Open source skill file

Unslop

The anti-slop content framework for AI agents

AI content is everywhere. Good AI content is rare. Open-source skill files that stop Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini from generating copy that feels like nobody wrote it. Five signals. Any writer. Free.

step 1 Copy SKILL.md and paste into your AI
Presence Test -- live example
Before After
"Our revolutionary platform seamlessly empowers teams to unlock their full potential with cutting-edge, industry-leading tools designed to transform the way you work."
No more "does 3pm work? okay how about Thursday?" for the tenth time. Books the meeting in one message. You get your mornings back.
Revolutionary Seamlessly Cutting-edge Empower Signal 1: pass
Revolutionary Transformative Seamlessly Cutting-edge Innovative Powerful Unleash Elevate Supercharge World-class Game-changer Robust Dynamic Disruptive Empower Next-level Revolutionary Transformative Seamlessly Cutting-edge Innovative Powerful Unleash Elevate Supercharge World-class Game-changer Robust Dynamic Disruptive Empower Next-level
The mental model

Excess signals
hidden absence.
Specificity signals
real presence.

Two questions reveal everything about a piece of writing. How much is here? And how specific is it? AI defaults to too much, too general. Every time. The five signals map exactly where it goes wrong, and how to fix it.

The two-axis map
General Specific Too much Right amount Absence zone Presence zone
Signal 1
Signal 2
Signal 3
Signal 4
Signal 5

Signals 1, 2, 3 land in the absence zone.
Signals 4 and 5 earn the presence zone.
The map produces the signals.

Absence has
five disguises.

05 signals
01
Absence

Over-effort breaks trust

Stacked claims, adjectives piled on adjectives, sentences that exist to impress. The brain reads: if they are working this hard to convince me, they must have something to hide. Empty vessels make the most noise.

02
Absence

Over-perfection breaks connection

One smooth, even, rehearsed pass. No hesitation, no texture. We connect to the human behind the work, not the work itself. A flawless surface has no human to connect to.

03
Absence

Over-clutter breaks worth

Everything covered, every feature listed. Premium things say one thing. Cheap things shout everything. What you do not say signals as much as what you do.

04
Presence

Specificity signals lived truth

Real memory stores sensory detail. When someone actually lived something, the specifics are there. Category language proves absence. Detail proves presence.

05
Presence

Narrowing signals confidence

Claiming to be for everyone is what insecure things do. A thing that knows exactly who it is for reads as real and confident. Narrowing is not an apology. It is a declaration.

Run the full test on any piece of writing.
Get the skill file

Remove these first.

They collapse trust before a reader reaches your message. Each one asserts value without demonstrating it.

Words that assert without demonstrating
RevolutionaryTransformative SeamlessCutting-edge InnovativePowerful UnleashElevate SuperchargeWorld-class Game-changerRobust DynamicEmpower Next-level
Punctuation giveaway
Em-dash En-dash

Banned openers
Certainly!Absolutely! Great question!I would be happy to In today's world
The replacement rule

Replace every banned word with the specific true thing it was trying to gesture at. Not "revolutionary platform" but what it actually does. Not "seamless experience" but what the person actually feels. The specific true thing beats any adjective.

Install once.
Applies every time.

This will not change your tone of voice. Think of it as an expert copywriter sitting next to you who knows your voice, catches when you drift into slop, and pulls you back without rewriting who you are. It preserves the tone. It strips the AI residue.

01
Paste into any AI Click "Get the skill file," copy all contents, paste at the start of your conversation. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.
02
Add to your project Copy SKILL.md into your project root. Any AI agent that reads skill files picks it up automatically on every run.
03
Star on GitHub Free and open source. Fork it, adapt it, build on it. If it improves your work, share it.
Why this exists

"I could tell when writing was AI-generated.
The strange part was, I could not explain why."

Over years of copywriting and market research, conversations with more than 2,500 people in person, face to face, certain patterns kept appearing. Human writing carries signals that are hard to fake: lived experience, emotional risk, specific observation, genuine intent. Unslop is those patterns, organized into something anyone can use.

Sandip Prakash Badrappan