ce-handoff

Create a session handoff for another agent, or resume, find, and read any user-selected continuity source. Use when work or conversation must continue without access to the current session history.

Quality

86%

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Low

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Quality

Content

85%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 well-structured, actionable instruction skill with clear routing, explicit stop/validation checkpoints, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure. The main improvement room is trimming a few philosophical framing sentences and making the copyable command example concrete.

Suggestions

Replace the placeholder fenced block with one concrete rendered example (e.g. '/ce-handoff resume /tmp/ce-handoff/last.md') so the copyable command is ready to use.

Tighten the opening 'deliberately open at their edges' paragraph into a single sentence stating the default-vs-restriction rule.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly lean, policy-driven prose that assumes Claude's competence; a few framing sentences ('deliberately open at their edges', restating default-vs-restriction) could be trimmed without losing the instruction.	4 / 5
Actionability	Concrete directives throughout ('Read references/create.md before writing anything', 'redact secrets', 'End the creation response with one fenced, copyable command'); the copyable command block is a placeholder rather than a ready example, a minor gap keeping it below 5.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clear routing into Create/Resume with explicit checkpoints: 'Creation is complete only after confirming the destination contains the handoff' and two 'MUST stop' gates that act as validation/feedback boundaries.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Body is a concise overview that signals two real one-level-deep references ('Read references/create.md', 'Read references/resume.md') as non-optional loads; content is appropriately split and easy to navigate.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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, third-person description that clearly states capabilities and an explicit 'Use when' trigger, with a distinct niche. It could push specificity and trigger-term breadth higher by naming concrete destinations, formats, or more synonyms.

Suggestions

Add a concrete destination or format cue (e.g. 'to a managed /tmp store or a user-named path') to lift specificity toward 5.

Include one or two more natural synonyms (e.g. 'hand off', 'pick up where another agent left off') to broaden trigger-term coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names several concrete actions ('Create a session handoff', 'resume, find, and read any user-selected continuity source') with good coverage; falls short of a 5 because the actions stay somewhat abstract (no destination/formats named).	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Create a session handoff... resume, find, and read...') and when ('Use when work or conversation must continue without access to the current session history') with a concrete trigger clause.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Good natural-term coverage ('session handoff', 'resume', 'continue', 'session history') that users would plausibly say; a 5 would require more synonyms/variations, which are thin here.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (cross-agent session continuity without session history) with distinct triggers; minimal realistic overlap with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 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
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
Path: skills/ce-handoff/SKILL.md
Commit: 26bf5b1

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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