Louis Rossmann
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no-ai-slop-writing-rules
👋 Hi, you were probably sent here.
If someone handed you a link to this repo, it is because you sent them AI-generated shit so obviously AI-generated that they stopped reading partway through and went looking for a polite way to say "run it through a human first."
Pasting raw Gemini or ChatGPT output with zero editing, or running a project with no anti-slop rules at all, is the 2026 equivalent of handing out a business card with an
@aol.comemail on it. The tool is fine. Shipping its first draft with your name on it is the part people notice.Nobody is mad that you used a model. Everybody can tell. The em dashes everywhere. The sentence that opens with "In today's fast-paced world." The "it's important to note that," the "furthermore," the "moreover." The part where you "delve into" something or "leverage" it to "foster" a "robust," "seamless," "holistic" outcome. "A myriad of" this. "A plethora of" that. The closer that begins "In conclusion" and the one before it that promises to "pave the way." Three identical paragraphs that each say nothing. The bulleted list where every item is the same length and starts with a bold word and a colon. It reads like it was written to fill a word count, because it was. Read your own output before you send it. That is the whole ask.
The rules below are what "read it first" looks like written down. Steal them.
A portable Claude Code reference for writing in Louis Rossmann's voice without AI slop. It is general-purpose: essays, scripts, posts, documentation, emails, anything made of sentences. It is not tied to any wiki, CMS, or publishing system.
What it does
It gives Claude two things. First, a hard rule set that strips the patterns marking machine-generated text: emdashes, intensifiers, filler phrases, hollow statements, fabricated facts, AI transition words, dramatic headings, and the rest. Second, a data-driven voice profile built from corpus analysis of 513,683 words of Rossmann's writing: testable-number density, high sentence-length variance, claim-then-proof paragraph structure, contractions, the ampersand habit, and contempt shown through precision rather than adjectives.
How to use it
Drop this folder next to a project, or point Claude Code at it. When you ask Claude to write or edit prose, it reads CLAUDE.md and the two skills, writes against the rules, then self-checks the output against the banned-words reference before returning it.
You can also read the files yourself as a style guide. Every file here obeys its own rules, so they double as worked examples.
What each file does
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
CLAUDE.md |
The entrypoint. States the purpose, summarizes the voice, sets the operating rules, and lists all 24 anti-slop rules. |
.claude/skills/no-ai-slop/SKILL.md |
The anti-slop rules as actionable guidance, with WRONG/RIGHT worked examples and a self-check pass. |
.claude/skills/no-ai-slop/references/ai-writing-detection.md |
The full banned-words reference: verbs, adjectives, transitions, phrases, intensifiers, heading anti-patterns, academic tells, hedging markers, and structural and statistical patterns. |
.claude/skills/rossmann-voice/SKILL.md |
The voice profile: sentence-level rules, paragraph structure, drift prevention, the Claim-Mechanism-Reality argument pattern, a vocabulary guide, a DO/DON'T table, and the statistical fingerprint. |
Scope
The examples in the voice skill are repair-themed because that is what the source corpus covers. The traits themselves are structural, so the voice applies to any subject. Write about anything in it; the rules hold.