Fixing AI Slop with a Skill in Gemini CLI

We all recognize AI writing when we see it. As language models get used for everything, their specific tics are everywhere. People call this “AI slop”. The grammar is fine, but the text is boring, repetitive, and lacks any real voice.

A site called tropes.fyi tracks these patterns. It lists the exact words and structures that give AI away. You’ll see callouts for overused adverbs like “deeply” and “arguably,” the dreaded “delve” family, and structural crutches like “It’s not X, it’s Y.”

I wanted a way to automatically fix these issues in my own generated text. So, I built a deslopify skill for Gemini CLI.

How I built it

Gemini CLI has a built-in skill-creator that handles the boilerplate. I just asked the CLI to create a new skill, and it generated the folder structure and a SKILL.md file. It took as reference the Markdown file shared by tropes.fyi with all the typical elements of AI sloppiness.

The SKILL.md file tells the agent how to behave. I wrote a short workflow instructing the agent to read the user’s text, cross-reference it with the anti-patterns from tropes.fyi, and rewrite it. The goal is just to make the text sound like a normal person wrote it.

Here’s what the skill generated by Gemini CLI looks like:

deslopify generated skill

The structure of the skill is just this SKILL.md file, and a references/ directory containing the style guide:

deslopify/
├── SKILL.md
└── references/
      └── style_guide.md

I didn’t even have to modify the generated SKILL.md as it did the job perfectly, and was clear out of the box.

Trying it out

The code is up on GitHub: glaforge/deslopify.

You can install it directly from the repo in Gemini CLI:

gemini skills install https://github.com/glaforge/deslopify

Installing the deslopify skill within Gemini CLI

Then reload your interactive session:

/skills reload

Once it’s loaded, you can ask Gemini CLI (or your preferred agent tool) to clean up your text:

• "Deslopify this article: [URL]"
• "Naturalize this draft: [paste text]"
• "Remove the AI slop from my README.md file."

The agent will strip out the pompous phrasing and weird structural tics, leaving you with something far more readable.