Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.
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Impact
99%
5.82xAverage score across 10 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./brand-guidelines/SKILL.mdQuality
Discovery
89%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 description that clearly identifies its niche (Anthropic brand styling) and provides explicit trigger guidance. Its main weakness is that the capabilities could be more specific—listing concrete actions beyond just 'applies brand colors and typography' would strengthen it. The description is noted as a good example in the rubric itself, and it performs well across most dimensions.
Suggestions
Add more specific concrete actions, e.g., 'Applies Anthropic's official color palette (#hex values), typography (font families), and spacing conventions to HTML, CSS, SVGs, and other artifacts.'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (brand colors and typography) and a general action (applies), but doesn't list multiple specific concrete actions like 'set color palettes, apply font families, configure heading styles'. The phrase 'any sort of artifact that may benefit' is vague. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography) and 'when' (explicitly states 'Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply'). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes strong natural trigger terms: 'brand colors', 'style guidelines', 'visual formatting', 'company design standards', 'Anthropic', 'look-and-feel', 'typography'. These cover a good range of terms users would naturally say. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly distinctive due to the specific mention of 'Anthropic's official brand colors and typography'. This is a clear niche that is unlikely to conflict with other skills unless there are multiple Anthropic branding skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
22%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill functions as a brand reference card listing Anthropic's colors and typography, but it critically lacks actionability — there are no code examples, commands, or concrete steps for applying the brand styling to any artifact. The information is also repetitive, with font fallback and application details stated multiple times across sections. To be useful as a skill, it needs executable examples showing how to actually apply these brand elements.
Suggestions
Add executable Python code examples showing how to apply brand colors and fonts to common artifacts (e.g., a python-pptx snippet applying Poppins to headings and brand colors to slides).
Define a clear workflow: e.g., 1. Identify artifact type, 2. Apply color palette, 3. Apply typography, 4. Validate output — with concrete commands at each step.
Consolidate the repeated font/fallback information into a single section to eliminate redundancy (currently repeated in Typography, Smart Font Application, Text Styling, and Font Management).
Add at least one complete input→output example showing a before/after of brand styling applied to a specific artifact type.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | There's noticeable redundancy — font application details are repeated across 'Typography', 'Smart Font Application', 'Text Styling', and 'Technical Details > Font Management'. The fallback information appears three times. However, the core color/typography reference data is useful and not overly padded with explanations of basic concepts. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides no executable code, no concrete commands, and no examples of how to actually apply the brand styling. It describes what happens ('Applies Poppins font to headings') but never shows how to do it — no Python snippets, no function calls, no copy-paste ready guidance. | 1 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | There is no workflow, sequence of steps, or process described. The skill reads as a reference sheet of brand values but provides no guidance on how to apply them to an artifact. For a skill that involves modifying documents (e.g., PowerPoint via python-pptx), the absence of any step-by-step process is a significant gap. | 1 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is organized into logical sections with clear headings, which aids readability. However, there are no references to external files for deeper detail, and the repeated information across sections suggests the content could be better structured — either consolidated or split into a quick-reference and a detailed guide. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 6 / 12 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.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
No warnings or errors.
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