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A mechanical, countable anti-slop checklist for AI-generated frontend. Catches the specific signatures an undirected model defaults to: AI-purple glows, Inter-everywhere, em-dashes, div-based fake screenshots, eyebrow-on-every-section, beige+brass \"premium\" palettes, generic Jane Doe / Acme data. Advisory layer that pairs with frontend-mockup-loop (which owns the cite-a-source loop plus WCAG gates) but works standalone in any React/Tailwind/HTML project. Triggers: \"does this look AI-generated\", \"anti-slop pass\", \"remove the AI tells\", \"why does this look templated\", \"design review for slop\".

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anti-slop-frontend

A flat, mechanical checklist of the concrete signatures an undirected model emits when it tries to "look designed." Every rule here is countable or binary - you can mechanically verify pass/fail, not argue taste. That is the whole point: "it looks better" is not a check; "eyebrow count > ceil(sections/3)" is.

What this is, and is NOT

IS an advisory catalog of AI-tells, scoped by surface kind.
IS standalone - works with no tooling, in any React/Tailwind/HTML project.
IS NOT a design philosophy, a loop, or a gate. It scores; it never blocks.

Relationship to `frontend-mockup-loop`

Different jobs, intentionally separate:

	frontend-mockup-loop	anti-slop-frontend (this)
Shape	ground→contract→mockup→test→fix→learn loop	flat checklist
Basis	cite an external public rule (Nielsen, WCAG, Laws of UX)	codified AI-tell catalog
Authority	owns the hard gates (WCAG-AA, severity-4)	advisory only, drives the fix list
Domain	product UI, dashboards, flows	universal tells + marketing-surface tells

When both are present: the loop's a11y floor and cite-a-source rule win. This skill feeds concrete failing items into the loop's FIX step. It never overrides a gate, and a tell here is never a reason to violate a cited rule.

Honesty note: these rules are curated taste, hardened into countable form. They are good defaults, not laws of nature. Every rule has an override path: when the brief explicitly asks for the "banned" thing, it is allowed - execute it with intent, not by accident.

The three dials (set once, up front)

State these before reviewing or generating. They gate which rules fire and how hard.

VARIANCE (1-10) - 1 = perfect symmetry, 10 = artsy chaos
MOTION (1-10) - 1 = static, 10 = cinematic/physics
DENSITY (1-10) - 1 = art-gallery airy, 10 = cockpit/packed-data

Infer from the brief; don't silently use a baseline. Dashboards/data UI live high on DENSITY and low on VARIANCE/MOTION. Landing/portfolio live the opposite.

PART A - Universal tells (apply to EVERY surface, dashboards included)

These fire regardless of surface kind. A dense admin panel is just as guilty of AI-purple and Inter-everywhere as a landing page.

A1. Color

No AI-purple/blue glow as default. No automatic violet button glows, no random neon gradients ("the Lila tell"). Neutral base (Zinc/Slate/Stone) + ONE high-contrast accent. Override: brand literally is purple.
Max 1 accent color, saturation < 80% default. Lock it: the same accent on the whole page. A warm-grey UI does not grow a blue CTA in section 7.
One neutral temperature per project. Don't drift warm-grey ↔ cool-grey.
No pure #000000 / pure #ffffff. Off-black (zinc-950) and off-white; pure values kill depth.

A2. Typography

Inter is discouraged as the default. Reach past it (Geist, Outfit, Cabinet Grotesk, Satoshi) unless the brief wants neutral/Linear-style or is accessibility-first. Override exists.
Serif is very discouraged as default. "Feels premium/creative" is not a reason. Specifically banned as defaults: Fraunces, Instrument Serif. Serif only when the brief names one or the family is genuinely editorial/luxury/heritage.
Emphasis = italic/bold of the SAME family. Never inject a random serif word into a sans headline for "visual interest."
One corner-radius scale per page (all-sharp / all-soft / all-pill), or a documented rule followed everywhere.

A3. The em-dash ban (the #1 tell)

Zero — and zero –-as-separator anywhere visible. Headlines, labels, pills, body, quotes, attribution, captions, buttons, alt text. No "sparingly." Replace with a period, comma, colon, parentheses, line break, or a spaced hyphen -. Ranges use a plain hyphen (2018-2026, €40-80k).
Mechanical check: grep the rendered output for —/–. Any hit = fail.

