tropes.md is a one-file blacklist of AI writing tells for your system prompt.
- tropes.md is a single Markdown file that catalogs common AI writing tells, meant to be pasted into an assistant’s system prompt so it avoids them.
- It’s basically a blacklist of habits like magic adverbs, canned transitions, rhetorical fakeouts, and over-structured “helpful” prose.
- The funny part is the premise: AI-assisted content that tries to keep other AI from sounding AI-assisted, which is either practical hygiene or an arms race, depending on your mood.
