Louis Rossmann
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no-ai-slop-writing-rules
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.