deslopify

name	deslopify
description	Rewrite text to remove AI slop, tropes, and cliches. Makes text more genuine, natural, and human-sounding. Use when: user asks to deslopify, naturalize, de-slop, remove AI tropes, make text sound human, clean up AI writing, or review text for AI patterns. Triggers: deslopify, naturalize, de-slop, AI slop, AI tropes, sound human, AI writing.

Deslopify

Remove AI writing tropes and make text genuine, direct, and human.

Based on the Deslopify skill by Guillaume Laforge, grounded in the AI Writing Tropes directory.

Workflow

Step 1: Get the Text

Identify the text to deslopify. The user may provide:

• Inline text or a draft pasted into the conversation
• A file path to read
• A URL to fetch
• A request to deslopify your own future output

If the user wants you to deslopify a file, Read the file. If a URL, Fetch it.

Step 2: Load the Style Guide

Read references/style_guide.md from this skill's directory. This is the complete list of AI writing anti-patterns you must check against. Do not skip this step.

Step 3: Analyze the Text

Scan the text for tropes listed in the style guide. Categorize findings by:

• Word Choice (magic adverbs, "delve" family, "tapestry"/"landscape", "serves as" dodge)
• Sentence Structure (negative parallelism, "Not X. Not Y. Just Z.", "The X? A Y.", anaphora abuse, tricolon abuse, filler transitions, superficial analyses, false ranges, gerund fragment litany)
• Paragraph Structure (short punchy fragments, listicle in a trench coat)
• Tone (false suspense, patronizing analogies, "imagine a world", false vulnerability, "the truth is simple", grandiose stakes inflation, "let's break this down", vague attributions, invented concept labels)
• Formatting (em-dash addiction, bold-first bullets, unicode decoration)
• Composition (fractal summaries, dead metaphors, historical analogy stacking, one-point dilution, content duplication, signposted conclusions, "despite its challenges")

Present a brief summary of what you found before rewriting. Example:

Found 7 tropes:
- 3x Negative parallelism ("It's not X -- it's Y")
- 2x Em-dash addiction
- 1x Grandiose stakes inflation
- 1x Bold-first bullets

Step 4: Rewrite

Rewrite the text to eliminate the identified tropes while preserving the core meaning and intent. Follow these principles:

• Be direct. Say what you mean without rhetorical tricks.
• Vary sentence structure. Mix lengths and forms naturally.
• Use simple words. Prefer "is" over "serves as", "use" over "leverage".
• Cut filler. Remove "it's worth noting", "importantly", "interestingly".
• Stay specific. Replace vague claims with concrete ones or cut them.
• Don't overformat. Avoid bold-first bullets, excessive em dashes, unicode arrows.
• Preserve voice. If the original has personality, keep it. Just remove the slop.

Present the rewritten text to the user.

Step 5: Show the Diff (Optional)

If the text is short-to-medium length, show a before/after comparison highlighting the key changes and which tropes were removed.

Stopping Points

• After Step 3 (analysis): If the user only asked for a review/audit rather than a rewrite, stop here and present findings.
• After Step 4 (rewrite): Present the result and wait for feedback before making further edits.

Output

• A trope analysis summary listing what was found
• A rewritten version of the text, free of AI slop
• Optionally, a before/after diff of key changes