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An 80k-Character Anti-Slop Design Law: Drop Slop.md Into Your Agent

pols.dev ships a ~87KB Markdown rulebook naming AI UI tells and positive recipes. The site switches install commands by Claude / Codex / Cursor and more; you can also download the file for any agent.

July 15, 2026 · ~10 min · pols.dev + slop.md + demo video

When AI writes landing pages, pricing blocks, and hero sections, it often collides with the same defaults: purple gradients, glowing capsule buttons, icon tiles, fake macOS windows, Inter everywhere. Slop.md names these patterns and turns them into a long law you read before every design and check against when done. Install is simple: pick your agent, curl-append into its rules file, or download the md.

≈87kcharacters in one rules file (author says 80k+)
140+named anti-patterns and positive recipes
5 agentsinstall paths (Claude / Codex / Cursor / OpenCode / Amp)
01Backstory

First, the Impeccable piece on this site

We recently covered Impeccable: a frontend design skill for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and more. It ships 23 commands (/typeset, /critique, and the like), can run npx impeccable detect to block slop in PRs, and recognizes your project's tokens and components.

Impeccable and today's pols / Slop.md attack the same class of problem: generators' default bad habits when writing UI. They fork in form: