formulaic prose, rewrites only flagged spans, and repeats review against the original 35/50 bar.
Writing quality
Red-pen editing
Source preservation
About This Skill
Stop Slop is Hardik Pandya's red-pen editing Skill for preserving source facts, voice, required terms, and uncertainty while removing predictable AI phrasing and formulaic rhythm.
Quick Start
1Supply the draft or brief and record its facts, voice, required terms, links, and uncertainty.
2Diagnose the exact spans that feel generic, staged, vague, or mechanically rhythmic.
3Load only the phrase, structure, or example reference relevant to each flagged span.
4Rewrite the smallest spans, audit the source lock, and repeat the weakest dimensions until the 35/50 bar is met.
Core Capabilities
Source lock
Keeps the writer's facts, voice, required terminology, links, formatting, and uncertainty in view before editing.
Conditional diagnostics
Loads phrase, structure, and example references only when the draft needs their guidance.
Smallest-span rewrite
Changes the flagged span while preserving precise technical language, quotations, and deliberate voice choices.
35/50 revision gate
Scores directness, rhythm, trust, authenticity, and density, then repeats the weakest dimensions as needed.
SKILL.md
# Stop Slop
This edition derives from Hardik Pandya's stop-slop package at 8da1f030185bdfe8471220585162991eaeb970e9.
## Four-gate workflow
Lock the source, draft or diagnose, rewrite against the lock, and audit the final prose. Load the phrase, structure, and example references only when their flags apply. Repeat the weakest dimensions until the existing 35/50 score is met.
The seven-file repository package, README, changelog, references, and MIT license remain intact. This release edition intentionally has no real prose comparison.
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
What does Stop Slop preserve?
The candidate locks supplied facts, claims, names, numbers, dates, quotations, audience, point of view, tone, required terms, links, formatting, length limits, and uncertainty before editing.
Does Stop Slop identify who wrote a passage?
No. The optimized Skill describes textual patterns and preserves the source lock; it does not claim to identify the text's author or generator.
What is the 35/50 bar?
The original package scores directness, rhythm, trust, authenticity, and density. A total below 35 starts another revision of the weakest dimensions.
Is a prose comparison available?
No. Before/after output and blind-reader choice are intentionally not rendered in this release edition; the proof plan remains outside this source-diff scope.
Can I download it now?
Yes. Download the approved immutable Stop Slop Skill: Red-Pen Editing for Clearer AI Prose package from this page. Its source revision, file count, byte size, SHA-256, and release receipt are shown here; this evidence does not claim runtime outcomes.
