Loop EngineeringAI Slop Detector
A single, focused Claude Code skill that audits any web UI codebase for 'AI design slop' — the generic, default-y patterns that make a site look machine-generated.
Download the Pack(.zip, 21 KB)What It Catches
The detector combines a runnable regex scanner with a judgment-based pattern library, because half of slop is only visible to taste, not to grep.
- Purple/indigo gradient heroes and gradient-clipped text
- Glassmorphism, neon-on-dark accents, the Inter-everywhere default
- Card-on-everything with uniform radius and shadows
- Dead-centered single-column layouts and emoji in headings
- Marketing-cliché copy: 'Supercharge', 'all-in-one', 'Scale without limits'
- The 'anti-slop slop': editorial/luxury costumes — fabricated heritage ('Est. 1931'), defaulted Didone serifs, film grain, portentous purple prose
How It Works
scan.py sweeps your React/Next/Vue/Svelte + Tailwind code for mechanical signatures and weights them by severity. The patterns reference then guides the judgment pass: constellation-based calls where one signal is fine but five together are a verdict. Evals are included.
Note: A Newer Version Exists
This is the original release. The Astryx Design Skills pack ships an expanded v2 of this same detector (adds the dark dev-tool variant, the 'tasteful-middle' wave, bento grids, em-dash cadence) plus the Astryx Max design skill. Grab that pack if you want the full toolkit — this one if you want the lean, single-skill version.
How to Install
- 1Download and unzip the pack.
- 2Copy ai-slop-detector/ into your project's .claude/skills/ directory — or ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects.
- 3Ask your agent to 'audit this UI for AI slop' — or run scripts/scan.py directly for the mechanical pass.
Pairs With
Astryx Design Skills
The expanded v2 detector plus the Astryx Max design-quality skill.
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Four autonomous-loop packages: learning, critique, verification, process improvement.
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Seven hands-on guides for putting a self-improving agent to work.
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