zeroslop

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Find AI-sounding tells and slop in your writing.

Zero Slop finds slop- stock phrasing, mechanical rhythm, vague claims, and canned formatting in writing. Your existing AI assistant edits the draft; local checks guard its names, numbers, links, quotations, code, tables, and paths.

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npx skills add manavmishra/ZeroSlop --global

Before and after

A launch post, as AI wrote it:

We're thrilled to announce that our team has leveraged cutting-edge machine learning to deliver a seamless onboarding experience, reducing setup time by 40%.

The scorer rates that draft 99.3/100 and flags four phrases: “We're thrilledto,” “leveraged,” “cutting-edge,” and “seamless.”

The rewrite, limited to the draft's stated claims:

We used machine learning to reduce onboarding setup time by 40%.

Writing score: 9.5/100  [clear]
  Flagged phrases : 0 across 10 words

The rewrite retains the draft's stated result. See four complete, reproducible pairs in examples/.

What can I use it for?

• Tighten a launch post without losing the release details.
• Turn a padded product update into a useful changelog.
• Clean up an email while preserving names, dates, and numbers.
• Edit a research summary without flattening its qualifications.
• Gate a folder of generated copy before it ships.

The score describes writing patterns, not authorship.

Install

Try the free browser editor, or install:

Ask your assistant to edit:

/zero-slop (your writing)

Inspect without editing:

/zero-slop inspect (your writing)

Score locally:

npx zero-slop score draft.md

From a cloned checkout, gate a folder:

python3 scripts/slopscore.py --batch drafts/ --gate 25

Installed checks run locally. Skill editing follows your assistant's privacy settings; MCP editing is remote.

Prefer one hosted connection? Use the MCP

Connect the Zero Slop MCP to edit drafts inside your MCP client. No account or API key required.

https://mcp.zero-slop.ai/mcp

Connection options and listing status.

CLI

Edit a file through MCP:

npx --yes [email protected] deslop draft.md --genre professional

Use - for stdin and --json for structured output. --require-approved exits nonzerowhen review is needed; the result is still printed. Files stay unchanged. Node.js 22+;offline score also needs Python 3. CLI reference and privacy.

REST API

curl --fail-with-body --max-time 75 https://mcp.zero-slop.ai/v1/deslop \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"text":"Maya owns the pricing review.","genre":"professional"}'

Same pipeline and result as MCP. Check status before using the edit. Free, sharedcapacity; up to 20,000 Unicode code points per draft after trimming. Hosted CLIediting and REST process drafts remotely without storing them.

API reference · OpenAPI contract

What the workflow adds

Zero Slop ships no model. Your AI assistant reads and edits the draft in context,using Claude, GPT, or another compatible model. The repository supplies theworkflow and local tools for scoring and source checks.

What it catches

The scorer combines 294 weighted patterns with a 96-term lexicon. Examples include:

• binary contrast formulas: “It's not X. It's Y.”
• canned openers: “We're thrilled to…” and “Here's the thing…”
• vague attribution: “experts agree” and “studies show”
• significance inflation: “marks a pivotal moment” and “a testament to”
• promotional riders: “robust,” “seamless,” and “leverage” when used as hype
• repeated sentence shapes, crowded statistics, and overworked formatting

Marketing terms are scored in context, so an ordinary technical use of a word need not trigger the same penalty. references/eval.md documents all 80 checks.

Unedited AI drafts averaged 77 in bench/examples.json.Human writing scored 9 to 21 indata/corpus/must-not-flag/. These are referencepoints for the scorer, not authorship boundaries.

How it works

Eight responsibilities form one workflow. They are jobs, not separate models.Research supports the checks, not the number eight, which is an engineeringchoice.

The free web editor combines the five AI responsibilities into one response andmakes at most one live model call. A single response does not provide independent review.Any final change receives one final local recheck.

If a repair still misses the target, Zero Slop returns the safest source-preserving edit with a plain warning. It does not enter an open-ended rewrite loop.

Evidence and limits

Same model, same 18 drafts

A saved replay ran Zero Slop and three comparable open-source instruction sets over the same drafts with GPT-5.4, high reasoning, and pinned instructions. The outputs are frozen and reproducible.

This small LLM-reviewed regression study measures repeatable behavior; it does not establish universal writing quality. The drafts, hashes, method versions, prompts, and limitations are in bench/README.md.

Zero Slop's frozen outputs came from v2.5.9; newer versions only rescore thosesaved outputs. The current scorer matched the prior 84.2% result on the fixed38-item editorial panel. These fixed-sample checks are not field accuracy.

• A method-hidden editorial preference replay: bench/incumbent-blind-replay/
• External-checker clean rates: assets/bench-external-checker.png
• Method-hidden quality ranking: assets/bench-blind-quality.png
• Current-model corpus measurements: assets/bench-raid-plus.png
• Antithesis regression set: assets/bench-antithesis.png

On the 75 labelled antithesis pairs, the current reading pass reached 91.2% recall across the full set, 100% recall on shapes in reach, and 100% precision. The labels are maintainer-authored and the pairs are constructed, so this is a regression floor rather than field accuracy.

Local speed measurements cover the checks, with editing time excluded. On oneApple silicon Mac, the scorer processed 1,000 documents in a median of 1.9929seconds (501.8 per second); the five runs ranged from 1.9614 to 2.0945 seconds.It scored a 15,201-word document in a median of 0.3223 seconds. The sloweststress case took 2.2932 seconds, and learning from an 8,000-word edit took0.1592 seconds. The measurements and machine details are inbench/performance-results.json.

Across 12 interleaved runs against 2.7.7, we measured 0.62% lower median throughput,within the 5% regression limit. The separate two-way replay usedZero Slop v2.6.0.

The RAID+ audit checks how the scorer respondsto output from different models. Its pinned sample contains 7,627 usablegenerations:

RAID+ labels record which model produced each text; they do not grade writingquality. The Beemo paired-edit audit checks howscores change after human editing: raw responses averaged 30.2, expert edits25.3, and human answers 20.0. Beemo also lacks writing-quality labels.

Documented capability audit

This chart says nothing about writing quality or which tool writes better. Itrecords documented features at pinned commits; the data and reproduction notesare in bench/README.md.

The design follows research on predictable wording in machine text and overused vocabulary. It deliberately avoids authorship claims because detectors can misclassify non-native English.

Private learning

Learning begins only when you provide an original output and your reason-labelled edit. Zero Slop does not monitor files, browsers, or publishing tools. Private data stays under $ZERO_SLOP_HOME; it is not committed to this repository and does not retrain the model.

A profile selected by name can exempt existing watchlist words. It does notlearn cadence, tone, or a complete writing style.

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Contributing and support

Bug reports, false positives, examples, and carefully tested pattern improvements are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request, use the structured issue forms, or start a Discussion.

For setup help and responsible disclosure, see SUPPORT.md and SECURITY.md.

Credits

Zero Slop builds on ideas from no-ai-slop, humanizer, de-slop, stop-slop, unslop-text, and avoid-ai-writing.

License

MIT