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cw-reader

Review copy as an intended reader encountering it for the first time, with no access to the writer's unstated context. Identify confusing language, missing setup, assumed knowledge, broken expectations, trust-eroding or off-putting moments, and points where the reader may stop. Use for cold reads, fresh-eyes reviews, first-time-reader perspectives, reader-journey checks, or feedback on what feels confusing, missing, alienating, or hard to follow.

Quality

92%

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SKILL.md
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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 a clear workflow and concrete output template. Its main weaknesses are mild redundancy in the Principles section and a broken external reference to context-contract.md that undermines progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Provide the missing `references/context-contract.md` (or remove/inline the reference) so the 'Establish The Reader' step is not blocked by a broken path.

Trim the Principles section to items not already established in the procedural steps to remove redundancy and recover token budget.

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Conciseness

Lean and free of basic-concept padding, but the Principles section restates ideas already covered procedurally (e.g., 'Quote the copy precisely' repeats Output guidance; 'Do not let later context retroactively repair' repeats 'Preserve the sequence'), introducing minor redundancy.

4 / 5

Actionability

Highly actionable for an instruction-only skill: a concrete cold-pass tracking list, a diagnostic table with explicit questions, and a copy-paste-ready markdown Output template with exact structure and severity labels.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear sequenced phases — Establish The Reader, Make A Cold Pass, Diagnose The Friction, Output — with the diagnose step acting as an explicit checkpoint; no validation needed for this non-destructive read-and-report task.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well-organized with clear headers and a one-level-deep reference, but the referenced `../../references/context-contract.md` does not exist in the bundle, breaking the disclosure path the skill depends on for the 'Establish The Reader' step.

3 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Description

96%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 capability and triggers with concrete, natural language and comprehensive action coverage. The only soft spot is distinctiveness against sibling review skills, which the description does not address directly.

Suggestions

Add a brief disambiguating clause distinguishing cw-reader from sibling copy-review skills (e.g., 'unlike cw-objections, this reports readability and trust, not argument validity') to reduce overlap-trigger risk.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('Review copy as an intended reader') and lists multiple concrete diagnostic targets ('confusing language, missing setup, assumed knowledge, broken expectations, trust-eroding or off-putting moments, and points where the reader may stop'), giving comprehensive coverage of what the skill does.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (review copy as a first-time reader and identify specific friction types) and 'when' ('Use for cold reads, fresh-eyes reviews...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

The 'Use for' clause surfaces natural phrasings users would actually say — 'cold reads, fresh-eyes reviews, first-time-reader perspectives, reader-journey checks' — with strong synonym coverage of the trigger space.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The first-time-reader framing carves a clear niche distinct from generic editing, but the description alone does not disambiguate from closely related sibling copy-review skills (cw-mom, cw-objections, cw-dev-edit), leaving minor overlap risk.

4 / 5

Total

19

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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-reader/SKILL.md

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