seo-sitemap

Analyze existing XML sitemaps or generate new ones with industry templates. Validates format, URLs, and structure. Use when user says "sitemap", "generate sitemap", "sitemap issues", or "XML sitemap".

Quality

96%

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Content

92%

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 tight, highly actionable reference with clear sequenced workflows and validation checkpoints. Its main gap is progressive disclosure: the skill is a single large file with no bundle files to offload detailed reference material.

Suggestions

Move the detailed extension-sitemap subtype rules (image/video/news) and the XML format examples into separate reference files under references/, leaving concise summaries with one-level-deep links in SKILL.md.

Add the referenced sitemap_discovery.py to scripts/ (or document where it lives) so the body's command examples resolve to real bundle artifacts.

Consider extracting the common-issues severity table and quality-signal checklists into a references/VALIDATION.md to slim the main body while keeping it linked.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is a dense, token-efficient reference of lists, tables, and thresholds with no padding about concepts Claude already knows; explanatory lines (e.g. lastmod semantics, deprecated tags) convey domain-specific SEO behavior that earns its place.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides executable commands ('claude-seo run sitemap_discovery.py <url> --json'), concrete XML templates, hard numeric limits (50,000 URLs / 50MB / 1,000 image or news entries), and a fix table — copy-paste ready guidance.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Both modes are clearly sequenced; Mode 2 lists numbered steps 1–7 with explicit validation checkpoints (30+ warning, 50+ hard stop quality gates) and an Error Handling section provides recovery feedback loops for the batch generation operation.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into sections, but the skill exceeds 50 lines and is monolithic — no bundle files exist in references/scripts/assets, and detailed content (extension-sitemap rules, format examples) that could be offloaded is inline; referenced paths like sitemap_discovery.py and ../seo-plan/assets/ point outside the bundle.	2 / 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 concise, third-person, and clearly states both capability and explicit trigger conditions. It is a strong example of a well-formed skill description.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Analyze existing XML sitemaps', 'generate new ones with industry templates', 'Validates format, URLs, and structure' — matching the anchor for listing several specific actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (analyze/generate/validate sitemaps) and when ('Use when user says ...'), with an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Provides natural trigger phrases users would say ('sitemap', 'generate sitemap', 'sitemap issues', 'XML sitemap'), giving good coverage of common variations.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (XML sitemaps) with distinct, domain-specific triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	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-seo
Path: skills/seo-sitemap/SKILL.md
Commit: 09d37c7

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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