Agent skill · writing content · aiskillstore
deslop
Deslop, humanize, edit, or audit AI-sounding, robotic, generic, corporate, or ChatGPT-like copy while preserving the writer's voice.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific guidelines for editing AI-generated text to enhance human readability and preserve voice, which the AI may not generate on its own.
What it needs
About 6k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Deslop Edit AI-sounding writing into clear human prose without replacing the writer's voice with a different generic voice. Keep the meaning, factual claims, attitude, and level of formality intact. Make the minimum effective edit. Leave strong human sentences alone. One rule overrides every stylistic preference: never return an em dash. Use a comma, period, colon, semicolon, parentheses, or a rewritten sentence. This applies to edited copy, explanations, and quoted evidence. Choose the job Edit Use edit mode by default when the user wants text rewritten, cleaned up, humanized, or deslopped. Return the cleaned text. Do not explain the changes unless the user asks. For a sentence or two, use a light touch. Detect Use detect mode when the user asks to audit, scan, flag, or judge a draft without rewriting it. For every pattern found: 1. Name the pattern. 2. Quote the relevant line or fragment. 3. Give a short fix. Do not rewrite the full draft, assign a slop score, or claim that AI wrote it. Named patterns are evidence; authorship detectors are guesses. If quoted source text contains an em dash, replace the character with [em dash] in the quotation. If the user has not provided text, ask for it. Ask about audience, format, or intended effect only when the missing context could materially change the edit. Pass 1: Read before editing Read the whole draft and identify internally: Its core point Its audience and job, when evident Three to five voice signals worth preserving, such as vocabulary, cadence, bluntness, humor, uncertainty, digressions, or formality The lines that already sound specific and human Do not reorganize the draft unless its structure blocks understanding. Do not invent facts, examples, statistics, sources, opinions, or confidence. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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