story-deslop (AI-Flavor Remover for Fiction)
Diagnoses and strips AI writing tells from web-novel prose with minimal, function-preserving edits.
Content & WritingIntermediate★ 5,896⑂ 880AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 21, 2026
What it does
- Scans a draft and assigns an AI-flavor grade (light / medium / heavy) using six quantified metrics: banned-word density, consecutive parallel structures, psychological-telling ratio, dialogue-tag density, average sentences per paragraph, and repeated-description density.
- Cleans up through seven gates: banned-word replacement (A), formulaic sentence patterns (B), showing instead of telling emotions (C), rhythm variation (D), natural dialogue (E), removing summarizing/uplifting endings (F), and cutting explanatory or omniscient narrator intrusions (G).
- Enforces guardrails: never delete whole paragraphs, cap deletions at 15% / 25% / 35% by severity, and protect foreshadowing, hooks, character traits, and causal anchors — flag
[needs review]instead of cutting. - File mode runs bundled Node scripts (
check-ai-patterns.js,check-degeneration.js,normalize-punctuation.js) for pre-scan, degeneration checks, and deterministic punctuation cleanup. - Supports a project-root
.deslop-whitelistso proper nouns and worldbuilding terms aren't flagged.
Who it's for
- Web-novel and long-form fiction authors cleaning up LLM-assisted drafts
- Editors who want a repeatable checklist for spotting machine-written prose
- Users already on the oh-story-claudecode writing pipeline
Examples
- Paste a scene and say "this reads too AI" → you get an issue table (location, type, gate, original text, problem) plus a revised version.
- Run
/story-deslop chapters/03.md→ the skill pre-scans with the checker script, edits the file in place, then reports edit counts and character-count delta. - Say "just flag it, don't rewrite" → annotation-only mode: diagnosis report, no file writes.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/worldwonderer/oh-story-claudecode/HEAD/skills/story-deslop/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the skills/story-deslop folder from the GitHub repo worldwonderer/oh-story-claudecode into my ~/.claude/skills/story-deslop/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/worldwonderer/oh-story-claudecode.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r oh-story-claudecode/skills/story-deslop ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal and clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/worldwonderer/oh-story-claudecode.git - Create the skills folder if needed:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the whole skill directory (the scripts/ and references/ folders must come along):
cp -r oh-story-claudecode/skills/story-deslop ~/.claude/skills/ - Verify Node.js is installed so the checker scripts can run:
node -v - Restart Claude Code, then invoke it with
/story-deslop <file-path>or paste text and ask to remove the AI flavor. - (Optional) Add a
.deslop-whitelistfile at your project root, one exempt term per line, to prevent false positives on names and lore terms. - Note: the rules and banned-word lists are tuned for Chinese prose — expect to adapt them if you write in another language.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT