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slop-chop

AI writing leaves fingerprints.

Chop the slop. Paste in text and get back something that reads like a person wrote it.

Try it without installing anything: slop-chop.com runs the same engine in your browser.

AI writing has patterns. It loves em-dashes, drops a semicolon into every other sentence, reaches for words like comprehensive and leverage, and clears its throat with openers like "In summary" or "Giving it to you honestly."

slop-chop removes those patterns in a single pass. You can also hand it your own list of things to cut, so the result reads like you instead of a chatbot.

Why

Cleaning this up by hand is tedious. Asking a model to "stop using em-dashes" works for about three sentences before it forgets. slop-chop applies the same cleanup rules every time.

How it works

There are two passes, and you can run either one on its own.

The first is a rules pass. It is fast and deterministic. It swaps characters, drops words you have flagged, rewrites stock phrases and words, runs your own patterns, fixes spelling to one dialect, and tidies the punctuation, with no model, no cost, and the same output on every run. It knows markdown, so fenced code blocks and inline backtick spans come through untouched.

The second is an optional rewrite pass that hands the text to a model for the things rules cannot manage, like reworking a sentence so it no longer needs a semicolon, or nudging the writing toward a voice you picked.

Install

Homebrew:

brew install dcadolph/tap/slop-chop

With Go:

go install github.com/dcadolph/slop-chop@latest

Or clone and use the Makefile:

git clone git@github.com:dcadolph/slop-chop.git
cd slop-chop
make install     # build and install into $(go env GOPATH)/bin, version stamped
make uninstall   # remove it again

Run make with no target for the full list (build, test, cover, lint, fmt, tidy, clean).

Everywhere else

The same engine runs on many surfaces. All local and free unless noted.

Usage

# Print the cleaned text to stdout. Your file is not changed.
slop-chop fix notes.md

# Clean the file in place, like gofmt -w.
slop-chop fix -w notes.md

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.