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paper-slop-screen
Screen an ML research paper (as reviewer, AC, or co-author) for evidence that it was produced by AI without a responsible human author — unsteered research (failed method pivoted into an "audit" paper, theoryslop, toy scale with grand claims, phantom experiments, text–table mismatches), unchecked artifacts (hallucinated references, chatbot residue, watermarks), and unpolished AI-led writing (em-dash floods, defensive writing, coined terms, performative honesty). Produces an evidence-cited grade on three axes — writing W0–W3, research steering R0–R3, ordinary quality Q — plus integrity flags an
Why this score
This repo hosts 2 skills, so its 154 stars are split between them (about 77 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 66/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit fc119a05d00a, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.scripts/ref_verify.py and 2 more
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md, scripts/ref_verify.py:348
Web addresses in its code:
- api.crossref.orgscripts/ref_verify.py:441
- arxiv.orgSKILL.md:37
- export.arxiv.orgscripts/ref_verify.py:433
- api.openalex.orgscripts/ref_verify.py:455
- api.semanticscholar.orgscripts/ref_verify.py:450
- dblp.orgscripts/ref_verify.py:465
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onepaper-slop-screen THUROI0787/absent-author · Skill | 66 | ★ 154 | ≈155 always | 28d ago |
| stop-slop hardikpandya/stop-slop · Skill Both about slop and text | 77 | ★ 18k | ≈32 always | 8mo ago |
| paper-write xstongxue/best-skills · Skill Both about paper | 68 | ★ 3.0k | ≈50 always | 2mo ago |
| code-slop AsyrafHussin/agent-skills · Skill Both about slop and defensive | 53 | ★ 90 | ≈121 always | 2mo ago |
| paper-verification fcakyon/phd-skills · Skill Both about paper and claim | 64 | ★ 424 | ≈22 always | 24d ago |
| break-ai-slop suyuan2022/suyuan-skill · Skill Both about slop | 68 | ★ 401 | ≈23 always | 16d ago |