Conciseness

The body is lean and directive throughout — 'Ask one consequential question at a time', 'Do not mix content variables with design tokens', 'never load every installed system' — with no concept explanations or padding; even the 'Hard Boundary' section is two sentences of operational scoping. Every token earns its place.

Actionability

Concrete specifics abound: the full validator command 'node .codex/skills/ipollowork-template-generation/scripts/audit-template.mjs <template-directory>', exact artifacts ('manifest.json', 'design-tokens.css', 'a 960 x 540 cover'), '--ipw-*' token prefix, and an ordered interview protocol. Minor gaps remain: what a 'surface entry' or typed manifest variable looks like is delegated to the referenced contract rather than shown, and 're-instantiate the staged package' gives no pointer to how.

Workflow Clarity

Both 'Route The Work' and 'Package Loop' are numbered sequences with an explicit validation checkpoint ('Run the product validator before saving'), a repair feedback loop ('Repair every error'), post-validation verification (re-instantiation checks that 'variables remain editable, theme switching preserves structure, and the source project is unchanged'), and a 'Completion' reporting checklist. This matches the top anchor including error-recovery feedback loops.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a concise overview routing to one-level-deep references that exist in the bundle (references/template-generation-contract.md at 266 lines, scripts/audit-template.mjs), clearly labeled per surface ('Design:', 'Slides or native editable PPT:', 'HyperFrames Video:'). Slightly below the top anchor because routing depends on external plugin-owned paths (../../../examples/plugin-packages/...) outside this bundle and the main contract reference fans out further, making navigation marginally less self-contained.

Specificity

Names the domain ('reusable iPolloWork templates') and several concrete actions and deliverables — create, update, and the trigger clause enumerates 'planning, generating, repairing, validating, or saving a template package, manifest, reusable variables, cover, slide/PPT markers, video composition'. Below 5 because the capability statement itself is two actions (create/update) with the rest delivered as trigger nouns rather than a comprehensive action list.

Completeness

Explicitly answers both questions: what — 'Create or update reusable iPolloWork templates through conversation for Design, Slides/native editable PPT, and HyperFrames Video'; when — 'Use when planning, generating, repairing, validating, or saving a template package, manifest...'. Both are concrete and in third-person voice, matching the top anchor.

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural-keyword coverage: 'template', 'slides', 'PPT', 'video', 'design', 'manifest', 'cover', 'validate' — terms a user of this product would say. Below 5 because common synonyms like 'presentation', 'PowerPoint', or file extensions ('.pptx') are missing, which anchor 5 expects.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'iPolloWork'/'HyperFrames'/'slide/PPT markers' vocabulary carves a clear template-authoring niche, but this skill deliberately overlaps its closely related siblings (ipollowork-design-studio, ipollowork-presentations, ipollowork-video-studio) that it routes to — a request like 'make a design' vs 'make a reusable design template' is distinguishable but not foolproof, fitting anchor 4 ('mostly distinct; minor overlap risk with closely related skills').