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obsidian-thesis-tracker

Track emerging theses across vault notes and auto-generate draft reports when evidence accumulates. Use when checking thesis status, or auto-triggered by weekly lint. Triggers: "what theses are forming", "thesis status", "check for emerging patterns".

Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

68%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The body is a well-organized, mostly executable overview that correctly delegates implementation to the bundled script. Its main weaknesses are the absence of validation/verification steps for the batch analysis-and-report pipeline and the leftover template placeholder heading.

Suggestions

Add validation checkpoints around the batch workflow: check that Research/connections.json exists and is well-formed before running, and verify theses.json was updated (and the report generated) after --auto-report, with guidance on what to do on failure.

Replace the hardcoded personal vault path 'C:\Users\nuno_\Documents\Obsidian Vault' with a configurable parameter or environment variable so the commands are executable on other machines.

Fix the 'Step N: Reflection' heading — it is an unfilled template placeholder — and either fill in the actual step context or drop the section if reflection is not part of this skill's run.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is efficient with concrete commands and no concept over-explanation, but the opening paragraph repeats the frontmatter description verbatim and the closing line "The reflection skill will analyze the run and produce improvement recommendations" explains something already implied — minor trims keep it below the lean anchor 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Usage gives copy-paste commands ("python scripts/tracker.py --status", "--auto-report") whose flags exist in the bundled script, plus concrete thresholds ("5+ supporting connections", "2+ contradicting connections"); gaps include the hardcoded personal vault path "C:\Users\nuno_\Documents\Obsidian Vault" and no sample connections.json/theses.json payloads.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The six numbered steps give a clear sequence, but the pipeline is a batch operation (bulk grouping of connections plus auto-generating reports and writing theses.json) with no validation checkpoints — no guidance for missing/corrupt connections.json or confirming a report was actually generated — which caps it at anchor 3 per the batch-operation rule.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Good structure: the 784-line implementation lives appropriately in scripts/tracker.py (a real, one-level-deep reference) while SKILL.md stays an overview; the unfilled "Step N: Reflection" placeholder heading and the borderline 51-line length are minor organization gaps that keep it below anchor 5.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Description

78%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A strong description: it states concrete capabilities, includes an explicit 'Use when' clause with natural trigger phrases, and occupies a distinct niche. Its only weakness is that the capability list stops at two actions, leaving the detection logic unmentioned.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Track emerging theses across vault notes and auto-generate draft reports" names the domain and two concrete actions, but omits the clustering, contradiction-checking, and threshold mechanics — matching the '1-2 concrete actions, not comprehensive' anchor rather than the 'several specific actions' anchor above.

3 / 5

Completeness

It clearly answers both questions: the "what" ("Track emerging theses... and auto-generate draft reports") and an explicit "Use when checking thesis status, or auto-triggered by weekly lint" clause with concrete trigger phrases, matching the anchor-5 example pattern.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user phrases like "thesis status" and "what theses are forming" are present and relevant, but common synonyms such as "emerging theses", "synthesis", or "connections" are missing, so it falls short of comprehensive anchor-5 coverage.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Obsidian thesis-tracking niche with dedicated triggers ("thesis status") is mostly distinct, but "check for emerging patterns" is broad enough to overlap with connection-detector or general pattern-finding skills — minor overlap risk, matching anchor 4 rather than the minimal-conflict anchor 5.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

0xRabbidfly/Eric-Cartman

Path

.github/skills/obsidian-thesis-tracker/SKILL.md

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