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arn-spark-stress-interview

This skill should be used when the user says "stress interview", "synthetic interview", "user interview stress test", "interview my personas", "test with synthetic users", "persona interview", "simulate user interviews", "run user interviews", or wants to stress-test a product concept by conducting structured interviews with synthetic personas through three adversarial lenses (Pragmatist, Skeptic, Power User). Produces an interview report with per-persona findings, synthesized themes, and recommended concept updates.

72

Quality

88%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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 well-crafted, highly actionable skill that clearly orchestrates a complex multi-agent workflow with proper sequencing, error handling, and user interaction points. Its main weakness is verbosity — the repeated agent invocation boilerplate and some redundant sections (Agent Invocation Guide duplicating workflow content) inflate the token cost. The progressive disclosure is reasonable with references to external files, though the main body could be leaner by pushing more detail into those references.

Suggestions

Reduce repetition by defining the agent invocation pattern (model parameter sourcing, fallback convention) once at the top and referencing it, rather than repeating the full boilerplate for every agent call.

Consider removing the Agent Invocation Guide table since it duplicates information already clearly presented in the workflow steps, or keep only the table and simplify the inline workflow descriptions.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is fairly detailed and well-structured, but contains significant repetition — the agent invocation pattern (model parameter, fallback reference) is repeated verbatim for every single agent call. The Agent Invocation Guide table at the end duplicates information already covered in the workflow. Some sections like the intro could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides highly concrete, step-by-step guidance with specific file paths, exact agent names, structured context blocks with delimiters, specific tool parameters, fallback cascades, and precise output formats. The workflow is fully executable by Claude with no ambiguity about what to do at each step.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The multi-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit phases (Wave 1/2/3), prerequisite checks with fallback cascades, error handling with retry logic and user prompts, and validation checkpoints (e.g., checking for existing reports, verifying persona quality). The phase-parallel execution model is clearly explained with dependency ordering.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill references external files (interview-protocol.md, persona-casting-spec.md, interview-report-template.md) which is good progressive disclosure, but no bundle files were provided to verify these exist. The SKILL.md itself is quite long (~200+ lines) and some content like the detailed agent invocation contexts for each wave could potentially be moved to the referenced protocol file. The structure is reasonable but the body carries a lot of inline detail.

2 / 3

Total

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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.

This is a strong skill description that excels across all dimensions. It provides an extensive list of natural trigger terms, clearly describes both what the skill does and when to use it, and occupies a distinct niche that is unlikely to conflict with other skills. The only minor note is that the description is somewhat front-loaded with trigger terms, but this doesn't detract from its effectiveness.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete actions: conducting structured interviews with synthetic personas through three adversarial lenses (Pragmatist, Skeptic, Power User), and producing an interview report with per-persona findings, synthesized themes, and recommended concept updates.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (stress-test a product concept by conducting structured interviews with synthetic personas through three adversarial lenses, producing a report with findings, themes, and recommendations) and 'when' (explicit list of trigger phrases plus the broader condition of wanting to stress-test a product concept).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms including 'stress interview', 'synthetic interview', 'user interview stress test', 'interview my personas', 'test with synthetic users', 'persona interview', 'simulate user interviews', 'run user interviews'. These are terms users would naturally say when seeking this functionality.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive with a clear niche: synthetic persona interviews for product concept stress-testing through specific adversarial lenses. The trigger terms are unique and unlikely to conflict with other skills like general user research, persona creation, or interview question generation.

3 / 3

Total

12

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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.

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

10

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11

Passed

Repository
AppsVortex/arness
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