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theme-creator

Create a modern WordPress block theme.

76

1.19x
Quality

68%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

81%

1.19x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

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The canonical home for this skill is theme-creator in Automattic/build-with-wordpress

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

88%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The body is concise, highly actionable, and provides a clear validation-gated workflow with concrete block-theme specifics. The main gap is the absence of a complete copy-paste block-markup example and no use of reference files, which leaves actionability and progressive disclosure just short of full marks.

Suggestions

Add one complete copy-paste template (e.g. a full-width hero section's serialized block markup) to make the layout rules fully executable.

Move the long layout-rules detail into a reference file (e.g. references/layout-patterns.md) and link to it from the body to deepen progressive disclosure.

Optionally add a short 'Quick start' sequence at the top so the build-then-verify flow is visible before the rule sections.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Lean, bullet-driven content that assumes Claude's competence and never explains what WordPress or blocks are; every line earns its place, fitting the score-5 anchor of lean and efficient.

5 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable guidance (file tree, exact enqueue call with hook, specific block-markup JSON) but lacks a complete copy-paste template example, fitting the score-4 anchor of mostly executable guidance with minor gaps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The numbered verification flow includes an explicit validation feedback loop (validate, repair, re-run until clean), activation, review, and started/completed workflow events, matching the score-5 anchor of clear sequence with explicit validation and feedback loops.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized sections with content kept compact and no nested references; no bundle files exist, so there is nothing to split, but the body is slightly over the 50-line simple-skill threshold, fitting the score-4 anchor of good structure with minor organization gaps.

4 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Description

48%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 correctly uses third person and targets a clear niche, but it is a single terse clause with no use-when trigger guidance and only one generic action verb. Adding an explicit trigger clause and a second concrete action would lift the completeness and specificity scores.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming concrete triggers, e.g. 'Use when the user wants a new WordPress theme or a block-theme visual overhaul.'

Expand the action beyond 'Create' to list concrete actions (e.g., scaffold theme.json, build templates and template parts, enqueue styles) to improve specificity.

Include natural synonyms users say (WordPress site, block theme, theme.json, .css) to broaden trigger-term coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ("WordPress block theme") but uses only a single generic verb ("Create"); coverage of concrete actions is minimal, matching the score-2 anchor of naming the domain with minimal actions.

2 / 5

Completeness

Has a clear "what" (create a modern WordPress block theme) but no "Use when..." clause; per the guideline a missing explicit trigger caps completeness at 3, and the what itself is minimal.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Contains relevant natural terms ("WordPress theme", "block theme") but lacks common synonyms and variations users would say ("site", "wp", "blog", file extensions), matching the score-3 anchor of some relevant keywords with missing variations.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The WordPress block-theme niche is mostly distinct with only minor overlap risk against other WordPress or theming skills, fitting the score-4 anchor better than the thinner-trigger score 5 or broader score 3.

4 / 5

Total

12

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20

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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
Automattic/build-with-wordpress
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