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finish-feature

Finish a feature — run verification, create PR, retain learnings, and hand off cleanup to the terminal.

51

Quality

55%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

77%

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

This is a strong, well-structured workflow skill with excellent actionability and clear validation checkpoints throughout. The multi-step process is well-sequenced with explicit gates (check failures halt progress, user approval before commits, diff self-test before shipping). Minor weaknesses include some redundancy between inline constraints and the 'Important' section, and slightly verbose explanations of terminal behavior differences.

Suggestions

Remove the repeated constraints in the 'Important' section that are already stated inline (e.g., 'If checks fail, stop' is already in step 2), or consolidate them into one location only.

Trim the preamble's terminal title explanation — Claude doesn't need the rationale about Claude Desktop vs CLI differences; a single conditional command suffices.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Generally efficient but has some unnecessary verbosity — the preamble section explaining Claude Desktop vs CLI terminal behavior is somewhat over-explained, and some bash commands include comments that Claude would understand without. The 'Important' section at the end partially repeats constraints already stated inline.

2 / 3

Actionability

Highly actionable with specific, executable bash commands at every step, concrete git/gh CLI invocations, clear commit message format guidance, and a specific PR body template. The fallback commands when devflow is unavailable are a nice touch.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Excellent multi-step workflow with clear sequencing, explicit validation checkpoints (step 2 with hard stop on failure), a self-test/review gate (step 3), user approval before committing (step 4), and a structured summary template at the end. The feedback loop for failing checks is explicit: stop and help fix.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is well-structured with clear sections and numbered steps, but it's a moderately long monolithic file with no references to supporting documents. The summary template and some of the detailed bash snippets could potentially be split out, though for a single skill file without bundle this is acceptable.

2 / 3

Total

10

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12

Passed

Description

32%

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 provides a rough workflow outline but lacks specificity in its actions and omits explicit trigger guidance for when Claude should select this skill. The terms used are moderately relevant but miss common user phrasings, and several actions ('retain learnings', 'hand off cleanup to the terminal') are ambiguous.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with trigger terms like 'finish feature', 'done coding', 'ready to submit PR', 'wrap up work', 'create pull request'.

Clarify vague actions: specify what 'verification' means (e.g., run tests, linting), what 'retain learnings' entails (e.g., update documentation, save notes), and what 'hand off cleanup to the terminal' means.

Include natural keyword variations users might say, such as 'pull request', 'submit changes', 'ship feature', 'merge branch'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names several actions (run verification, create PR, retain learnings, hand off cleanup) but they remain somewhat vague — e.g., what kind of verification? What learnings? 'Hand off cleanup to the terminal' is unclear.

2 / 3

Completeness

Describes what the skill does at a high level but has no explicit 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, which per the rubric should cap completeness at 2, and the 'what' itself is vague enough to push this to a 1.

1 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes some relevant terms like 'PR', 'feature', and 'verification', but misses common natural phrases users might say such as 'pull request', 'submit code', 'finish work', 'merge', 'code review', or 'done with feature'.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The combination of finishing a feature, creating a PR, and retaining learnings is somewhat distinctive, but terms like 'run verification' and 'create PR' could overlap with CI/CD skills, PR creation skills, or testing skills.

2 / 3

Total

7

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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.

Repository
AndreJorgeLopes/devflow
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