A4. Fake data ("Jane Doe" effect)

No generic names. "John Doe / Sarah Chan / Jack Su" → realistic, locale-appropriate names.
No generic brand names. "Acme / Nexus / SmartFlow / Cloudly" → contextual names that sound real.
No fake-perfect numbers. 99.99%, 50%, 1234567 → organic values (47.2%, real-looking phone formats). Fake-precise engineering specs (5.8mm, 4.1×) are banned unless from real data or labeled mock.
No filler verbs. "Elevate / Seamless / Unleash / Next-Gen / Revolutionize" → concrete verbs.
No generic avatars (SVG "egg", default user glyph) → believable placeholders.

A5. Assets & icons

No div-based fake screenshots. Building a fake dashboard/terminal/task-list out of styled <div>s is the single biggest tell. Use a real screenshot, a generated image, a real mini component preview, or nothing.
No hand-rolled SVG icons. Use one icon family (Phosphor / HugeIcons / Radix / Tabler), standardized stroke width. Lucide only on explicit request.
No hand-rolled decorative SVG illustrations as default.
No broken image links. Use picsum.photos/seed/{descriptive}/{w}/{h} or generated assets, never dead Unsplash URLs.

A6. Interactive states (the "happy-path only" tell)

Loading / empty / error states exist, not just the static success state. Skeletons match final layout shape; avoid generic spinners.
Button contrast (a11y). Every CTA's text passes WCAG AA against its own background. No white-on-white, no transparent button on same-color bg with no border. (This one is also a hard gate when frontend-mockup-loop runs.)
Form contrast (a11y). Inputs, placeholders, focus rings, helper, error text all pass AA against the section bg. Label above input; never placeholder-as-label.

A7. Motion must be motivated

Every animation justifies itself in one sentence - hierarchy, storytelling, feedback, or state-transition. "It looked cool" is not valid. Motion-for-show is amateur.
Motion claimed = motion shown. If MOTION > 4, the page actually moves; if you can't ship working motion, drop the dial and ship clean static.
Banned mechanism: window.addEventListener('scroll', …) and React-state scroll/rAF loops. Use scroll-driven CSS, IntersectionObserver, or a motion library's scroll primitives.
Reduced-motion honored for anything above MOTION 3.

PART B - Marketing-surface tells (landing / portfolio / about ONLY)

Skip Part B entirely for dashboards, data tables, wizards, editors, product UI. These rules govern hero-driven marketing pages, where the model's worst templating habits live.

B1. Hero discipline

Hero fits the initial viewport. Headline ≤ 2 lines, subtext ≤ 20 words and ≤ 4 lines, CTA visible without scroll. A 4-line headline is a font-size error.
Hero top padding ≤ pt-24 desktop (content must not float mid-viewport).
Max 4 text elements in the hero: (eyebrow OR brand strip), headline, subtext, CTAs. Banned in hero: trust micro-strip, pricing teaser, tagline under CTAs, feature bullets, avatar row - those move to sections below.
No version labels (V0.6, BETA, INVITE-ONLY) unless the brief is a launch.

B2. The eyebrow tell (#1 violated rule)

An "eyebrow" = small uppercase wide-tracking label above a section headline (text-[11px] uppercase tracking-[0.18em]).
Max 1 eyebrow per 3 sections (hero counts as 1). Mechanical check: count uppercase tracking micro-labels above headlines; fail if > ceil(sections/3).
No section-number eyebrows (00 / INDEX, 001 · Capabilities, 06 · how it works). The section's position already categorizes it.
Default fix: drop the eyebrow. The headline alone is enough.

B3. Layout repetition

No 3 equal feature cards. The "three identical horizontal cards" row is the default. Use asymmetric grid, zig-zag, or a different family.
Zigzag cap: max 2 consecutive image+text splits. The 3rd in a row is a fail.
Section-layout-repetition ban. A layout family appears at most once. 8 sections → ≥ 4 distinct families.
No split-header ("big left headline + small right floating paragraph") as default. Stack headline over body instead.
Bento: exact cell count, real rhythm, background diversity. N items → N cells (no empty tiles); ≥ 2-3 cells have real visual variation (image, gradient, pattern), not all white-on-white text cards.
Marquee: max one per page.

