# deslop-the-copy

A portable Agent Skill for Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and other compatible agents. It removes AI-generated patterns without replacing the writer's voice with a generic "human" one.

It can edit a draft or detect named slop patterns without rewriting. Every edit is checked against a repeatable evaluation, and em dashes are never allowed in the output.

## Why this exists

Wikipedia's [WikiProject AI Cleanup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup) maintains a detailed guide called [Signs of AI writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing), cataloging patterns observed across thousands of AI-generated texts. NPR, TechCrunch, and FlowingData have all covered it as the best reference for spotting machine-written prose.

Existing tools use these patterns to detect and strip AI tells from text: banned phrases, structural cliches, and sentence-level habits. Detection and removal are useful, but an aggressive rewrite can erase the person along with the slop.

deslop-the-copy preserves the writer's vocabulary, cadence, bluntness, humor, uncertainty, digressions, and formality. It makes the minimum effective edit, leaves strong human sentences alone, and never invents facts or opinions to sound more alive.

## Installation

This repository follows the open [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io) format.

**Cross-agent installer:**

```bash npx skills add skyzer/deslop-the-copy ```

The installer lets you choose from its supported agents, including Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot.

**OpenClaw:**

```bash openclaw skills install @skyzer/deslop-the-copy ```

**Manual installation:**

Clone or copy the entire repository into your agent's skills directory. Keep `SKILL.md` and `references/eval.md` together.

```bash git clone https://github.com/skyzer/deslop-the-copy.git ```

## Usage

Ask your agent to clean up any AI-sounding text:

- "Desl