Monitor CI
nrwl/nx
Monitor Nx Cloud CI pipeline and handle self-healing fixes. An agent skill from nrwl/nx.
UTILITY SKILL — Manually polish authorized prose for clarity and concrete language while preserving technical facts and APEX contracts.
Install Apex Unslop
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-unslop --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-unslop .claude/skills/apex-unslop && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "apex-unslop" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-unslop into .claude/skills/apex-unslop/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-unslop", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-unslopType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-unslop --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-unslop .agents/skills/apex-unslop && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-unslop" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-unslop into .agents/skills/apex-unslop/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-unslop", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-unslop --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-unslop .cursor/skills/apex-unslop && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "apex-unslop" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-unslop into .cursor/skills/apex-unslop/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-unslop", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git --path .github/skills/apex-unslop--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-unslop --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-unslop .gemini/skills/apex-unslop && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-unslop" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-unslop into .gemini/skills/apex-unslop/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-unslop", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-unslopInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-unslop .github/skills/apex-unslop && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-unslop" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-unslop into .github/skills/apex-unslop/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-unslop", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-unslop --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-unslop .opencode/skills/apex-unslop && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-unslop" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-unslop into .opencode/skills/apex-unslop/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-unslop", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
apex-unslop- GitHub stars
- 217
- Token cost
- ~1.6k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 762 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 39
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
UTILITY SKILL — Manually polish authorized prose for clarity and concrete language while preserving technical facts and APEX contracts.
- Works in 5 steps: Establish scope and protected content.… → Identify specific clarity problems. If… → Make the smallest authorized edits,… → …
- Technical validation
- SKILL.md covers Prerequisites, Scope and protected content, Workflow and Editing guidance, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Apex Unslop is an agent skill from jonathan-vella/apex. UTILITY SKILL — Manually polish authorized prose for clarity and concrete language while preserving technical facts and APEX contracts. WHEN: explicitly invoked as /apex-unslop for prose review or cleanup. DO NOT USE FOR: code changes, technical validation, or automatic workflow finalization.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file.
It sits in DevOps & Cloud. The repository describes itself as: APEX turns Azure platform engineering requirements into verified, deploy-ready IaC — powered by GitHub Copilot agents, real-time pricing, and built-in compliance. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Technical validation
- Automatic workflow finalization
Example prompts
- “/apex-unslop”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Establish scope and protected content. Reuse current context rather than loading unrelated files or all skills.
- Identify specific clarity problems. If the text is already clear, leave it alone.
- Make the smallest authorized edits, preserving meaning and the intended tone. Prefer one pass and one self-check.
- Compare the result with the original for factual changes, lost caveats, broken structure and over-compression.
- For file edits, run the relevant existing checks. Artifact lint belongs to its hook/reviewer; do not invoke it
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b8e5908. 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
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
github.com
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
Apex Unslop loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 762 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 jonathan-vella/apex at commit b8e5908, republished under its MIT licence (© jonathan-vella). 762 words, ~1,571 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/apex-unslop/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- apex-unslop
- description
- **UTILITY SKILL** — Manually polish authorized prose for clarity and concrete language while preserving technical facts and APEX contracts. WHEN: explicitly invoked as /apex-unslop for prose review or cleanup. DO NOT USE FOR: code changes, technical validation, or automatic workflow finalization.
- user-invocable
- true
- disable-model-invocation
- true
- argument-hint
- text or document path, audience, and review or edit scope
- license
- MIT
- metadata.author
- jonathan-vella
- metadata.version
- 1.0
- metadata.upstream
- cursor/plugins/pstack/skills/unslop
- metadata.upstream_commit
- e8d856f0273b42ebafe0ec3546bd645709e7c1b0
APEX prose cleanup
Improve clarity when the user explicitly invokes this skill. Do not run automatically, load it for every agent turn, or add it as a mandatory workflow step. Manual invocation does not change the caller's model, tools, role or edit permissions. This is prose editing, not an AI-authorship detector or a substitute for technical review.
Prerequisites
- Identify the requested text or file, audience, tone and whether the user wants review or edits.
- Read the current selected text and applicable file instructions. Ask only for unresolved scope.
- For files, establish ownership and review status before editing. Preserve unrelated user changes.
Scope and protected content
Edit only authorized natural-language prose. Review requests produce suggestions without file changes. An ambiguous request does not authorize a repository-wide cleanup. The default for code, commands, identifiers, configuration, structured data, quotations, license notices and generated content is leave unchanged.
Preserve facts, numbers, units, currencies, dates, SKU names, source URLs, citations, negation and requirement strength. Preserve uncertainty, evidence limits, accepted risks and qualifications. Never turn "may" into "will", an estimate into a guarantee, or accepted risk into remediation. Flag missing sources; never invent citations or delete an unsupported claim's caveat just to make the prose sound confident. Do not invent an actor to force active voice.
APEX file contracts outrank style preferences. Preserve required H2 text/order, emoji-bearing template headings, anchors, badge structures, links, tables, code fences and verbatim handoff lines. Use sentence case only for unconstrained headings; do not globally replace punctuation or Unicode characters.
