Slop Audit

Adapted from unslop by Damir Sokolovsky (@heydamir). This file is licensed CC BY 4.0, not under the kit's MIT license; see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. The full upstream skill (story video, hero image generation, effects) is at git clone https://github.com/heydamir/unslop.

Core RuleCopy Anchor Link

Fix the craft, keep the product. The features, the content and the order of sections stay. What changes is that every size, color, word and image becomes deliberate. Slop is usually addition, so the fix is usually subtraction plus one chosen thing. Never change a good screen just to make it different.

Signs: agent_docs/slop-signs.md. Values: agent_docs/tokens.md. Motion: agent_docs/motion.md.

StepsCopy Anchor Link

1. LookCopy Anchor Link

Render the screen and take screenshots (desktop and ~375px, plus dark if supported). If you can't render, say so and audit from the code; label every finding as inferred.

2. AuditCopy Anchor Link

Go through every group in slop-signs.md (surfaces and color, type, icons, spacing, copy, components, landing, visuals, motion, template look, kit additions). List each sign with where it lives: file:line or a screen region.

3. Decide how muchCopy Anchor Link

• Heavy slop: most groups have hits. Full run: a new direction from the product, then all nine passes.
• Light slop: mostly designed, a few signs. Polish mode: fix only what the audit found, take the direction from the existing brand, keep palette, type, layout and visual. Bigger ideas go into the report as suggestions.
• No slop: say so plainly. Suggest 2–3 refinements at most, with exact values, and apply them only if the user agrees.

4. Direction, then stopCopy Anchor Link

If DESIGN_MAP.md already has an agreed direction, confirm it in one line. Otherwise write the five lines (Product, Character, World, Moments, Signature; see /direction). Show the audit and the direction, and wait for the user unless they said "just do it".

5. Nine passes, in orderCopy Anchor Link

Finish each pass across the whole screen before starting the next.

1. Spacing: 4px grid; same thing, same size; space shows grouping; remove one-off values.
2. Color: one neutral ramp tinted by the world; three text roles; one accent used rarely; no hue gradients, glows, color washes or neon borders; hairline borders.
3. Icons: emoji → one line set (the project's, else lucide), one size and stroke, colored by text role.
4. Copy: plain statements; changes with a reference; short placeholders; no hype; no invented proof (ask instead).
5. Type: family from the character; 400/500 (600 at most); hierarchy from size and color; sentence case; tabular numbers.
6. Layout: the main thing gets the most space; vary the widths in card rows; heroes are asymmetric or text over the product; one primary action.
7. Details: concentric radii; quiet badges; focus rings; empty, loading and error states.
8. Visuals: the product itself, or one concrete object from the world. Never a nebula, an orb, or text baked into an image.
9. Motion: one ease-out curve; transform and opacity only; nothing ambient; reduced motion. (/motion-review for depth.)

Copy comes before type and layout because headline length decides size and placement. Visuals and motion come last because they should fit a screen that already works without them.

6. CheckCopy Anchor Link

Render again and compare with the audit list. Check the template look: does it now look like every cleaned-up screen? Run the competitor test against DESIGN_MAP.md → Competitors. Fix whatever is still on the list. Render at most three times.

7. ReportCopy Anchor Link

• Mode (heavy / light / none) and the direction used.
• Per pass: a few lines on what changed, with file:line.
• Suggestions you didn't apply (light mode), and anything left [PLACEHOLDER] or [NEEDS PROOF].

NeverCopy Anchor Link

• Remove features, sections or content to make a screen "cleaner".
• Replace a real brand color with your preferred accent.
• Claim contrast passes without measuring. Say estimated if you didn't measure.

Part of unslop by Damir Sokolovsky (@heydamir), CC BY 4.0. Keep this credit in copies and adaptations.