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billing-automation

Build automated billing systems for recurring payments, invoicing, subscription lifecycle, and dunning management. Use when implementing subscription billing, automating invoicing, or managing recurring payment systems.

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tessl review fix ./tests/ext_conformance/artifacts/agents-wshobson/payment-processing/skills/billing-automation/SKILL.md

The canonical home for this skill is billing-automation in wshobson/agents

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

46%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 rich with domain-specific implementation detail and code, but it is structured as an inline monolith: full class implementations live in SKILL.md while the reference files they should live in are listed but missing from the bundle. Workflows lack validation checkpoints, and several code blocks are non-executable stubs.

Suggestions

Create the advertised bundle files (references/billing-cycles.md, dunning-management.md, proration.md, tax-calculation.md, invoice-lifecycle.md, assets/*.yaml/html) and move the inline class implementations into them, keeping SKILL.md as a concise overview with clearly signaled one-level-deep links.

Add explicit validation checkpoints to the billing workflow (e.g., verify invoice totals before charging, confirm tax jurisdiction resolution, test-mode charge before live charge, verify dunning retry count before cancellation) so destructive/batch operations have a verify-then-proceed loop.

Cut the 'Core Concepts' section and make the code self-contained: either import real dependencies (stripe, reportlab) or remove pass-stub methods like to_pdf() and validate_vat_number(), so the examples are executable rather than illustrative.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient, but the 'Core Concepts' section pads with knowledge Claude already has (listing 'Monthly, Annual, Quarterly, Weekly' intervals, defining dunning and proration in prose), and the ~400 lines of class implementations could be tightened — e.g., the full Invoice.to_html template string and pass-stub methods.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete code is provided throughout, but it is illustrative rather than executable: it depends on an undefined `billing` module, plus undefined `generate_id()`, `PaymentResult`, `send_email`, `UsageRecord`, `DunningAttempt`, and `to_pdf`/`validate_vat_number` are `pass` stubs — more than minor gaps.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The billing-cycle sequence exists (generate invoice → charge → advance period or start dunning) but is embedded in code rather than stated as a workflow, and there are no validation checkpoints for operations that charge customers and cancel subscriptions — a cap per the batch/destructive-operations guideline.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The Resources section lists references/ and assets/ files, but none of those files exist in the bundle — every reference is dangling — while ~400 lines of implementation code (proration, tax, invoices, usage billing) that clearly belongs in those separate files is inlined in SKILL.md.

2 / 5

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Description

87%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.

A strong description: third-person voice, concrete actions, and an explicit 'Use when' clause with natural trigger phrases. Its only weakness is that the capability list stops short of the full scope (proration, tax, usage-based billing) the skill body covers.

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Specificity

The description names several concrete actions — "recurring payments, invoicing, subscription lifecycle, and dunning management" — but omits proration, tax calculation, and usage-based billing, which the skill body treats as core scope, so coverage has minor gaps rather than being comprehensive.

4 / 5

Completeness

It clearly answers both questions with concrete triggers: the 'what' is "Build automated billing systems for recurring payments, invoicing, subscription lifecycle, and dunning management" and the 'when' is an explicit "Use when implementing subscription billing, automating invoicing, or managing recurring payment systems."

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage ("subscription billing", "invoicing", "recurring payment systems") that users would actually say, though a few natural variations are missing (e.g., "SaaS", "charging customers", "invoices", "payment failed").

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Billing automation" is a clear niche with distinct triggers (subscription billing, invoicing, dunning); it is unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, and its trigger phrases are specific to this domain.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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skill_md_line_count

SKILL.md is long (567 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

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referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 8 missing

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository

Dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust

Path

tests/ext_conformance/artifacts/agents-wshobson/payment-processing/skills/billing-automation/SKILL.md

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