Skillsstraight-prose

Straight Prose

Writes and edits prose so it reads like a specific person wrote it and carries no stock AI patterns such as inflated significance, promotional wording, vague attribution, negative parallelisms, forced threes, em dashes, chatbot…

7 files and 506 lines, free under MIT. Built from arm-pz/straight-prose at 216bf85.

What it is for

Writes and edits prose so it reads like a specific person wrote it and carries no stock AI patterns such as inflated significance, promotional wording, vague attribution, negative parallelisms, forced threes, em dashes, chatbot pleasantries and over-formatting. Applies the rules while drafting, edits existing text without changing the author's voice or dialect, or audits a draft and lists each pattern with its line, using a scanner script for the mechanical ones. Use whenever the user asks to remove AI slop or de-slop a draft, asks "does this sound like AI" or "why does this read like ChatGPT", wants writing "in my voice" or "less like a chatbot", or pastes anti-slop style rules to apply, even if they never say "slop".

Not for

  • General editing such as tone changes, shortening, proofreading or fact-checking (use wordsmith)
  • For resumes and CVs (use recruiter-lens or applicant-kit)
  • For getting text past an AI detector

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Version, date and limits are read from the repo on every sync, and the check runs every night. Real-world runs are listed only with their evidence.

Version
Unversionedcommit 216bf85
Updated
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Works in
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Qoder and any agent that loads a SKILL.mdplain text; no API keys
Nightly check
Not checked yetIt joins the nightly check after its first run. How it is checked
Last real-world run
No public run yetRuns are published only with their evidence.
Known limits
Not built for:
  • General editing such as tone changes, shortening, proofreading or fact-checking (use wordsmith)
  • For resumes and CVs (use recruiter-lens or applicant-kit)
  • For getting text past an AI detector

Every file it installs

Measured from the packed archive at commit 216bf85. A skill is plain text your agent reads, so this list is all of it.

FileLinesBytes
.gitignore435 B
SKILL.md16011,615 B
evals/evals.json292,208 B
evals/trigger-cases.md474,467 B
references/sourcing.md432,506 B
scripts/slop_scan.py1537,567 B
scripts/test_slop_scan.py703,871 B
7 files50613 KB

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Read it before you install it: the skill lives at . in arm-pz/straight-prose.

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