Agent skill

Deslop

by dcramer in dcramer/peated

Simplifies existing Peated code, docs, prompts, plans, or explanations without changing required behavior.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Deslop

skills CLI
$ npx skills add dcramer/peated --skill deslop -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install dcramer/peated deslop --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcramer/peated.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/deslop .claude/skills/deslop && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
deslop
GitHub stars
102
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
613 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
7
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Simplifies existing Peated code, docs, prompts, plans, or explanations without changing required behavior.

  • Asked to deslop
  • SKILL.md covers Set Scope, Remove Slop, Preserve Necessary Structure and Follow Peated Policies, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Reduce overengineering

What it does

Deslop is an agent skill from dcramer/peated. Simplifies existing Peated code, docs, prompts, plans, or explanations without changing required behavior. Use when asked to deslop, simplify, remove jargon, trim, or reduce overengineering. Do not use for unrelated feature work or broad cleanup.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Humanizing AI text. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to deslop
  • Reduce overengineering
  • Unrelated feature work

Example prompts

  • “Use the deslop skill to simplify existing Peated code, docs, prompts, plans, or explanations without changing required behavior”
  • “/deslop”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit aee6890. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Deslop loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 613 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~63
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from dcramer/peated at commit aee6890, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© dcramer). 613 words, ~1,277 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/deslop/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
deslop
description
Simplifies existing Peated code, docs, prompts, plans, or explanations without changing required behavior. Use when asked to deslop, simplify, remove jargon, trim, or reduce overengineering. Do not use for unrelated feature work or broad cleanup.

Deslop

Remove words and structure the current task does not need. Keep its behavior and safeguards.

Set Scope

Read the root AGENTS.md, the nearest scoped AGENTS.md, and the code, tests, or docs that own the behavior. State what must remain true before changing it.

Treat the user's target as the boundary. Fix affected callers, tests, examples, and docs, but do not turn a focused simplification into a repository-wide cleanup.

Remove Slop

Look for complexity that has no current use or requirement:

  • jargon, vague or inflated prose, and unfamiliar words where common words are exact;
  • wrappers that only rename or forward arguments;
  • generic managers, services, registries, factories, and configuration layers that serve one known case;
  • options, extension points, fallbacks, compatibility paths, and abstractions justified only by a possible future need;
  • duplicate names, types, state, validation, comments, or documentation;
  • helpers that hide a short operation or split one concern across many files;
  • broad error handling, retries, or logging that obscures the real owner;
  • plans, TODOs, and transitional code whose work is complete.

Prefer familiar domain names, short sentences, active voice, small functions and modules, plain objects, and simple types. Prefer deleting a concept over renaming it when nothing still needs it.

Preserve Necessary Structure

Do not remove structure that enforces behavior. Keep:

  • stored IDs, links, ownership, history, evidence, and source relationships;
  • permission, privacy, validation, identity, idempotency, transaction, and concurrency boundaries;
  • stable public or saved contracts unless the task includes a safe migration;
  • domain terms that are more exact than a simpler-sounding substitute;
  • tests for required behavior and comments that explain a non-obvious rule or owner;
  • accessibility, logs, traces, failure reporting, and operational safeguards that have a current use.

Do not call code overengineered merely because it has layers. Show which layer, option, or concept is unused, duplicated, or owned elsewhere. When evidence is weak, leave the design alone or present the tradeoff instead of guessing.

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Follow Peated Policies

Peated's policies still apply. Read those relevant to the target:

  • Policy scope: Keep durable rules with a clear concern and an enforceable owner.
  • Agent design: Use ordinary code for fixed rules. Keep model workflows small, bounded, checked, and measurable.
  • Background work: Persist durable state first. Make retries bounded, owned, and safe to repeat.
  • Code comments: Explain non-obvious rules and tradeoffs. Remove narration and completed transition notes.
  • Data and permissions: Validate every boundary and keep identity, ownership, authority, and retry state explicit.
  • Database correctness: Preserve identity and relationships. Use constraints, locks, versions, and transactions for concurrent writes.
  • Error handling: Let unexpected errors reach their owner. Catch only to recover, translate, or clean up.
  • Interfaces: Expose the smallest useful action. Do not add wrappers or broad dependency objects without real behavior.
  • Logs and traces: Record stable events and safe context once at the boundary that owns the failure.
  • Naming: Use one Peated domain name for one concept. Treat generic architecture words as warning signs.
  • Sensitive data: Keep credentials, private content, direct identifiers, and unrestricted payloads out of logs, tools, models, and errors.

Use the relevant development testing guide too. Backend tests are integration-first, frontend tests cover behavior rather than appearance, and live model checks stay separate from deterministic tests.

For customer-facing Peated copy, also follow skills/peated-writing/SKILL.md.

Finish

Search for every affected use. Remove code and prose made obsolete by the change. Preserve compatibility only when a current caller, saved value, or published contract requires it.

Run focused tests, typechecks, lint, and formatting. Use manual QA where those checks cannot prove behavior. Report what became simpler, what behavior stayed the same, and any check that could not run.

Finish when the target has fewer unnecessary words, concepts, or paths, every remaining abstraction has a current reason, and required checks pass.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/deslop of dcramer/peated.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit aee6890

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User-Facing Text Cleanupguillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover23k—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Install Anti Sloptrycompai/crm11k1 repos~881Automated safety check: PassMIT
Stop SlopXe/site7318 repos~423Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Deslop

What does Deslop do?

Simplifies existing Peated code, docs, prompts, plans, or explanations without changing required behavior. Deslop is an agent skill from dcramer/peated. Simplifies existing Peated code, docs, prompts, plans, or explanations without changing required behavior.

When should I use Deslop?

Deslop fits situations like: asked to deslop; reduce overengineering; unrelated feature work.

How do I install Deslop in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add dcramer/peated --skill deslop -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/deslop in dcramer/peated) into .claude/skills/deslop in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Deslop in Codex?

Run `npx skills add dcramer/peated --skill deslop -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/deslop in dcramer/peated) into .agents/skills/deslop in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Deslop in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add dcramer/peated --skill deslop -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/deslop, .gemini/skills/deslop, .github/skills/deslop and .opencode/skills/deslop in your project.

What does Deslop need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Deslop is instructions for the agent only.

Does Deslop access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Deslop safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Deslop use?

Deslop is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Deslop use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Deslop?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Deslop: Humanizer (Azure-Samples/interview-coach-agent-framework, 172 stars), Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), User-Facing Text Cleanup (guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover, 23k stars) and Install Anti Slop (trycompai/crm, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Deslop?

dcramer (a GitHub user) maintains it in dcramer/peated, which has 102 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.

Source: dcramer/peated on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.