stop-slop

# Stop Slop Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose. ## Core Rules 1. **Cut filler phrases.** Remove throat-clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs. See [references/phrases.md](references/phrases.md). 2. **Break formulaic structures.** Avoid binary contrasts, negative listings, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups, false agency. See [references/structures.md](references/structures.md). 3. **Use active voice.** Every sentence needs a human subject doing something. No passive constructions. No inanimate objects performing human actions ("the complaint becomes a fix"). 4. **Be specific.** No vague declaratives ("The reasons are structural"). Name the specific thing. No lazy extremes ("every," "always," "never") doing vague work. 5. **Put the reader in the room.** No narrator-from-a-distance voice. "You" beats "People." Specifics beat abstractions. 6. **Vary rhythm.** Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently. No em dashes. 7. **Trust readers.** State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding. 8. **Cut quotables.** If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it. ## Quick Checks Before delivering prose: - Any adverbs? Kill them. - Any passive voice? Find the actor, make them the subject. - Inanimate thing doing a human verb ("the decision emerges")? Name the person. - Sentence starts with a Wh- word? Restructure it. - Any "here's what/this/that" throat-clearing? Cut to the point. - Any "not X, i...