What is notslop?

Notslop is a command-line tool and set of Claude Code skills (reusable AI assistant instructions) that solves a specific problem: AI models like Claude have a training data cutoff, meaning they don't know what's actually being discussed right now on social media. When you ask Claude to write a tweet or Reddit post on a current topic, it often invents examples or references trends that don't exist. Notslop fixes this by fetching real, recent social media content before Claude writes anything. When you ask Claude Code to write content on a topic, the relevant skill automatically runs a notslop command that pulls recent posts from Reddit, Hacker News, RSS blog feeds, and X (formerly Twitter). Those posts are then ranked for relevance using a service called ZeroEntropy (which uses AI embeddings, a way of measuring semantic similarity, to deduplicate and rank results). The top 10 most relevant posts are returned to Claude as context, and Claude's output then references real, current discussions. The package ships 19 skills covering content creation for Twitter/X (tweets, threads, long articles, bio rewrites), LinkedIn posts, Reddit posts and replies, blog posts, Show HN submissions, Product Hunt launches, README hero sections, personalized cold DMs, and content repurposing. Five research skills cover topic digests, trending topics, mention tracking, influential author discovery, and semantic similarity search. The tool is TypeScript-based, distributed as an npm package, and requires free API keys from ZeroEntropy (for reranking) and optionally Orthogonal (for X scraping).