Coherent doesn't mean it's correct.
Saying it's completed doesn't always mean it's been checked.
Confidence doesn't mean it has provenance.
It looks like it works — but does it have the right effect?
slopstopper is a set of tools for checking what generative systems produce. Each works on its own; together they work as one system.
/plugin marketplace add slopstopper/marketplace
Slop used to be obvious. It has not disappeared, it just got better at disguising itself. You can no longer tell just by looking at something what parts have been checked and what parts got filled in with an articulate guess. It all reads the same regardless.
Now with generative tools anything can look coherent, polished and confident while remaining completely untethered to reality.
One tool for each.
| tool | stops | how | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / honesty | plumb-line | a guess used as if it were measured | A mock value ends up in a dashboard, then a decision, and nothing along the way marks it as a guess. plumb-line labels each value with where it came from and keeps the label attached through every derivation, and its review-time checks catch the places where that already went wrong. |
| 02 / economics | tokenomics | the wrong model doing the work | An expensive model running work a cheap one could do, or a cheap one running work it can't and having to redo it. tokenomics routes work to the cheapest tier that can actually do it, in lanes you name, and a living playbook carries what you worked out into the next session. |
| 03 / state | recursive-spine | a record that drifts from reality | Work tracked in a document drifts almost immediately, and a "later" that isn't written down doesn't happen. recursive-spine keeps work state in GitHub issues and milestones, where it stays queryable, and ages deferrals so they surface before they rot. |
Put tokenomics and recursive-spine together and the routing is logged in issues and milestones instead of sitting in a playbook. The shared vocabulary is pinned in the marketplace: one owner per term.
Every tool is run on itself. None of these ask of you a standard they don't meet. Each is turned on its own repository and has to survive the result.
- ↺ plumb-line — its auditor runs on its own code before every release, and the dogfood report keeps what it finds.
- ↺ tokenomics — it runs on its own build: a dogfooded playbook and a spend ledger that makes its savings claims checkable.
- ↺ recursive-spine — its issues and milestones existed before its first commit, and its deferrals age on its own digest.
If we cannot follow a rule while building the tool that asks you to follow it, the rule has failed its own test and we rewrite it. The record of where it broke stays, because editing it afterwards would be the failure this is meant to catch.
From inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add slopstopper/marketplace
/plugin install plumb-line@slopstopper
/plugin install tokenomics@slopstopper
/plugin install recursive-spine@slopstopper
Prefer to read first? Start with the plumb-line page.
None of this stops you from shipping slop. It just makes it visible, attributable, and slightly embarrassing.
