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pantheon-ai/cfn-template-compare

Compares deployed CloudFormation templates with locally synthesized CDK templates to detect drift, validate changes, and ensure consistency before deployment. Use when the user wants to compare CDK output with a deployed stack, check for infrastructure drift, run a pre-deployment validation, audit IAM or security changes, investigate a failing deployment, or perform a 'cdk diff'-style review. Triggered by phrases like 'compare templates', 'check for drift', 'cfn drift', 'stack comparison', 'infrastructure drift detection', 'safe to deploy', or 'what changed in my CDK stack'.

72

Quality

90%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

Overview
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Quality

Content

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable with executable commands, clear sequencing, and validation checkpoints for a risky pre-deployment workflow. Its main weaknesses are some Quick-Start/Expected-Workflow redundancy and a References section pointing to bundle files that are not actually present.

Suggestions

Provide the missing bundle files (scripts/compare-cfn-templates.sh and references/compare-cfn-templates.md) or remove the dangling References entries, so progressive-disclosure navigation resolves.

De-duplicate the risk categorization that appears both in Step 4's table and the 'Risk Assessment Strategy' section to tighten the token budget.

Consider trimming the Quick Start so it points into the Expected Workflow rather than restating the same retrieval/compare commands, reducing conciseness redundancy.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense and mostly efficient with no over-explanation of CloudFormation/CDK concepts, but Quick Start reprises the later Expected Workflow and the risk-categorization table appears twice (Step 4 and Risk Assessment Strategy), so it could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

Fully executable aws/jq/diff/comm commands with exact --query/--output flags, a copy-paste report heredoc, and a concrete resource-key diff pattern — no pseudocode.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Five clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation checkpoints ('jq '.' deployed.json >/dev/null' JSON validation before comparison, get-caller-identity credential check), an error-recovery table, and feedback guidance for a batch/risky approval operation.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well-organized and references are one-level-deep and clearly signaled, but the referenced bundle files (scripts/compare-cfn-templates.sh, references/compare-cfn-templates.md) do not exist in the bundle, so the navigation leads nowhere.

2 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is third-person, concise, and strongly written: it names concrete capabilities, provides an explicit 'Use when' clause, and lists natural trigger phrases a user would actually say. It clearly occupies a distinct niche with low conflict risk.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'detect drift, validate changes, and ensure consistency', 'audit IAM or security changes', 'investigate a failing deployment', "perform a 'cdk diff'-style review" — rather than vague domain-naming.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (compare deployed CFN templates with synthesized CDK templates) and when (a 'Use when the user wants to...' clause enumerating six scenarios), with explicit triggers present.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural-term coverage: "Triggered by phrases like 'compare templates', 'check for drift', 'cfn drift', 'stack comparison', 'infrastructure drift detection', 'safe to deploy', or 'what changed in my CDK stack'" plus 'cdk diff' — terms a user would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche — comparing deployed CloudFormation against locally synthesized CDK output — with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 2 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Reviewed

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