No duplicate CTA intent. "Get in touch" + "Let's talk" + "Contact us" on one page = fail. One label per intent, everywhere.
No CTA wraps to 2+ lines at desktop (shorten label or widen button).
Logo wall lives UNDER the hero, is logos only (no industry labels beneath), uses real SVG marks (Simple Icons / devicon) or generated monograms, not plain text wordmarks.

B5. Decoration tells (banned by default)

No decoration text strip at hero bottom (BRAND. MOTION. SPATIAL.).
No locale / city / time / weather strips (LIS 14:23 · 18°C) unless the brief is genuinely place- or timezone-focused.
No scroll cues (Scroll, ↓ scroll, Scroll to explore).
No version footers (v1.4.2, Build 0048, last sync 4s ago) on marketing pages - those are devtool fixtures.
The middle-dot · is rationed (max 1 per metadata line; not the default separator for everything).
No decorative status dots before every nav item / row / badge. Only for real semantic state, sparingly.
No pills/labels overlaid on images and no pretentious photo-credit captions (Field study no. 12 · Ines Caetano) on stock/placeholder images.
No poetic section labels ("From the field", "Field notes", "On our desks") → plain functional labels or none.
No border-t + border-b on every row of a long list/spec table. Long lists (>5 items) use a real component (grouped chunks, card grid, tabs, scroll-snap), not a hairline-per-row <ul>.

B6. Copy self-audit

Re-read every visible string. Flag and rewrite: grammatically broken phrases, unclear referents, cute-but-wrong wordplay, fake-craftsman micro-meta. Plain functional copy beats AI-cute copy.

Mechanical pre-flight (the grep-able subset)

The rules below can be checked by string-search, not judgment. Run them last.

Em-dash: zero — / –-as-separator in rendered output (A3).
AI-purple: no default violet glow/gradient unless brand-justified (A1).
Accent lock: one accent hex family across all sections (A1).
Default font: not Inter (unless justified); serif is not Fraunces / Instrument Serif (A2).
Fake data: no "Doe / Acme / 99.99% / Elevate" (A4).
Fake screenshots: no div-built product UI; no hand-rolled icon paths (A5).
CTA/form contrast: every CTA + input passes WCAG AA (A6).
Motion: no addEventListener('scroll'); reduced-motion present (A7).
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name: anti-slop-frontend
description: "A mechanical, countable anti-slop checklist for AI-generated frontend. Catches the specific signatures an undirected model defaults to: AI-purple glows, Inter-everywhere, em-dashes, div-based fake screenshots, eyebrow-on-every-section, beige+brass \"premium\" palettes, generic Jane Doe / Acme data. Advisory layer that pairs with frontend-mockup-loop (which owns the cite-a-source loop plus WCAG gates) but works standalone in any React/Tailwind/HTML project. Triggers: \"does this look AI-generated\", \"anti-slop pass\", \"remove the AI tells\", \"why does this look templated\", \"design review for slop\"."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: blackbelt-technology
  version: "0.1"
  adapted_from: "Leonxlnx/taste-skill (design-taste-frontend, MIT) - countable rules distilled, stack-coupling removed, scoped universal vs marketing-only."

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name: anti-slop-frontend
description: "A mechanical, countable anti-slop checklist for AI-generated frontend. Catches the specific signatures an undirected model defaults to: AI-purple glows, Inter-everywhere, em-dashes, div-based fake screenshots, eyebrow-on-every-section, beige+brass \"premium\" palettes, generic Jane Doe / Acme data. Advisory layer that pairs with frontend-mockup-loop (which owns the cite-a-source loop plus WCAG gates) but works standalone in any React/Tailwind/HTML project. Triggers: \"does this look AI-generated\", \"anti-slop pass\", \"remove the AI tells\", \"why does this look templated\", \"design review for slop\"."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: blackbelt-technology
  version: "0.1"
  adapted_from: "Leonxlnx/taste-skill (design-taste-frontend, MIT) - countable rules distilled, stack-coupling removed, scoped universal vs marketing-only."
---

# anti-slop-frontend

A flat, **mechanical** checklist of the concrete signatures an undirected model
emits when it tries to "look designed." Every rule here is **countable or
binary** - you can mechanically verify pass/fail, not argue taste. That is the
whole point: "it looks better" is not a check; "eyebrow count > ceil(sections/3)"
is.

