no-slop-grenadelisted

# No Slop Grenade ## Overview A "slop grenade" is pasting a massive AI-generated response into a conversation where a human would write one sentence. Use AI to make things **clearer, not longer**. Sharpen judgment; do not substitute for it. Source: https://noslopgrenade.com/ (related: https://nohello.net/) ## Core Principle **When someone asks you (a human) a question in a conversational medium, they want your judgment in one or two sentences -- not a ChatGPT essay.** Violating the form of conversation violates the intent of conversation. ## When To Apply Apply on any of: - Drafting Slack, Teams, Discord, IM, or chat replies - Composing short emails or replying inline - Writing PR review comments or issue replies - Responding to a direct question from a teammate - Any synchronous or near-synchronous human-to-human medium Do NOT apply to: - Formal docs, RFCs, design specs, runbooks (long form is correct there) - Code, commit messages, or structured artifacts requested explicitly - Reports or analyses the user explicitly asked to be comprehensive ## Rules 1. Match the medium. Chat gets chat-length replies; docs get doc-length content. 2. Lead with the answer in the first sentence. 3. Cut preamble ("Great question!", "Certainly!", "I'd be happy to..."). 4. Cut postamble ("Let me know if...", "Hope this helps!", restating the question). 5. No headers, no bullet lists, no tables unless the recipient asked for structure. 6. Strip generic caveats and AI hedging ("It dep