slop-gate

1<!-- slop-ok: this skill quotes the tells it blocks -->
2 
3# slop-gate
4 
5`no-ai-slop` is an editor you invoke. This is a gate that runs whether or not anyone
6remembers it. It scans outgoing text, refuses on a tell, and returns the hit list so
7the rewrite is targeted.
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9Two rules make it usable rather than annoying: hard tells fail on a single hit, and
10words that are decoration at volume but legitimate once are counted rather than
11banned. Text inside quotes or backticks is stripped before scanning, so a piece that
12quotes a tell as an exhibit does not fail on its own examples.
13 
14## Why a gate and not a rule
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16A rules file is advisory, and advisory rules fail in a specific, repeatable way: they
17fire in the step the model thinks of as writing and not in the steps it thinks of as
18something else. A deck built by an agent can carry clean paragraphs under headline
19slide titles, because the titles were produced in a layout step where the writing
20rules never ran. Every surface nobody named explicitly sits on the unchecked side:
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22    slide titles, kickers          table headers, row keys       commit messages
23    tile and card labels           diagram node and edge labels  code comments
24    chart titles and legends       button copy, subtitles        memory files
25    alt text, image captions       Slack, email, issue bodies    PR descriptions
26 
27The gate closes that by scanning the text on its way out, whatever produced it.
28 
29## Run it
30 
31```bash
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