## What this is, and is NOT

- **IS** an advisory catalog of AI-tells, scoped by surface kind.
- **IS** standalone - works with no tooling, in any React/Tailwind/HTML project.
- **IS NOT** a design philosophy, a loop, or a gate. It scores; it never blocks.

### Relationship to `frontend-mockup-loop`

Different jobs, intentionally separate:

| | frontend-mockup-loop | anti-slop-frontend (this) |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | ground→contract→mockup→test→fix→learn **loop** | flat **checklist** |
| Basis | cite an **external public rule** (Nielsen, WCAG, Laws of UX) | codified **AI-tell catalog** |
| Authority | owns the **hard gates** (WCAG-AA, severity-4) | **advisory only**, drives the fix list |
| Domain | product UI, dashboards, flows | universal tells + marketing-surface tells |

When both are present: the loop's a11y floor and cite-a-source rule **win**.
This skill feeds concrete failing items into the loop's FIX step. It never
overrides a gate, and a tell here is never a reason to violate a cited rule.

> **Honesty note:** these rules are curated *taste*, hardened into countable
> form. They are good defaults, not laws of nature. Every rule has an **override
> path**: when the brief explicitly asks for the "banned" thing, it is allowed -
> execute it with intent, not by accident.

---

## The three dials (set once, up front)

State these before reviewing or generating. They gate which rules fire and how hard.

- **`VARIANCE` (1-10)** - 1 = perfect symmetry, 10 = artsy chaos
- **`MOTION` (1-10)** - 1 = static, 10 = cinematic/physics
- **`DENSITY` (1-10)** - 1 = art-gallery airy, 10 = cockpit/packed-data

Infer from the brief; don't silently use a baseline. Dashboards/data UI live high
on DENSITY and low on VARIANCE/MOTION. Landing/portfolio live the opposite.

---

## PART A - Universal tells (apply to EVERY surface, dashboards included)

These fire regardless of surface kind. A dense admin panel is just as guilty of
AI-purple and Inter-everywhere as a landing page.

### A1. Color
- **No AI-purple/blue glow as default.** No automatic violet button glows, no
  random neon gradients ("the Lila tell"). Neutral base (Zinc/Slate/Stone) +
  ONE high-contrast accent. *Override:* brand literally is purple.
- **Max 1 accent color, saturation < 80% default.** Lock it: the same accent on
  the whole page. A warm-grey UI does not grow a blue CTA in section 7.
- **One neutral temperature per project.** Don't drift warm-grey ↔ cool-grey.
- **No pure `#000000` / pure `#ffffff`.** Off-black (zinc-950) and off-white;
  pure values kill depth.

### A2. Typography
- **Inter is discouraged as the *default*.** Reach past it (Geist, Outfit,
  Cabinet Grotesk, Satoshi) unless the brief wants neutral/Linear-style or is
  accessibility-first. *Override exists.*
- **Serif is very discouraged as default.** "Feels premium/creative" is not a
  reason. Specifically banned as defaults: **Fraunces, Instrument Serif**.
  Serif only when the brief names one or the family is genuinely
  editorial/luxury/heritage.
- **Emphasis = italic/bold of the SAME family.** Never inject a random serif
  word into a sans headline for "visual interest."
- **One corner-radius scale per page** (all-sharp / all-soft / all-pill), or a
  documented rule followed everywhere.

### A3. The em-dash ban (the #1 tell)
- **Zero `—` and zero `–`-as-separator anywhere visible.** Headlines, labels,
  pills, body, quotes, attribution, captions, buttons, alt text. No "sparingly."
  Replace with a period, comma, colon, parentheses, line break, or a spaced
  hyphen ` - `. Ranges use a plain hyphen (`2018-2026`, `€40-80k`).
- Mechanical check: grep the rendered output for `—`/`–`. Any hit = fail.

