Deslop

Deslop is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by brycewang-stanford in Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

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Install Deslop

Copy Deslop into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/45-stephenturner-skill-deslop ~/.claude/skills/45-stephenturner-skill-deslop

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/45-stephenturner-skill-deslop/SKILL.md in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/45-stephenturner-skill-deslop
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Deslop does

Deslop removes AI writing patterns from prose so text sounds like a specific human wrote it. Use it when drafting, editing, reviewing, or revising any substantial prose—including scientific writing—to eliminate predictable AI tells, slop, and formulaic patterns.

Deslop is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Deslop comes from a repository tagged academic-research, agent-skills, ai-agent, awesome-list and communication.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Deslop: Remove AI Writing Patterns from Prose

Strip predictable AI patterns from writing. Make prose sound like a specific human wrote it, not like a language model generated it.

When to Apply

Any request to "make it sound human" or "deslop" writing
Any prose (articles, blog posts, essays, memos, newsletters, reports) or scientific writing (manuscripts, abstracts, cover letters, grant narratives, discussion sections, peer review responses) where the user wants it to sound natural rather than AI-generated
Editing or revising existing text where the user wants it to sound natural rather than AI-generated
Reviewing text for AI tells

Core Rules

1. Cut filler phrases

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Deslop

What else does brycewang-stanford publish alongside Deslop?
Deslop is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Composer, Academic Proofreader and Auto-Empirical Research. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Deslop does, and is maintained by brycewang-stanford in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills page.
How does Deslop compare to other Writing skills?
Deslop ranks #197 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Deslop against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.