Do not edit approved or hash-reviewed artifacts, upstream artifacts owned by another agent, or generated files in place as a style pass. Return proposed edits to the owner. Apply authorized artifact prose cleanup before review finalization; later changes require owner reconciliation and fresh review evidence, never hash restamping. This skill cannot grant approvals, resolve findings, change session state, or waive a required check.
Workflow
- Establish scope and protected content. Reuse current context rather than loading unrelated files or all skills.
- Identify specific clarity problems. If the text is already clear, leave it alone.
- Make the smallest authorized edits, preserving meaning and the intended tone. Prefer one pass and one self-check.
- Compare the result with the original for factual changes, lost caveats, broken structure and over-compression.
- For file edits, run the relevant existing checks. Artifact lint belongs to its hook/reviewer; do not invoke it
directly against
agent-output/**. Report any unverified requirement rather than claiming technical correctness.
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Editing guidance
- Remove filler, generic conclusions, flattery and conversational boilerplate when they add no information.
- State mechanisms and concrete outcomes instead of praise or decorative metaphors. Do not invent measurements.
- Prefer familiar words and consistent terminology. "Use" often replaces "utilize"; technical terms such as vector, API surface, harness, policy and managed identity remain when precise.
- Replace repetitive framing with a direct statement. Do not force every explanation into three items.
- Split dense sentences when it improves comprehension. Keep necessary articles, verbs and qualifications; fewer words are not automatically clearer.
- Prefer active voice when the actor is known and relevant. Reduce stacked hedges, not justified uncertainty.
- Reduce gratuitous bold, punctuation and decorative emojis only where the document contract allows it.
- Preserve useful lists, labels, parentheses and colons. Treat vocabulary patterns as review cues, not a blacklist.
- Keep general security or safety requirements even when the same sentence could apply to another project.
Regression examples
| Original | Safe treatment |
|---|---|
| In order to validate the file, run the existing check. | To validate the file, run the existing check. |
| The estimate may exceed EUR 200 if usage increases. | Leave unchanged: uncertainty, currency and threshold matter. |
| Deployment MUST remain blocked until approval. | Preserve MUST, condition and meaning; flag technical concerns separately. |
P0v4, Standard_LRS, apex-recall, --verify-cache | Preserve these identifiers exactly. |
## 🔒 Approval Gate | Preserve the required heading and its anchor. |
| The accepted recovery risk has not been remediated. | Preserve the distinction between acceptance and remediation. |
| Industry reports suggest this is faster. | Request a source or propose a qualified rewrite; do not fabricate evidence. |
Output
For supplied text, return the revised text or the requested review. For file edits, name the changed files and briefly summarize meaningful edits and checks. Separate technical concerns from style suggestions. Do not add generic reassurance, an "AI score", or a claim that the result is human-authored.
Attribution
Adapted from Lauren Tan's Unslop skill, part of Cursor's pstack plugin, under the MIT license. APEX scopes the original style guidance to explicit requests and adds technical-content and review safeguards. Upstream rule numbers are not retained as APEX rule identifiers. Updates require a reviewed adaptation, not a live import.
© jonathan-vella, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in .github/skills/apex-unslop of jonathan-vella/apex.
- SKILL.md
- LICENSE.txt
Open the folder on GitHubat commit b8e5908
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Vercel Optimize Auditvercel-labs/agent-skills | 32k | 8 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Analyze GitHub Action Logswithastro/astro | 63k | 1 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Openclaw Live Updateropenclaw/openclaw | 392k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Apex Unslop
What does Apex Unslop do?
UTILITY SKILL — Manually polish authorized prose for clarity and concrete language while preserving technical facts and APEX contracts. Apex Unslop is an agent skill from jonathan-vella/apex. UTILITY SKILL — Manually polish authorized prose for clarity and concrete language while preserving technical facts and APEX contracts.
When should I use Apex Unslop?
Apex Unslop fits situations like: technical validation; automatic workflow finalization.
How do I install Apex Unslop in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/apex-unslop in jonathan-vella/apex) into .claude/skills/apex-unslop in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Apex Unslop in Codex?
Run `npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/apex-unslop in jonathan-vella/apex) into .agents/skills/apex-unslop in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Apex Unslop 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 jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-unslop -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/apex-unslop, .gemini/skills/apex-unslop, .github/skills/apex-unslop and .opencode/skills/apex-unslop in your project.
What does Apex Unslop need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Apex Unslop is instructions for the agent only.
Does Apex Unslop access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Apex Unslop 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 Apex Unslop use?
Apex Unslop is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Apex Unslop use?
About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k 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 Apex Unslop?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Apex Unslop: Monitor CI (nrwl/nx, 29k stars), Terraform and OpenTofu Guide (agentscope-ai/QwenPaw, 36k stars), Vercel Optimize Audit (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars) and Analyze GitHub Action Logs (withastro/astro, 63k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Apex Unslop?
jonathan-vella (a GitHub user) maintains it in jonathan-vella/apex, which has 217 GitHub stars. The repository holds 39 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.
Source: jonathan-vella/apex on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.