blog-strategy

Blog strategy development including topic cluster architecture with hub-and-spoke design, audience mapping, competitive landscape analysis, AI citation surface strategy across ChatGPT/Perplexity/AI Overviews, distribution channel planning (YouTube, Reddit, review platforms for AI-citation SEO), content scoring targets, measurement framework, and content differentiation through original research and first-hand experience. Use when user says "blog strategy", "content strategy", "blog positioning", "what should I blog about", "blog topics", "content pillars", "blog ideation".

Quality

92%

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Quality

Content

85%

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

The body is highly actionable with concrete templates, a well-sequenced 8-step workflow including validation gates, and good progressive disclosure via clearly signaled reference files. Its main weakness is conciseness, owing to repeated channel tables and some hedging prose.

Suggestions

Consolidate the duplicate YouTube/Reddit/review-platform/distribution tables that recur in Step 5.5 (Off-Site Presence) and Step 6 (Distribution Channel Strategy) into a single canonical table referenced once.

Tighten hedging prose such as 'Treat vendor-reported off-site citation percentages and channel multipliers as non-causal observations, not strategy targets' into a short directive (e.g. 'Treat vendor citation percentages as observations, not targets').

Consider moving the ASCII cluster diagram and full cluster-build-plan template into internal-linking.md, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview that links out.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the near-identical YouTube/Reddit/review-platform channel tables recur across Steps 5.5 and 6, and hedging prose like 'Treat vendor-reported off-site citation percentages and channel multipliers as non-causal observations' could be tightened. It is not level 3 because of this redundancy and padding.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready templates (cluster build plan table, audience-segment block, output strategy document), specific commands ('/blog analyze', target '80+'), and exact word-count and template guidance — matching the fully-actionable anchor for an instruction skill.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Eight numbered steps with clear sub-sequencing, validation gates ('Posts below 80 quality score should be revised before going live', 'validate source URLs before citing', 'validate it against official Google sources'), and a checklist-style 90-day roadmap — matching the clear-sequence-with-checkpoints anchor.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md acts as the overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references (research-quality.md, internal-linking.md, distribution-playbook.md, geo-optimization.md, content-templates.md) and a consolidated 'Reference Documents' list, matching the clear-overview-with-one-level-references anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 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 specific, complete, and uses natural trigger terms with an explicit 'Use when' clause in third-person voice. It clearly conveys both what the skill does and when to invoke it.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete capabilities — 'topic cluster architecture with hub-and-spoke design', 'audience mapping', 'competitive landscape analysis', 'AI citation surface strategy across ChatGPT/Perplexity/AI Overviews', 'content scoring targets' — matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (the capability list) and when (the 'Use when user says...' trigger clause), matching the highest anchor; it is not capped at 2 because explicit trigger guidance is present.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	The 'Use when user says "blog strategy", "content strategy", "blog positioning", "what should I blog about", "blog topics", "content pillars", "blog ideation"' clause gives strong coverage of natural phrases users would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The blog-strategy niche with distinct blog-specific triggers is clearly distinguishable from adjacent skills; not level 2 because the triggers (e.g. 'blog topics', 'content pillars') are niche-specific rather than broadly overlapping.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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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

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: AgriciDaniel/claude-blog
Path: brain/.raw/sources/claude-blog-skill/skills/blog-strategy/SKILL.md
Commit: aec971a

Reviewed: about 13 hours ago

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