Agent skill

Break AI Slop

by suyuan2022 in suyuan2022/suyuan-skill

Break AI Slop — force the AI to think like a real expert before doing anything.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Break AI Slop

skills CLI
$ npx skills add suyuan2022/suyuan-skill --skill break-ai-slop -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install suyuan2022/suyuan-skill break-ai-slop --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/suyuan2022/suyuan-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/break-ai-slop .claude/skills/break-ai-slop && 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
break-ai-slop
GitHub stars
308
Token cost
~981 tokens
SKILL.md length
525 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
6
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Break AI Slop — force the AI to think like a real expert before doing anything.

  • Works in 4 steps: Locate the Real Expert → Visualize the Typical Failure → Find the Deep Failure → …
  • Tasks that involve Humanizing AI text
  • SKILL.md covers The Protocol and Execution Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Break AI Slop is an agent skill from suyuan2022/suyuan-skill. Break AI Slop — force the AI to think like a real expert before doing anything. Extracts tacit knowledge, surfaces hidden failure modes, and distills the one constraint that decides success or failure. Use before any non-trivial task to eliminate generic, low-quality AI output. Triggers: 'break-ai-slop', 'anti-slop', 'slopbreak', 'slop check', '行家模式', '专家预检', '防止AI水货', '别给我水货', '认真做', '先想清楚再做', '这个别敷衍', '高质量输出'.

Its SKILL.md is about 980 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Humanizing AI text. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code Skills by Suyuan — AI-native productivity tools for real practitioners. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Humanizing AI text

Example prompts

  • “break-ai-slop”
  • “anti-slop”
  • “slopbreak”
  • “/break-ai-slop”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Locate the Real Expert
  2. Visualize the Typical Failure
  3. Find the Deep Failure
  4. Distill the Core Constraint

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 423473d. 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

Break AI Slop loads about 981 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 525 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~107
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~981

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 suyuan2022/suyuan-skill at commit 423473d, republished under its MIT licence (© suyuan2022). 525 words, ~981 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/break-ai-slop/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
break-ai-slop
description
Break AI Slop — force the AI to think like a real expert before doing anything. Extracts tacit knowledge, surfaces hidden failure modes, and distills the one constraint that decides success or failure. Use before any non-trivial task to eliminate generic, low-quality AI output. Triggers: 'break-ai-slop', 'anti-slop', 'slopbreak', 'slop check', '行家模式', '专家预检', '防止AI水货', '别给我水货', '认真做', '先想清楚再做', '这个别敷衍', '高质量输出'.
license
MIT

Break AI Slop

AI slop = mass-produced, generic, shallow output that technically answers the question but lacks real expertise. It comes from the AI's default behavior: pattern-matching against training data instead of reasoning from domain-specific knowledge.

This skill forces a cognitive calibration before execution. Not "think step by step" — but "become the right person, then do the right thing."


The Protocol

Before executing ANY task, complete all 4 steps. Do not skip. Do not abbreviate. Output your reasoning for each step, then begin execution.

Step 1: Locate the Real Expert

In the real world, who actually does this well — and in what context?

Do NOT answer with "an XX expert" or "a senior XX professional." That's a costume, not a person.

Be specific: what scene, what background, what kind of experience. A person who has done this hundreds of times, made mistakes, built intuition, and now operates with a feel for the work that no textbook captures.

Then extract their tacit knowledge:

  • What experience, instincts, and judgment criteria do they rely on?
  • What signals make them immediately alert?
  • What seemingly reasonable approaches would they NEVER use — and why?
  • What unwritten rules separate their work from a novice's?
Step 2: Visualize the Typical Failure

When a novice or a generic AI does this, what does the failure actually look like?

Do NOT say "not deep enough" or "not accurate enough." Those are meta-descriptions, not failures.

Describe the concrete, visible output of failure:

  • What does the wrong result look like? (Be specific enough that someone could recognize it)
  • Why does this error happen? (What assumption or shortcut causes it?)
  • Where exactly does it go wrong? (Which step, which judgment call?)
Show full SKILL.md (248 more words)Show less
Step 3: Find the Deep Failure

Assume you've avoided all common mistakes AND applied the expert's tacit knowledge. If the result is STILL wrong, what's the root cause?

This is the hardest step. Common errors are surface-level. The deep failure is structural:

  • Is the goal wrong? (Solving the wrong problem)
  • Is a premise wrong? (Hidden assumption that seems obvious but isn't)
  • Is the evaluation criteria wrong? (Optimizing for the wrong metric)
  • Is there an invisible constraint? (Something not stated but critical)
  • Did you misread what the user actually needs? (They asked for X but need Y)
Step 4: Distill the Core Constraint

Based on Steps 1-3, what is the ONE constraint that determines success or failure?

Compress everything above into a single, actionable constraint. This becomes the highest-priority rule during execution — above all defaults, above all habits, above all "best practices."

Format: "The core constraint is: [one sentence]."


