unslop-reasoning

Purpose

The regular unslop skill targets prose. Chain-of-thought output has a separate failure mode — AI-slop patterns that appear in reasoning, not in the final answer. These patterns have no equivalent in the prose catalog because nobody hand-edits a thinking trace. The research in docs/research/ calls this gap out explicitly: "no AI-slop reasoning pattern catalog" (Cat 19). This skill fills it.

Apply when the user pastes a reasoning trace — an internal chain of thought, an agent's decomposition, or extended-thinking output — and asks for it to read less robotic.

Signals of reasoning slop

Six canonical patterns, each with an example and a tighter rewrite.