wtf is no-ai-slop?

No AI Slop is a skill plugin designed for AI coding assistants like Claude Code or Codex. Its sole purpose is to strip out the recognizable patterns that make writing feel machine-generated. You install it by asking your AI assistant to add the skill globally, and from then on it sits in your toolkit waiting to be invoked. The project is created by Peter Yang and released under the MIT license. The skill targets more than 20 specific patterns that commonly appear in text produced by language models. These include binary contrasts like "It's not X, it's Y," throat-clearing openers like "Here's the thing," and dramatic fragmentations like "That's it. That's the whole thing." It also looks for weasel attribution, such as vague references to "experts agree," and importance puffery, like calling something a "pivotal moment." Beyond hunting for these tells, the skill pushes for better writing fundamentals. It encourages active voice, asks you to lead with your main point, and prefers concrete numbers over vague abstractions. You can use the skill in two main ways. First, you can paste in a draft you have written and trigger the skill with a simple command. The tool returns an edited version of your text along with a summary of what it changed. It aims to make only the minimum edits needed, and then it checks its own work against a set of tests defined in a file called eval.md. Second, you can ask the skill to analyze a piece of text and tell you if it reads as AI-generated. In this mode, it lists every suspicious pattern it finds and quotes the offending lines. The repository itself is quite small and focused. It contains a file named SKILL.md that holds the editing rules and workflow, and eval.md, which contains the pass and fail checks the tool uses to verify its edits. The creator notes that this skill is part of a larger personal AI system he has built.