This skill should be used when the user says "review plan", "validate plan", "check plan", "sanity check the plan", "verify plan", "review my plan", "audit plan", "is my plan ready", or wants to validate a structured project plan for completeness, correctness, and pattern compliance before execution. Checks structural completeness, document quality, dependency graph consistency, codebase reference validity, and pattern compliance. Offers to fix found issues interactively and can proceed directly to arn-code-taskify when the plan passes.
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Discovery
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 a strong skill description that excels across all dimensions. It provides an extensive list of natural trigger phrases, clearly describes what the skill does with specific concrete actions, and explicitly states when it should be used. The description is well-structured, uses third person voice appropriately, and occupies a clear niche that would be easily distinguishable from other skills.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: checks structural completeness, document quality, dependency graph consistency, codebase reference validity, pattern compliance, offers to fix issues interactively, and can proceed to arn-code-taskify. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (checks structural completeness, dependency graphs, codebase references, pattern compliance, offers fixes) and 'when' (explicit list of trigger phrases plus the general condition of wanting to validate a project plan before execution). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Excellent coverage of natural trigger phrases users would say: 'review plan', 'validate plan', 'check plan', 'sanity check the plan', 'verify plan', 'audit plan', 'is my plan ready'. These are highly natural and varied. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly distinctive with a clear niche: validating structured project plans before execution. The specific trigger phrases ('review plan', 'sanity check the plan') and domain-specific checks (dependency graph consistency, codebase reference validity) make it unlikely to conflict with other skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
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 well-structured, highly actionable skill for a complex multi-step plan review workflow. Its greatest strengths are the clear step sequencing with validation checkpoints, explicit error handling, and concrete examples of findings and fixes. The main weakness is that the document is quite long and could benefit from splitting detailed reference content (like the full report format and remediation dialogue flows) into separate files for better progressive disclosure.
Suggestions
Consider moving the detailed remediation options (Step 6) and report JSON structure (Step 7) into separate reference files to reduce the main skill's length and improve progressive disclosure.
Trim the repeated fix suggestion examples across Steps 2-4 to 1-2 per step — Claude can generalize the pattern from fewer examples.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is fairly long but most content is necessary for the complex multi-step workflow. However, there's some verbosity in repeated example suggestions across steps (3-4 examples per step when 1-2 would suffice) and some explanatory text that could be tightened. The remediation options section is particularly verbose with full dialogue scripts. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides highly concrete, specific guidance throughout: exact file paths to read, specific check IDs to use, precise report format with template, exact directory structures, specific user prompts to present, and detailed examples of actionable fix suggestions. Every step has clear instructions on what to do and what output to produce. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints: Step 1 validates config exists before proceeding, Step 2 classifies findings by severity, Step 5 reports before remediation, Step 6 includes re-validation after fixes ('Re-run only the checks that had findings to verify the fixes resolved them'), and Step 7 gates next steps on error status. The feedback loop for remediation is explicit and well-structured. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill references external files appropriately (validation-checks.md, pattern docs, report templates) but all 7 steps with full detail are inline in a single large document. The validation checks reference is good progressive disclosure, but the remediation logic, report format, and pattern compliance details could benefit from being split into separate reference files. No bundle files were provided to verify referenced paths exist. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |
Validation
90%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 10 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 10 / 11 Passed | |
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