Explicit Checker Skill for Claude

Your Task

Path to scan: $ARGUMENTS

• Scan all lyrics for explicit words
• Report findings with word counts per track
• Flag mismatches (explicit content but flag says No, or vice versa)
• Provide summary suitable for distributor submission

Explicit Content Checker

You scan lyrics for explicit content to ensure proper flagging before release.

Explicit Words (Require Explicit = Yes)

These words and variations require the explicit flag:

| Category | Words |

|----------|-------|

| F-word | fuck, fucking, fucked, fucker, motherfuck, motherfucker |

| S-word | shit, shitting, shitty, bullshit |

| B-word | bitch, bitches |

| C-words | cunt, cock, cocks |

| D-word | dick, dicks |

| P-word | pussy, pussies |

| A-word | asshole, assholes |

| Slurs | whore, slut, n-word, f-word (slur) |

| Profanity | goddamn, goddammit |

Clean Words (No Explicit Flag Needed)

These are acceptable without explicit flag:

• damn, hell, crap, ass, bastard, piss

Note: "damn" alone is clean, but "goddamn" is explicit.

Override Support

The MCP check_explicit_content tool automatically loads and merges user overrides from {overrides}/explicit-words.md. No manual config read or merge logic needed — pass lyrics text and get results with overrides applied.

Override File Format

{overrides}/explicit-words.md:

# Custom Explicit Words

## Additional Explicit Words
- slang-term
- regional-profanity
- artist-specific-explicit

## Not Explicit (Override Base)
- hell (context: historical/literary)
- damn (context: emphasis)

Workflow

For Album Path

• Call list_tracks(album_slug) — get all tracks with metadata
• For each track:
• Call extract_section(album_slug, track_slug, "lyrics") — get lyrics text
• Call check_explicit_content(lyrics_text) — returns matches with line numbers (overrides auto-merged)
• Get Explicit flag from track metadata
• Compare flag vs. content
• Generate report

For Single Track

• Call extract_section(album_slug, track_slug, "lyrics") — get lyrics text
• Call check_explicit_content(lyrics_text) — scan for explicit words
• Get Explicit flag from track metadata via get_track(album_slug, track_slug)
• Report findings

Output Format

EXPLICIT CONTENT SCAN
Album: [Album Name]
Date: [Scan Date]

TRACK RESULTS:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Track 01: [Title]
  Flag: No
  Content: Clean
  Status: ✓ OK

Track 02: [Title]
  Flag: Yes
  Content: fuck (3), shit (2), bitch (1)
  Status: ✓ OK (flag matches content)

Track 03: [Title]
  Flag: No
  Content: fuck (1)
  Status: ⚠️ MISMATCH - Contains explicit content but flag is No

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

SUMMARY:
  Total tracks: 10
  Clean tracks: 7
  Explicit tracks: 3
  Mismatches: 1

ALBUM EXPLICIT FLAG: Yes (any track explicit = album explicit)

ACTION REQUIRED:
  - Track 03: Set Explicit flag to Yes

Mismatch Detection

Flag Says No, Content Is Explicit

⚠️ MISMATCH: Track contains explicit content but Explicit flag is "No"
ACTION: Set Explicit: Yes in track file

Flag Says Yes, Content Is Clean

ℹ️ NOTE: Track flagged explicit but no explicit words found
This is OK - artist may want explicit flag for themes/context
No action required (conservative flagging is fine)

Distributor Requirements

Most distributors (DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby) require:

• Track-level flags: Each track marked explicit or clean
• Album-level flag: If ANY track is explicit, album is explicit
• Consistent metadata: Flag must match actual content

Consequences of wrong flags:

• Explicit content marked clean → Potential removal from platforms, account issues
• Clean content marked explicit → Reduced reach (filtered from some playlists) but no penalty

Rule: When in doubt, mark explicit. Under-flagging is worse than over-flagging.

Integration

This skill is called during:

• Ready to Generate Checkpoint - Before Suno generation
• Album Completion Checklist - Before release
• Manual review - Anytime with /explicit-checker [path]

Example Invocations

/explicit-checker artists/[artist]/albums/rock/dark-tide/
/explicit-checker artists/[artist]/albums/rock/dark-tide/tracks/01-the-tank.md

Remember

• Case-insensitive matching (Fuck = fuck = FUCK)
• Check variations (fucking, fucked, fucker)
• Phonetic spellings count (fuk, sh1t if intentional)
• Context matters less than presence - if the word is there, flag it
• Album is explicit if ANY track is explicit
• Override additions - Add artist/genre-specific explicit words
• Override removals - Remove words for specific contexts (historical, literary)