### A4. Fake data ("Jane Doe" effect)
- **No generic names.** "John Doe / Sarah Chan / Jack Su" → realistic,
  locale-appropriate names.
- **No generic brand names.** "Acme / Nexus / SmartFlow / Cloudly" → contextual
  names that sound real.
- **No fake-perfect numbers.** `99.99%`, `50%`, `1234567` → organic values
  (`47.2%`, real-looking phone formats). Fake-precise engineering specs
  (`5.8mm`, `4.1×`) are banned unless from real data or labeled mock.
- **No filler verbs.** "Elevate / Seamless / Unleash / Next-Gen / Revolutionize"
  → concrete verbs.
- **No generic avatars** (SVG "egg", default user glyph) → believable placeholders.

### A5. Assets & icons
- **No div-based fake screenshots.** Building a fake dashboard/terminal/task-list
  out of styled `<div>`s is the single biggest tell. Use a real screenshot, a
  generated image, a real mini component preview, or nothing.
- **No hand-rolled SVG icons.** Use one icon family (Phosphor / HugeIcons /
  Radix / Tabler), standardized stroke width. Lucide only on explicit request.
- **No hand-rolled decorative SVG illustrations** as default.
- **No broken image links.** Use `picsum.photos/seed/{descriptive}/{w}/{h}` or
  generated assets, never dead Unsplash URLs.

### A6. Interactive states (the "happy-path only" tell)
- **Loading / empty / error states exist**, not just the static success state.
  Skeletons match final layout shape; avoid generic spinners.
- **Button contrast (a11y).** Every CTA's text passes WCAG AA against its own
  background. No white-on-white, no transparent button on same-color bg with no
  border. *(This one is also a hard gate when frontend-mockup-loop runs.)*
- **Form contrast (a11y).** Inputs, placeholders, focus rings, helper, error text
  all pass AA against the section bg. Label above input; never placeholder-as-label.

### A7. Motion must be motivated
- **Every animation justifies itself in one sentence** - hierarchy, storytelling,
  feedback, or state-transition. "It looked cool" is not valid. Motion-for-show
  is amateur.
- **Motion claimed = motion shown.** If `MOTION > 4`, the page actually moves; if
  you can't ship working motion, drop the dial and ship clean static.
- **Banned mechanism: `window.addEventListener('scroll', …)`** and React-state
  scroll/rAF loops. Use scroll-driven CSS, IntersectionObserver, or a motion
  library's scroll primitives.
- **Reduced-motion honored** for anything above `MOTION 3`.

---

## PART B - Marketing-surface tells (landing / portfolio / about ONLY)

Skip Part B entirely for dashboards, data tables, wizards, editors, product UI.
These rules govern hero-driven marketing pages, where the model's worst
templating habits live.

### B1. Hero discipline
- **Hero fits the initial viewport.** Headline ≤ 2 lines, subtext ≤ 20 words and
  ≤ 4 lines, CTA visible without scroll. A 4-line headline is a font-size error.
- **Hero top padding ≤ `pt-24` desktop** (content must not float mid-viewport).
- **Max 4 text elements in the hero**: (eyebrow OR brand strip), headline,
  subtext, CTAs. Banned in hero: trust micro-strip, pricing teaser, tagline
  under CTAs, feature bullets, avatar row - those move to sections below.
- **No version labels** (`V0.6`, `BETA`, `INVITE-ONLY`) unless the brief is a launch.

### B2. The eyebrow tell (#1 violated rule)
- An "eyebrow" = small uppercase wide-tracking label above a section headline
  (`text-[11px] uppercase tracking-[0.18em]`).
- **Max 1 eyebrow per 3 sections** (hero counts as 1). Mechanical check: count
  `uppercase tracking` micro-labels above headlines; fail if > ceil(sections/3).
- **No section-number eyebrows** (`00 / INDEX`, `001 · Capabilities`, `06 · how it
  works`). The section's position already categorizes it.
- **Default fix: drop the eyebrow.** The headline alone is enough.

