helm-chart-scaffolding

Design, organize, and manage Helm charts for templating and packaging Kubernetes applications with reusable configurations. Use when creating Helm charts, packaging Kubernetes applications, or implementing templated deployments.

1.03x

Quality

71%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

97%

1.03x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

Securityby

Passed

No findings from the security scan

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tessl review fix ./tests/ext_conformance/artifacts/agents-wshobson/kubernetes-operations/skills/helm-chart-scaffolding/SKILL.md

The canonical home for this skill is helm-chart-scaffolding in wshobson/agents

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 delivers highly actionable, well-sequenced Helm guidance with real, well-signaled bundle files. Its main weakness is token efficiency: it re-explains basics Claude knows and duplicates content that already exists in the referenced asset files.

Suggestions

Remove the "Helm Overview" section and the standard `helm create` boilerplate (_helpers.tpl) — Claude already knows these; keep only project-specific conventions.

Replace the inlined Chart.yaml and values.yaml examples with the existing `assets/Chart.yaml.template` and `assets/values.yaml.template` references, keeping only a short illustrative excerpt in the body.

Add an explicit validation feedback loop in step 7 (e.g., "If lint or rendering fails, fix the template and re-run before proceeding to packaging") and correct the invalid `helm template --dry-run` flag in the validation script.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The "Helm Overview" section explains what Helm is (concepts Claude already knows), full Chart.yaml and values.yaml examples are inlined despite equivalent asset templates being referenced, and the _helpers.tpl block is standard `helm create` boilerplate — several padded sections.	2 / 5
Actionability	Nearly all guidance is copy-paste ready (helm create/lint/template/package, complete deployment and hook templates), but Pattern 1's Ingress is truncated with "# ..." and the validation script uses `helm template ... --dry-run`, which is not a valid flag for that subcommand.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The ten numbered steps are coherently sequenced with a dedicated validation step before packaging and a troubleshooting section, but there is no explicit "if validation fails, fix and re-run" feedback loop.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	All four referenced bundle files exist, are clearly signaled inline and in a Reference Files section, and are one level deep; however, substantial content duplicated inline (Chart.yaml, values.yaml, helpers) already lives in the asset templates.	4 / 5
	Total	14 / 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 description that explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it with concrete trigger phrases. Verb specificity and trigger synonym coverage have minor gaps, and one trigger phrase risks overlap with adjacent Kubernetes skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Design, organize, and manage Helm charts" plus "templating and packaging Kubernetes applications with reusable configurations" lists several domain-specific actions, though the verbs remain high-level without finer-grained capabilities like linting, packaging .tgz artifacts, or managing dependencies.	4 / 5
Completeness	The description clearly states what it does and explicitly answers when with "Use when creating Helm charts, packaging Kubernetes applications, or implementing templated deployments" — concrete trigger phrases matching the top anchor.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural phrases users would say are present ("Helm charts", "Kubernetes applications", "packaging", "templated deployments"), but common variations like "helm", "K8s", "values.yaml", or "chart repository" are missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The Helm/Kubernetes-packaging niche is distinct with clear triggers, but "implementing templated deployments" is broad enough to overlap with a generic Kubernetes-manifest skill.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (567 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: Dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust
Path: tests/ext_conformance/artifacts/agents-wshobson/kubernetes-operations/skills/helm-chart-scaffolding/SKILL.md
Commit: a65ce00

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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