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cw-brainstorm

Help users surface raw material for a piece when they don't have a specific idea yet. Invoke with /cw-brainstorm or when user says they want to explore ideas.

Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

75%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 skill body is well-structured, actionable, and concise, providing concrete verbatim prompts and a clear session workflow with an embedded quality checkpoint; it is a solid, self-contained instruction skill with only minor trimming opportunities.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and skill-specific (the New/True/Useful test is methodology Claude would not already know); the only minor waste is the empty "Lessons" placeholder section.

4 / 5

Actionability

Verbatim follow-up questions ("What surprised you about that?") and the exact transition offer ("It sounds like this one is resonating—want to develop it further?") are copy-paste ready, though the "What to Hunt For" section stays descriptive.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The four-step "How to Conduct the Session" is clearly sequenced with a floor-test checkpoint and a "keep probing until passes" loop; it is a conversational rather than destructive workflow, so the validation cap does not apply.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is self-contained with no external references and well-organized into clearly labeled sections, but at ~84 lines it sits just over the simple-skill threshold and carries an empty placeholder section.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Description

58%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.

The description clearly states both purpose and invocation trigger, but leans on a single abstract action and a narrow set of trigger synonyms, leaving it distinguishable yet somewhat generic against other ideation skills.

Suggestions

Add concrete brainstorming outputs or actions (e.g., "generates idea seeds, surfaces tensions, and flags fresh angles") to lift specificity beyond one abstract verb.

Broaden trigger terms with natural synonyms users actually say: "help me brainstorm", "I'm stuck on what to write", "I don't have an idea yet".

Sharpen distinctiveness by tying the trigger explicitly to the writing context (e.g., "for an essay, article, or post") so it does not collide with general research or brainstorm skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Help users surface raw material for a piece" names the brainstorming domain and one concrete action, but offers only a single, somewhat abstract action rather than comprehensive coverage.

3 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both what ("surface raw material for a piece") and when ("when user says they want to explore ideas"), but the "what" is somewhat abstract, keeping it just below a 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"when user says they want to explore ideas" plus "/cw-brainstorm" are natural trigger terms, but common synonyms like "brainstorm", "I'm stuck", or "I don't know what to write" are missing.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The "explore ideas" trigger is broad and could overlap with general brainstorming or research skills; the writing context ("for a piece") narrows it but not enough for a 4.

3 / 5

Total

13

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository

EveryInc/compound-writing

Path

skills/cw-brainstorm/SKILL.md

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