### B3. Layout repetition
- **No 3 equal feature cards.** The "three identical horizontal cards" row is the
  default. Use asymmetric grid, zig-zag, or a different family.
- **Zigzag cap: max 2 consecutive image+text splits.** The 3rd in a row is a fail.
- **Section-layout-repetition ban.** A layout family appears at most once. 8
  sections → ≥ 4 distinct families.
- **No split-header** ("big left headline + small right floating paragraph") as
  default. Stack headline over body instead.
- **Bento: exact cell count, real rhythm, background diversity.** N items → N
  cells (no empty tiles); ≥ 2-3 cells have real visual variation (image,
  gradient, pattern), not all white-on-white text cards.
- **Marquee: max one per page.**

### B4. CTA & social proof
- **No duplicate CTA intent.** "Get in touch" + "Let's talk" + "Contact us" on one
  page = fail. One label per intent, everywhere.
- **No CTA wraps to 2+ lines at desktop** (shorten label or widen button).
- **Logo wall lives UNDER the hero, is logos only** (no industry labels beneath),
  uses real SVG marks (Simple Icons / devicon) or generated monograms, not plain
  text wordmarks.

### B5. Decoration tells (banned by default)
- **No decoration text strip** at hero bottom (`BRAND. MOTION. SPATIAL.`).
- **No locale / city / time / weather strips** (`LIS 14:23 · 18°C`) unless the
  brief is genuinely place- or timezone-focused.
- **No scroll cues** (`Scroll`, `↓ scroll`, `Scroll to explore`).
- **No version footers** (`v1.4.2`, `Build 0048`, `last sync 4s ago`) on
  marketing pages - those are devtool fixtures.
- **The middle-dot `·` is rationed** (max 1 per metadata line; not the default
  separator for everything).
- **No decorative status dots** before every nav item / row / badge. Only for
  real semantic state, sparingly.
- **No pills/labels overlaid on images** and **no pretentious photo-credit
  captions** (`Field study no. 12 · Ines Caetano`) on stock/placeholder images.
- **No poetic section labels** ("From the field", "Field notes", "On our desks")
  → plain functional labels or none.
- **No `border-t` + `border-b` on every row** of a long list/spec table. Long
  lists (>5 items) use a real component (grouped chunks, card grid, tabs,
  scroll-snap), not a hairline-per-row `<ul>`.

### B6. Copy self-audit
- Re-read every visible string. Flag and rewrite: grammatically broken phrases,
  unclear referents, cute-but-wrong wordplay, fake-craftsman micro-meta. Plain
  functional copy beats AI-cute copy.

---

## Mechanical pre-flight (the grep-able subset)

The rules below can be checked by string-search, not judgment. Run them last.

- [ ] **Em-dash:** zero `—` / `–`-as-separator in rendered output (A3).
- [ ] **AI-purple:** no default violet glow/gradient unless brand-justified (A1).
- [ ] **Accent lock:** one accent hex family across all sections (A1).
- [ ] **Default font:** not Inter (unless justified); serif is not Fraunces /
      Instrument Serif (A2).
- [ ] **Fake data:** no "Doe / Acme / 99.99% / Elevate" (A4).
- [ ] **Fake screenshots:** no div-built product UI; no hand-rolled icon paths (A5).
- [ ] **CTA/form contrast:** every CTA + input passes WCAG AA (A6).
- [ ] **Motion:** no `addEventListener('scroll')`; reduced-motion present (A7).
- [ ]

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Overview

anti-slop-frontend

What this is, and is NOT

Relationship to frontend-mockup-loop

The three dials (set once, up front)

PART A - Universal tells (apply to EVERY surface, dashboards included)

A1. Color

A2. Typography

A3. The em-dash ban (the #1 tell)

A4. Fake data ("Jane Doe" effect)

A5. Assets & icons

A6. Interactive states (the "happy-path only" tell)

A7. Motion must be motivated

PART B - Marketing-surface tells (landing / portfolio / about ONLY)

B1. Hero discipline

B2. The eyebrow tell (#1 violated rule)

B3. Layout repetition

B4. CTA & social proof

B5. Decoration tells (banned by default)

B6. Copy self-audit

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