Stop Slop

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

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Install Stop Slop

Copy Stop Slop 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/46-hardikpandya-stop-slop ~/.claude/skills/46-hardikpandya-stop-slop

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/46-hardikpandya-stop-slop/SKILL.md in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/46-hardikpandya-stop-slop
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Stop Slop does

Stop Slop removes predictable AI writing patterns from prose. Use it when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate filler phrases, formulaic structures, passive voice, and vague language.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Stop Slop

Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.

Core Rules

Cut filler phrases. Remove throat-clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs. See references/phrases.md.
Break formulaic structures. Avoid binary contrasts, negative listings, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups, false agency. See references/structures.md.
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").
Be specific. No vague declaratives ("The reasons are structural"). Name the specific thing. No lazy extremes ("every," "always," "never") doing vague work.

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

Frequently asked about Stop Slop

What else does brycewang-stanford publish alongside Stop Slop?
Stop Slop 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 Stop Slop 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 Stop Slop compare to other Writing skills?
Stop Slop ranks #204 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 Stop Slop against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.