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git-advanced-workflows

Master advanced Git workflows including rebasing, cherry-picking, bisect, worktrees, and reflog to maintain clean history and recover from any situation. Use when managing complex Git histories, collaborating on feature branches, or troubleshooting repository issues.

79

1.09x
Quality

70%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

96%

1.09x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No findings from the security scan

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The canonical home for this skill is git-advanced-workflows in wshobson/agents

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

57%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.

A thorough, mostly executable reference with good structure, but it is held back by redundancy across recovery examples, missing inline validation checkpoints for its destructive operations, and a Resources section that points to bundle files that are not actually present.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation checkpoints inside the destructive workflows (e.g., after `git rebase -i main`, run tests and only then `git push --force-with-lease`; after reset, verify with `git log`/`git status`) to lift workflow_clarity above the destructive-operations cap.

Create the referenced bundle files (references/git-rebase-guide.md, references/git-conflict-resolution.md, references/git-history-rewriting.md, assets/git-workflow-checklist.md, assets/git-aliases.md, scripts/git-clean-branches.sh) or remove the dangling references, since the bundle currently has none of them.

De-duplicate the reflog-recovery and cherry-pick-conflict material so each appears once (e.g., keep it in Recovery Commands and cross-reference from the other sections) to tighten conciseness.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is code-heavy and mostly earns its tokens, but reflog-based recovery is demonstrated three times (Core Concepts #5, Workflow 5, Recovery Commands) and cherry-pick conflict handling is repeated, plus mild padding like "Interactive rebase is the Swiss Army knife" — enough redundancy to keep it below the efficient anchor.

3 / 5

Actionability

Abundant concrete, copy-paste-ready bash commands covering the common cases across all five techniques and workflows, with only minor gaps such as placeholder hashes (abc123/def456) and assumptions that test scripts like ./test.sh already exist.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Workflows 1–5 are sequenced and Best Practices mentions testing and backup branches, but the skill centers on destructive operations (force push, reset --hard, rebase history rewriting) and the workflows lack inline validate→fix→retry checkpoints, so the destructive-operations cap of 3 applies.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Section structure is clear and a Resources section signals one-level-deep references, but the referenced bundle files (references/*.md, assets/*.md, scripts/*.sh) do not exist in the bundle and substantial inlined content (the Advanced Techniques and full workflow catalog) could live in those references.

3 / 5

Total

13

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20

Passed

Description

83%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, well-structured description that clearly states both capabilities and explicit use-when triggers with natural keywords. Its only weakness is a mild over-claim ("recover from any situation") that slightly dilutes specificity and distinctiveness.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names several concrete advanced actions ("rebasing, cherry-picking, bisect, worktrees, and reflog") plus outcomes ("maintain clean history and recover"), but the over-claim "recover from any situation" is vague fluff that keeps it just below the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Master advanced Git workflows including rebasing, cherry-picking, bisect, worktrees, and reflog") and when ("Use when managing complex Git histories, collaborating on feature branches, or troubleshooting repository issues") with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural user phrases ("rebasing", "cherry-picking", "feature branches", "troubleshooting repository issues") with good coverage, but misses a few common synonyms a user might say, so it sits just below the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a clear advanced-Git niche (rebase/cherry-pick/bisect/worktrees/reflog) that is mostly distinct, with only minor overlap risk against a general-purpose Git skill.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

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

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 6 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

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