Deslop the Copy

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Sep 16, 2026 · 3:53 AM UTC
• Version: 1.1.0

Overview

This is a writing-editing skill with clear, local instructions and no evidence of hidden access, persistence, data collection, or unsafe execution.

Before installing, understand that this skill will shape rewritten text aggressively around its style rules, especially its zero-em-dash rule. From a security standpoint, the reviewed artifacts are local, disclosed, and proportionate to a writing assistant skill.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
• Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution: Fetches external code whose behavior can change after review
• Embedded Malicious Code: Ships malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
• Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation: Obtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Rogue Agent: Self-Modification, Session Persistence
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (2)

Session Persistence

Medium

• Category: Rogue Agent
• Confidence: 60% confidence

Finding

Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Content

Scanner excerpt · README.md (reported line 11)May include surrounding context.

md

Wikipedia's [WikiProject AI Cleanup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup) maintains a detailed guide called [Signs of AI writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing), cataloging patterns observed across thousands of AI-generated texts. NPR, TechCrunch, and FlowingData have all covered it as the best reference for spotting machine-written prose.

Existing tools use these patterns to detect and strip AI tells from text: banned phrases, structural cliches, and sentence-level habits. Detection and removal are useful, but an aggressive rewrite can erase the person along with the slop.

deslop-the-copy preserves the writer's vocabulary, cadence, bluntness, humor, uncertainty, digressions, and formality. It makes the minimum effective edit, leaves strong human sentences alone, and never invents facts or opinions to sound more alive.

Skill Enumeration

Medium

• Category: Agent Snooping
• Confidence: 80% confidence

Finding

Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.

Content

Scanner excerpt · README.md (reported line 26)May include surrounding context.

md

**Or copy manually:**

Copy `SKILL.md` into `~/.claude/skills/deslop-the-copy/SKILL.md`.

## Usage

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.