# audit-ai-design-slop

Audits interfaces, mockups, and UI code for decorative clutter, generic AI clichés, and usability defects. It helps streamline products through removal instead of speculative redesigns.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1200 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/ui/audit-ai-design-slop/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/audit-ai-design-slop

## What it does

This skill inspects screenshots, rendered viewports, code tokens, and copy for repetitive design clichés. It flags decorative stacking like simultaneous glows, glass panels, noise, and floating shapes competing with real content. The audit also catches fake proof, broken responsive layouts, and low contrast without guessing whether artificial intelligence generated the asset.

The workflow relies on a removal-first rule: subtract before replacing. Findings are classified as either quality defects or slop patterns, ranked from P0 to P3, and capped at the five to eight most critical issues. Unless explicitly requested, the skill will not prescribe a new color palette, font system, or art direction.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill audit-ai-design-slop -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/audit-ai-design-slop/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/audit-ai-design-slop/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill audit-ai-design-slop -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/audit-ai-design-slop/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill audit-ai-design-slop -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/audit-ai-design-slop/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills audit-ai-design-slop
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/audit-ai-design-slop/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill audit-ai-design-slop -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/ui/audit-ai-design-slop
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/audit-ai-design-slop/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill audit-ai-design-slop -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/ui/audit-ai-design-slop/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- remove decorative stacking such as glows, glassmorphism, and borders
- identify invented proof, fake metrics, and placeholder testimonials
- catch contrast flaws, overflow issues, and missing focus states
- simplify repetitive card containers and redundant copy

## Example prompts
- Audit this checkout screenshot for AI design cliches and visual noise
- Run an audit-ai-design-slop review on `src/components/Hero.tsx`
- Identify redundant containers and unnecessary decorative layers in this mockup

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: audit-ai-design-slop
description: Audit websites, apps, screenshots, mockups, and design code for harmful AI-design clichés, generic generated defaults, and established UI defects. Use when the user wants evidence-backed design feedback, an anti-slop review, or a removal-first cleanup plan without a speculative redesign.
---

# Audit AI Design Slop

Run a diagnostic, evidence-backed audit. Identify the smallest set of removals or corrections that would improve the interface while preserving its existing direction.

## Boundaries

- Do not guess whether AI made the design.
- Do not assign a numeric slop score.
- Do not reject a visual technique in isolation. A gradient, serif, dark theme, glass effect, card, animation, or single-font system can be intentional.
- Do not prescribe a new font, palette, layout, design system, or art direction unless the user explicitly asks for one.
- Do not turn an audit into an implementation task.
- Mark anything outside the visible or provided evidence as unknown.

## Audit the Evidence

Inspect the artifact available in the request:

- screenshots and recordings
- rendered pages and relevant viewports
- interaction and state changes
- source code, tokens, assets, and copy
- console or runtime failures when they affect the experience

For every finding, cite a concrete location, component, behavior, or line of copy. Do not report a generic tendency without evidence in the artifact.

For a full-page or full-site review, read [../no-ai-design-slop/ARTICLE.md](../no-ai-design-slop/ARTICLE.md) and use only the catalog sections relevant to the inspected artifact. Do not turn every checklist match into a finding. Group symptoms by root cause and report the highest-impact evidence.

## Classify Findings

Use one of these classes:

- **Quality defect:** an established usability, accessibility, content, responsive, or runtime problem.
- **Slop pattern:** a repeated default, decorative layer, or generated-looking convention with no useful role.

## What to Flag

### Decorative stacking

Flag combinations of glow, gradient text, glass, borders, shadows, grids, particles, beams, noise, floating shapes, or browser chrome when multiple layers perform the same decorative job or compete with the content.

### Component and template repetition

Flag:

- card treatment applied to nearly every content block
- repeated icon-heading-description tiles with interchangeable content
- nested rounded containers that do not communicate hierarchy
- generic landing-page sequences unrelated to the product's buying or usage journey
- headings, labels, pills, or CTA blocks that restate nearby information

### Typography and copy clutter

Flag:

- duplicate text or unnecessary labels
- empty superlatives, vague category claims, and generated filler
- decorative type treatments that obscure hierarchy or readability
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