Execution Rules

  1. All 4 steps must be completed before any execution begins. No exceptions.
  2. Show your reasoning. The calibration is not internal monologue — output it so the user can see (and correct) your thinking.
  3. Step 4's constraint overrides everything. If a "best practice" conflicts with the core constraint, the core constraint wins.
  4. If you can't identify a deep failure in Step 3, say so honestly. "I don't see a deep failure here" is better than fabricating one.
  5. Re-calibrate if the task pivots. If the user changes direction mid-task, re-run the protocol for the new direction.

© suyuan2022, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in break-ai-slop of suyuan2022/suyuan-skill.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 423473d

Compare with similar skills

Break AI Slop next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Break AI Slop compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Break AI Slop this skillsuyuan2022/suyuan-skill308—~981Automated safety check: PassMIT
HumanizerAzure-Samples/interview-coach-agent-framework17338 repos~5.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Avoid AI Writingconorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing4.9k3 repos~8.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
User-Facing Text Cleanupguillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover24k—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Install Anti Sloptrycompai/crm11k1 repos~881Automated safety check: PassMIT
Stop SlopXe/site7328 repos~423Automated safety check: PassMIT

Similar skills

  • Humanizer

    Azure-Samples/interview-coach-agent-framework

    Official

    Remove signs of AI-generated writing from text. An agent skill from Azure-Samples/interview-coach-agent-framework.

    173 GitHub starsUsed in 38 repos~5.8k tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed
  • Avoid AI Writing

    conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing

    Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").

    4.9k GitHub starsUsed in 3 repos~8.1k tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed
  • User-Facing Text Cleanup

    guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover

    Audits prose for invisible Unicode characters and rewrites it while keeping facts, citations, code and required disclosures unchanged and the writer's voice intact.

    24k GitHub stars~3.5k tokensUpdated 2 days ago
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed
  • Install Anti Slop

    trycompai/crm

    Install and configure the anti-slop Oxlint plugin in a local TypeScript or JavaScript repository.

    11k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~881 tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed
  • Stop Slop

    Xe/site

    Remove AI writing patterns from prose. An agent skill from Xe/site.

    732 GitHub starsUsed in 8 repos~423 tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed
  • Chinese Text Humanizer

    op7418/Humanizer-zh

    Edits Chinese articles, comments and documents to remove filler, repetition and template phrasing while keeping the facts, the level of certainty and the author's voice.

    19k GitHub stars~2k tokensUpdated 18 days ago
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed

More from suyuan2022/suyuan-skill

  • Claude Cleanup Audit

    suyuan2022/suyuan-skill

    Audit and safely modify local Claude Code and Claude Desktop cleanup/privacy settings on macOS.

    308 GitHub stars~1.5k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Claude Cleanup

    suyuan2022/suyuan-skill

    在 macOS 上安全审计、完整备份、清理或重置 Claude Code 与 Claude Desktop 本机状态。适用于清理可再生缓存和日志、轮换本地 ID、重置桌面端登录态、移除应用、继承现有遥测状态、启用最小提示词模式或修改台北时区;不用于规避封禁或平台风控。

    308 GitHub stars~634 tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check: notes
  • Task Triage

    suyuan2022/suyuan-skill

    Task triage with position-based thinking. An agent skill from suyuan2022/suyuan-skill.

    308 GitHub stars~1.1k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Codex Review

    suyuan2022/suyuan-skill

    Dual-model code review via Codex CLI. An agent skill from suyuan2022/suyuan-skill.

    308 GitHub stars~3.5k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check: warnings
  • Whatis

    suyuan2022/suyuan-skill

    What Is This — explain anything as a picture-first HTML page.

    308 GitHub stars~606 tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

Questions about Break AI Slop

What does Break AI Slop do?

Break AI Slop — force the AI to think like a real expert before doing anything. Break AI Slop is an agent skill from suyuan2022/suyuan-skill. Break AI Slop — force the AI to think like a real expert before doing anything.

When should I use Break AI Slop?

Break AI Slop fits situations like: tasks that involve Humanizing AI text.

How do I install Break AI Slop in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add suyuan2022/suyuan-skill --skill break-ai-slop -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (break-ai-slop in suyuan2022/suyuan-skill) into .claude/skills/break-ai-slop in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Break AI Slop in Codex?

Run `npx skills add suyuan2022/suyuan-skill --skill break-ai-slop -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (break-ai-slop in suyuan2022/suyuan-skill) into .agents/skills/break-ai-slop in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Break AI Slop 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 suyuan2022/suyuan-skill --skill break-ai-slop -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/break-ai-slop, .gemini/skills/break-ai-slop, .github/skills/break-ai-slop and .opencode/skills/break-ai-slop in your project.

What does Break AI Slop need to run?

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

Does Break AI Slop 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 Break AI Slop 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 Break AI Slop use?

Break AI Slop 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 Break AI Slop use?

About 981 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k 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 Break AI Slop?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Break AI Slop: Humanizer (Azure-Samples/interview-coach-agent-framework, 173 stars), Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), User-Facing Text Cleanup (guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover, 24k 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 Break AI Slop?

suyuan2022 (a GitHub user) maintains it in suyuan2022/suyuan-skill, which has 308 GitHub stars. The repository holds 6 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 24, 2026.

Source: suyuan2022/suyuan-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.