budget-checker

Validates that a proposed trip fits within the user's stated budget

Quality

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Quality

Content

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

The body is a tight, actionable instruction set with concrete cost categories and reduction strategies, well-suited to a simple instruction-only skill. The main gap is the lack of explicit guidance on what to report when the trip is within budget and how cost estimates are sourced.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The two-sentence body is lean and assumes Claude's competence, with no padding or explanation of what a budget is; every token earns its place, matching the score-5 anchor.	5 / 5
Actionability	It gives concrete guidance — named cost categories ("flights, hotels, and activities") and specific reduction strategies ("cheaper dates, alternative airports, hostels instead of hotels") — but leaves a minor gap on how to obtain or present the cost estimates, fitting score 4 rather than 5.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The compare-then-conditionally-suggest sequence is clear and unambiguous for a simple skill, but it does not explicitly state what to report when the trip is within budget, a minor gap keeping it below 5.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	This is a single-purpose skill well under 50 lines with no need for external references; the content is appropriately self-contained and requires no file split, satisfying the simple-skill exception for a score of 5.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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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 concise and third-person with a clear purpose, but it offers only one generic action and lacks an explicit "Use when..." trigger clause, capping both specificity and completeness. Adding concrete actions and a trigger clause would meaningfully improve it.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when planning a trip and the user states a budget or spending limit."

List concrete actions beyond "validates" — e.g. "sums flights, hotels, and activity costs; flags over-budget items; suggests cheaper alternatives."

Include natural synonyms users say, such as "travel," "vacation," "flights," and "spending limit," to broaden trigger coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	It names the domain (trip budget) and a single generic action ("Validates that a proposed trip fits within the user's stated budget"), matching the score-2 anchor of naming a domain with minimal/generic action; it does not list multiple concrete actions that would lift it to 3.	2 / 5
Completeness	It gives a clear "what" (validates trip fits budget) but has no "Use when..." or equivalent trigger clause, so per the missing-trigger-cap guideline completeness is capped at 3.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	"trip" and "budget" are natural terms a user would say, but common variations and synonyms (travel, flights, hotels, vacation, spending limit) are absent, matching the score-3 anchor of some relevant keywords missing common variations.	3 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The trip-budget niche is fairly distinct with specific triggers, but the broad term "budget" creates minor overlap with general finance/budgeting skills, fitting the score-4 anchor of mostly distinct with minor overlap risk.	4 / 5
	Total	12 / 20 Passed

Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Path: samples/agentserver/travel-agent-optimization-di/.agent_configs/baseline/skills/budget-checker/SKILL.md
Commit: bc946a1

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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