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

**Stop-Slop: A Practical Way to Make AI Writing Sound Human Again**

Let’s be honest. You can *feel* AI writing sometimes.

It’s polished, structured, technically correct… and still oddly flat. The same predictable openings. The dramatic pauses. The “In today’s fast-paced world” energy. You read it and think, something’s off.

That’s exactly the problem Stop-Slop by Hardik Pandya is trying to solve.

This GitHub project is a **skill file designed to strip out AI tells from prose**. Not by adding more fluff. By removing the patterns that give AI away.

And it’s surprisingly specific.

The project identifies common issues like throat-clearing openers, overused emphasis phrases, business jargon, vague statements, and meta-commentary. It also flags structural clichés. Binary contrasts. Dramatic fragmentation. Passive voice. Even sentence habits like starting with “What” or “Why” too often.

It reads like someone studied AI writing the way a music teacher studies a beginner pianist. You start noticing the rhythm mistakes. The repetitive beats. The safe but lifeless phrasing.

What makes this useful is how practical it is. You can:

• Add the folder as a skill in Claude Code
• Upload the SKILL.md file to Claude Projects
• Copy the core rules into custom instructions
• Or include it directly in API system prompts

There’s even a scoring system. Rate the writing across five dimensions. If it scores below 35 out of 50, revise.

I’ve experimented with similar constraint-based edits before. The first thing you notice is how much fluff disappears. Sentences tighten. Voice becomes clearer. You stop hiding behind structure and start actually saying something.

And that’s really the bigger shift here.

As AI writing becomes more common, sounding human won’t be about adding personality on top. It will be about removing formula underneath.

Projects like Stop-Slop point toward a future where we use AI more intentionally. Not to replace voice, but to refine it. And that feels like a healthy direction.