Distill a controlled-English writing standard into an LLM agent skill
Instead of banning AI-tell words one at a time, give the model a complete writing system — a distilled version of ASD-STE100, the 1986 aerospace Simplified Technical English standard — so slop dies by design: one word per meaning kills synonym rotation, hard sentence caps kill run-ons, the 900-word approved dictionary kills marketing adjectives.
From Ege Vusal Chelebi — The cure for AI slop is a 1986 aircraft manual at 01:40
Problem: Banned-word lists are whack-a-mole: banning em dashes just produces slop without em dashes. The model defaults to the average of the internet because it was never given a writing system it can check itself against.
For: Developers and technical writers who ship AI-generated documentation, pull request descriptions, error messages and agent output
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Examples
- Boeing's Simplified English checker with a 350-rule parser, shipping since about 1990 — machine-checked writing is a solved, battle-tested category