diff --git a/garak/detectors/base.py b/garak/detectors/base.py
index dc3d335c7..c14b44a71 100644
--- a/garak/detectors/base.py
+++ b/garak/detectors/base.py
@@ -25,17 +25,15 @@ class Detector(Configurable):
     active = True
     tags = []  # list of taxonomy categories per the MISP format
 
-    DEFAULT_PARAMS = {
-        "skip": False,
-    }
-
     # support mainstream any-to-any large models
     # legal element for str list `modality['in']`: 'text', 'image', 'audio', 'video', '3d'
     # refer to Table 1 in https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13601
     # we focus on LLM output for detectors
     modality: dict = {"out": {"text"}}
 
-    DEFAULT_PARAMS = {}
+    DEFAULT_PARAMS = {
+        "skip": False,
+    }
 
     def _set_description(self):
         if "description" not in dir(self):