# Deslop

> Run a final review-readiness pass for rule conformance, type safety, and overengineering.

- Skill: `edmundmiller/deslop` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add edmundmiller/deslop`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/edmundmiller/deslop/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: edmundmiller (https://skillmd.com/u/edmundmiller)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/edmundmiller/deslop

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# Deslop

Run this only after the change is functionally correct and before `commit`.
PR text should describe already-deslopped code.

## Goals

- Keep the smallest clear diff that still solves the task.
- Run three focused review vectors instead of one subjective final pass.
- Preserve behavior while improving clarity, type safety, and rule alignment.

## Required review vectors

Cover all three vectors. If the user authorized delegation and the runtime supports it, give three parallel reviewers the same context bundle. Otherwise run the vectors sequentially.

1. **Rules and docs conformance**
   - Check `AGENTS.md`, nested `AGENTS.md`, design docs, and core beliefs.
   - Flag drift from documented patterns or ownership boundaries.
2. **Type safety and source of truth**
   - Preserve canonical types and inference flow.
   - Flag casts, duplicated/redefined types, or unnecessary widening.
   - Prefer compile-time guarantees inside typed internal code.
   - Validate only at untrusted boundaries; do not re-validate trusted internal values.
3. **Overengineering and simplification**
   - Remove unnecessary code, wrappers, abstractions, factories, or indirection.
   - Prefer direct, local solutions when equivalent.

## Required context bundle

Read the paths that exist and are relevant; do not invent missing project conventions:

- repo root `AGENTS.md`
- nested `AGENTS.md` for changed areas
- `docs/index.md`
- `docs/PLANS.md`
- `docs/design-docs/index.md`
- `docs/design-docs/core-beliefs.md`
- directly relevant design docs
- active exec plan for this work (if any)
- changed files plus nearby context

If working on an ExecPlan:

- inspect `docs/exec-plans/active/`
- if one clearly matches, tell reviewers to study it carefully before reviewing

## Review protocol

1. Read the full context bundle yourself first.
2. If delegation is authorized and available, launch three reviewers in parallel; otherwise perform each vector locally.
3. Give each delegated reviewer:
   - same context bundle
   - one assigned review vector
   - instruction to return findings first, ordered by severity, with file refs
4. While agents run, start with:
   - `pnpm -w lint:slop:delta`
5. Synthesize under these exact headings:
   - `How did we do?`
   - `Feedback to keep`
   - `Feedback to ignore`
   - `Plan of attack`
6. Use balanced synthesis over any single reviewer’s extreme take.

## Auto-apply feedback (unattended flows)

Apply clear, in-scope fixes before commit, prioritizing:

- type drift, casts, duplicate type definitions
- documented boundary/design-belief violations
- dead helpers/code/debug leftovers/placeholders
- removable local indirection

Skip speculative, conflicting, or scope-expanding suggestions; note briefly in synthesis/workpad.

## Execution steps

1. Gather context bundle.
2. Run the three review vectors, using parallel reviewers only when authorized and available.
3. Run `pnpm -w lint:slop:delta` when the command exists, plus narrow local checks.
4. Synthesize findings.
5. Apply worthwhile in-scope feedback.
6. Re-run the narrowest affected validation.
7. Update workpad/commit/PR text to describe final post-deslop state.

## Stop rules

- No refactors unrelated to the ticket.
- No churn outside changed area for style only.
- Leave subjective/unclear “improvements” alone.
- Do not blindly apply every suggestion.