This skill should be used when the user says "use cases teams", "arn use cases teams", "team use cases", "debate use cases", "collaborative use cases", "use cases with debate", "team-based use case review", "use case debate", "review use cases as a team", or wants to create structured use case documents through expert debate where product strategist and UX specialist review and discuss each other's findings before revising, producing a use-cases/ directory with individual Cockburn fully-dressed use case files and a README index.
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Discovery
85%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 strong in specificity and completeness, clearly defining both what the skill does and when to use it. The explicit enumeration of trigger phrases is thorough but feels somewhat mechanical and misses some natural user language variations. The description's main strength is its highly distinctive methodology (Cockburn fully-dressed use cases via expert debate), making it easy to differentiate from other skills.
Suggestions
Add more natural trigger terms users might actually say, such as 'Cockburn use cases', 'fully dressed use cases', or 'use case document generation', rather than relying heavily on enumerated exact phrases.
Consider restructuring to lead with the capability description first, then follow with a 'Use when...' clause, rather than front-loading the trigger phrases which makes the description harder to scan.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: creating structured use case documents through expert debate, product strategist and UX specialist reviewing and discussing findings, producing a use-cases/ directory with individual Cockburn fully-dressed use case files and a README index. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (creates structured Cockburn fully-dressed use case documents through expert debate between product strategist and UX specialist, producing a directory with files and README index) and 'when' (explicit list of trigger phrases plus the general condition of wanting team-based use case debate). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes many explicit trigger phrases like 'use cases teams', 'debate use cases', 'team-based use case review', but these feel artificially enumerated rather than naturally occurring user phrases. Missing more natural variations like 'Cockburn use cases', 'fully dressed use cases', or 'use case analysis'. | 2 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly distinctive with a very specific niche: Cockburn fully-dressed use cases created through a structured expert debate process between specific roles (product strategist and UX specialist). Unlikely to conflict with generic document or use case skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
47%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a comprehensive orchestration skill with excellent workflow clarity and thorough error handling, but it suffers significantly from verbosity. The Agent Invocation Guide table and Error Handling section together add ~80 lines that largely duplicate or could be inferred from the workflow steps. Actionability is moderate — while the workflow is specific, it relies heavily on external reference files for concrete templates and lacks inline executable examples.
Suggestions
Eliminate the Agent Invocation Guide table — it restates the workflow steps. If a quick-reference is needed, move it to a separate reference file.
Trim the Error Handling section to only non-obvious cases (e.g., keep 'Agent Teams not enabled' fallback, remove 'User cancels mid-process' which Claude can handle naturally).
Include a concrete example of an agent invocation prompt inline (e.g., the exact prompt sent to arn-spark-product-strategist in Step 5a sequential mode) rather than describing it in prose.
Move the deferral responses ('User asks about technology choices', etc.) to a separate reference file or remove them — Claude can infer appropriate deferrals from context.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is extremely verbose at ~300+ lines with significant repetition. The Agent Invocation Guide table largely restates what was already described in the workflow steps. Error handling covers many edge cases that Claude could infer. The debate mode configuration, sequential invocation details, and file path conventions are repeated across multiple sections. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides specific file paths, agent names, environment variable checks, and step-by-step sequences, which is good. However, it lacks executable code examples — the invocation patterns for agents are described in prose rather than with concrete command/prompt templates. Key details like exact agent invocation syntax are deferred to external references (debate-protocol.md, expert-review-template.md) that are not provided. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The workflow is exceptionally well-sequenced with 8 clearly numbered steps, sub-steps (5a-5e), explicit validation checkpoints (convergence checks), feedback loops (debate rounds with revision), conflict resolution with user input, and a task list that tracks progress. Resume detection and error recovery paths are thorough. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill references external files appropriately (debate-protocol.md, review-report-template.md, use-case-template.md, expert-review-template.md, the base SKILL.md for use-cases), which is good progressive disclosure. However, the main SKILL.md itself is monolithic — the Agent Invocation Guide and Error Handling sections could be separate reference files. Without bundle files provided, we cannot verify the referenced paths exist, but the references are clearly signaled and one-level deep. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 8 / 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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