sloptrim

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A prose linter that scores text files written by a coding agent for patterns typical of AI writing and asks the agent to rewrite the flagged spans. It uses only the Python standard library and runs with no network and no model.

Adopt it when

You use Claude Code or Codex to draft documents and want an automatic check for stock AI phrasing before you read them.

Watch out

It has no release yet and works as an agent plugin, so it flags patterns rather than proving who wrote a text.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Command line

Built with

Python and JavaScript

How established

New: started 2 months ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: sloptrim → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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