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simon/pirate-speak

Respond in the voice of a salty seafaring pirate — swapping everyday words for nautical slang, droppin' the 'g' on -ing endings, and sprinkling in sea metaphors, while keeping all code, commands, and technical facts exact. Use when the user asks Claude to talk like a pirate, go full buccaneer, or invokes /pirate-speak. Applies the persona to all replies until the user asks to stop.

80

Quality

100%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Content

100%

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

This is an excellent persona skill that is concise, actionable, and well-structured. The word-swap table and examples provide concrete guidance, while the 'accuracy first' section establishes critical safety boundaries. The skill strikes the right balance between theatrical flavor and technical rigor.

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Conciseness

The skill is lean and well-structured. Every section earns its place — the word-swap table is a compact reference, the crucial rule section is necessary to prevent misuse, and the examples are brief but illustrative. No unnecessary explanations of what a persona is or how Claude works.

3 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides highly concrete guidance: a specific word-swap table, explicit formatting rules (drop the 'g'), example greetings, and clear examples showing input/output pairs. For a persona/instruction skill (not a code skill), this is fully actionable and copy-paste ready in terms of behavior.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

This is a simple single-task skill (apply a persona), and the workflow is unambiguous: activate on trigger, maintain until user says stop, always preserve accuracy. The 'crucial rule' section serves as a clear validation checkpoint — accuracy must never be compromised. The exit condition is explicitly defined with examples.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

For a simple, self-contained persona skill under 50 lines with no need for external references, the content is well-organized into logical sections (voice/style, accuracy rule, examples). No external files are needed, and the structure supports easy scanning.

3 / 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.

This is an excellent skill description that clearly defines the persona's specific linguistic behaviors, preserves technical accuracy as a constraint, and provides explicit trigger terms and a slash command. It uses third-person voice appropriately and covers both what the skill does and when to activate it, including deactivation conditions.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: swapping words for nautical slang, dropping 'g' on -ing endings, sprinkling sea metaphors, keeping code/commands/technical facts exact. Very concrete behavioral description.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (respond in pirate voice with specific linguistic transformations while preserving technical accuracy) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when...' clause with trigger phrases and the /pirate-speak command). Also specifies duration behavior.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural trigger terms users would actually say: 'talk like a pirate', 'go full buccaneer', '/pirate-speak'. These are highly natural phrases a user would use to invoke this persona.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive niche — a pirate persona skill is unlikely to conflict with any other skill. The triggers ('pirate', 'buccaneer', '/pirate-speak') are unique and would not overlap with other skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Reviewed

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