📋 Stop Slop
This skill helps you rewrite prose to remove filler, avoid formulaic patterns, and enhance directness, rhythm, and authenticity.
npx playbooks add skill tdhopper/dotfiles2.0 --skill stop-slop
About Stop Slop
The Stop Slop skill is a workflow tool that helps developers rewrite prose to improve clarity and effectiveness by removing unnecessary filler words, avoiding formulaic patterns, and enhancing the overall directness, rhythm, and authenticity of the text. It can be used to refine and polish code comments, documentation, and other written content associated with AI coding projects. Developers would use this skill when they need to refine their writing to make it more concise and engaging.
The 18-word prompt provides structured developer workflow guidance — covering detailed methodology and consistent output formats. Install it in one command.
Use Cases
- Streamlining git workflows and commit conventions
- Setting up CI/CD pipelines and deployment scripts
- Managing monorepos and multi-package projects
- Automating release notes and changelogs
Example Prompts
System Prompt (18 words)
This skill helps you rewrite prose to remove filler, avoid formulaic patterns, and enhance directness, rhythm, and authenticity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Stop Slop?
Stop Slop is a free developer workflow skill for AI coding agents. This skill helps you rewrite prose to remove filler, avoid formulaic patterns, and enhance directness, rhythm, and authenticity.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with developer workflow expertise.
How do I use Stop Slop with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill tdhopper/dotfiles2.0 --skill stop-slop in your terminal to install Stop Slop into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Stop Slop?
Stop Slop is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Stop Slop free to use?
Yes, Stop Slop is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/tdhopper/dotfiles2.0/tree/main/.claude/skills/stop-slop. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
