collapse-pass

Run a continuous collapse-and-simplify pass that surgically removes indirection failing to earn its boundary. Use when the user says 'collapse pass', 'simplify pass', 'simplify this', 'reduce indirection', 'shrink the surface', 'find what to delete', when asking to audit a package for dead abstractions, when reviewing a pull request, branch, or recent merged change for simplification (isolated in a worktree), or when the goal is a sequence of small refactor commits that delete more than they add. When the target is the branching inside one function rather than a surface spanning files, use control-flow instead.

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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.

A well-structured, dense instruction skill with a clearly sequenced ritual, explicit validation and revert feedback loops, and clean one-level-deep references that all resolve to real bundle files. It assumes Claude's competence and mostly avoids over-explanation.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Dense and assumes competence (no explanations of indirection, worktrees, rg, or bun), with every section earning its place; the 'Pass parameters' and implementation-gate table are slightly verbose and could be trimmed.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete executable commands (rg, bun test, bun run typecheck, git worktree/fetch/diff) and a copy-paste finding-format template, though some ritual steps are procedural ('mentally inline') rather than literal code, matching an instruction skill.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clear 7-step ritual with explicit validation checkpoints (bun test, typecheck, re-grep straggler sweep), a feedback loop ('If none is true, the change was cosmetic. Revert'), and explicit stop conditions, satisfying the destructive/batch validation requirement.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is an overview with six well-signaled, one-level-deep references ('Load on demand:' plus descriptive bullets), each prefacing its contents; all six referenced files exist in references/ and content is appropriately split.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description clearly states what the skill does and when to use it, with comprehensive natural trigger phrases and explicit boundary guidance that routes to a sibling skill. It is concise yet complete, avoiding buzzwords.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and several concrete actions ('removes indirection failing to earn its boundary', 'audit a package for dead abstractions', 'small refactor commits that delete more than they add'), with minor gaps since the actions lean conceptual rather than a fully enumerated list.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (a continuous collapse-and-simplify pass that removes unearned indirection) and 'when' via a concrete 'Use when...' clause with multiple trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive coverage of natural trigger phrases users would actually say ('collapse pass', 'simplify pass', 'simplify this', 'reduce indirection', 'shrink the surface', 'find what to delete') including synonyms and trigger contexts.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear niche with distinct triggers, plus explicit boundary routing ('When the target is the branching inside one function... use control-flow instead') that actively steers away from a sibling skill, minimizing conflict risk.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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
relative_links	Relative link issues: 8 suspicious	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: EpicenterHQ/epicenter
Path: .agents/skills/collapse-pass/SKILL.md
Commit: abe10f3

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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