no-ai-slop-writing-rules

👋 Hi, you were probably sent here.

If someone handed you a link to this repo, it is because you sent them AI-generated shit so obviously AI-generated that they stopped reading partway through and went looking for a polite way to say "run it through a human first."

Pasting raw Gemini or ChatGPT output with zero editing, or running a project with no anti-slop rules at all, is the 2026 equivalent of handing out a business card with an @aol.com email on it. The tool is fine. Shipping its first draft with your name on it is the part people notice.

Nobody is mad that you used a model. Everybody can tell, because the model has tics and you left every one of them in.

The dead giveaway is the "It's not X. It's Y." construction, and its cousin "It's not just X, it's Y with Z." This isn't a price increase. It's a betrayal of trust. This isn't just a phone. It's a statement. The model loves it because it sounds profound and commits to nothing. Real people do not talk like this. They say what the thing is.

Then there is the dramatic noun-phrase heading. The model writes "The Pricing Trap" when the honest heading is "how to avoid scam pricing." It writes "The Hidden Cost of Convenience" instead of "subscriptions add up." A heading is supposed to tell you what is in the section, not tease it like a movie poster.

And the rest of the kit: "Let's dive in." "Here's the thing." "But here's the kicker." "In a world where..." A 🚀 emoji in front of a bullet. Every list built in threes because three sounds complete. The fake-punchy one-line paragraph.

For drama.

Read your own output before you send it. That is the whole ask.

The rules below are what "read it first" looks like written down. Steal them.

A portable Agent Skills package for writing in Louis Rossmann's voice without AI slop. It is general-purpose: essays, scripts, posts, documentation, emails, anything made of sentences. It is not tied to any wiki, CMS, or publishing system.

Compatible with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and agents that follow the Agent Skills specification.

What it does

It gives an agent two things. First, a hard rule set that strips the patterns marking machine-generated text: emdashes, intensifiers, filler phrases, hollow statements, fabricated facts, AI transition words, dramatic headings, and the rest. Second, a data-driven voice profile built from corpus analysis of 513,683 words of Rossmann's writing: testable-number density, high sentence-length variance, claim-then-proof paragraph structure, contractions, the ampersand habit, and contempt shown through precision rather than adjectives.

How to use it

Install the skills into an agent project, drop this folder next to a project, or point Claude Code at it. When you ask an agent to write or edit prose, it reads the two skills, writes against the rules, then self-checks the output against the banned-words reference before returning it.

Installation

CLI install

npx skills add realrossmanngroup/no_ai_slop_writing_rules

Skills install to .agents/skills/ in your project.

Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add realrossmanngroup/no_ai_slop_writing_rules
/plugin install no-ai-slop-writing-rules

Clone and copy

git clone https://github.com/realrossmanngroup/no_ai_slop_writing_rules.git
cp -r no_ai_slop_writing_rules/skills/* your-project/.agents/skills/

You can also read the files yourself as a style guide. Every file here obeys its own rules, so they double as worked examples.

What each file does

Scope

The examples in the voice skill are repair-themed because that is what the source corpus covers. The traits themselves are structural, so the voice applies to any subject. Write about anything in it; the rules hold.