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cw-hitchcock

Reviews for suspense and tension. Where's the bomb under the table? What does the reader know that someone doesn't?

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

68%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 body is a well-organized, actionable creative-writing review skill with a strong techniques table and a usable output template. Its main gaps are an implicit rather than explicit review workflow and minor redundancy between the Principles and Techniques sections.

Suggestions

Add a short explicit step sequence for the review (e.g. 1. Locate stakes, 2. Check for an information gap, 3. Assess pacing at the tense moment, 4. Draft the analysis using the output template) to raise workflow clarity.

Remove the empty "## Lessons" placeholder or note it is reserved, since an empty section adds noise.

Consolidate the Principles section into the Techniques table or prune the overlap to tighten conciseness.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient — the techniques table, "What to Look For" checklist, and output template each earn their tokens — with only minor trim possible (Principles restates Techniques, and the Lessons section is an empty placeholder).

4 / 5

Actionability

As an instruction-only skill it provides a concrete techniques table with worked examples, a diagnostic checklist, and a copy-paste output format template; minor gaps keep it just below fully executable.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The review process (scan for patterns, identify opportunities, produce the structured output) is coherent but implicit — there is no numbered step sequence or validation checkpoint, and the operation is non-destructive so no cap-3 applies.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

With no bundle files present, the content is organized into clear single-level sections with headers and easy navigation; it slightly exceeds the 50-line simple-skill threshold, keeping it at 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Description

48%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 names a clear, distinctive creative-writing niche but offers only one generic action verb and omits any explicit "Use when" trigger guidance, capping completeness. The metaphor-driven second sentence is evocative but not a natural user trigger phrase.

Suggestions

Replace the rhetorical questions with one or two concrete actions, e.g. "Reviews writing for suspense and tension, identifies buried stakes, and suggests revisions that heighten dramatic irony."

Add an explicit trigger clause such as "Use when a section feels flat, conflict isn't landing, or you want readers to keep reading."

Drop or de-emphasize the "bomb under the table" metaphor in the description; move it into the body and surface plain trigger words like "suspense", "tension", "stakes", and "pacing" instead.

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Specificity

"Reviews for suspense and tension" names the domain but the only action verb is the generic "Reviews"; the two follow-on sentences are rhetorical questions rather than concrete actions, so it sits at anchor 2 and not 3.

2 / 5

Completeness

The description gives a clear "what" (reviews for suspense and tension) but no "when" / "Use when" clause — when-guidance is absent rather than weakly implied, capping completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"suspense and tension" are natural user terms, but "bomb under the table" is a Hitchcock metaphor users would not say and common variations like "pacing", "stakes", or "flat section" are missing.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The suspense-and-tension niche is fairly distinct with its Hitchcock framing, with only minor overlap risk against closely related writing skills (pacing, clarity).

4 / 5

Total

12

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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-hitchcock/SKILL.md

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