GitHub – hardikpandya/stop-slop: A skill file for removing AI tells from prose

**Stop Sounding Like a Robot: A Practical Way to Clean Up AI Writing**

If you’ve ever used AI to help with writing, you’ve probably noticed something… off.

The sentences feel polished, but a little predictable. The structure is neat, maybe too neat. Certain phrases pop up again and again. You tweak a word here, delete a line there, but it still carries that subtle “AI smell.”

That’s exactly what Stop Slop by Hardik Pandya is designed to fix.

It’s a skill file you can plug into Claude or any large language model to actively remove common AI tells from prose. And it goes deeper than just banning a few overused phrases.

**So what does it actually do?**

It targets patterns.

AI writing tends to lean on throat-clearing openers, business jargon, vague declarations, and heavy adverb use. Structurally, it falls into habits like binary contrasts, dramatic fragmentation, passive voice, or that slightly distant narrator tone. You know the one. Technically correct, emotionally flat.

Stop Slop provides clear rules to catch and eliminate these. No em dashes. No lazy extremes. No Wh-question sentence starters. Active voice required. It even includes a rating system, scoring writing across dimensions. If you land below 35 out of 50, you revise.

I’ve seen firsthand how subtle these patterns can be. You think you’ve written something natural. Then you read it out loud… and it sounds like a corporate blog from 2018. Tools like this act almost like a writing coach sitting beside you, quietly pointing out, “That line feels generic. Try again.”

What I appreciate most is that it doesn’t try to make AI louder or more impressive. It pushes for clarity. Simplicity. Human rhythm.

As AI writing becomes more common, the real advantage won’t be using AI. It will be shaping it well. Tools like Stop Slop are an early step in that direction, helping us move from machine-polished text to something that actually feels lived in.

And honestly, that’s the kind of writing people want to read.