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cw-sedaris

Finds the funny. Looks for moments that could be mined for humor, absurdity, or self-deprecation.

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SKILL.md
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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 content is a well-crafted, lean instruction skill with concrete techniques, a usable output template, and clean sectioning. It stays just short of 5 due to light cross-section redundancy and a placeholder Lessons section.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence, with no padding explaining what humor or self-deprecation is; the only minor trim is mild redundancy between 'Where Funny Hides', 'The Sedaris Moves', and 'Principles', which restate a few points.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, specific guidance throughout — a lookup table of humor sources, five named 'moves' with worked examples, and a copy-paste Output Format template — gives mostly executable direction with only minor gaps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The single-purpose flow is unambiguous (invoke -> identify moments -> emit the Comedy Notes template), and the output template implicitly sequences the work; it is a simple non-destructive skill so the validation cap does not apply, though an explicit step list would push it to 5.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clear sections (Purpose, Invocation, Where Funny Hides, Moves, Output Format, Principles, When Humor Doesn't Fit) with no nested references; as a single self-contained file it is well-structured, with only the empty 'Lessons' placeholder leaving a minor gap.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Description

53%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 is punchy and on-brand but lacks an explicit 'when to use' trigger clause, which caps completeness and leaves trigger coverage partial. It is clearly distinct but somewhat light on concrete, enumerated actions.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when a piece feels too serious, self-important, or forgettable and could use levity.'

Broaden trigger terms with natural synonyms users would say ('jokes', 'comedy', 'levity', 'make this funnier').

Name one or two more concrete actions (e.g. 'flags passages worth rewriting and drafts a funnier version') to raise specificity.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('the funny') and 1-2 concrete lenses ('humor, absurdity, or self-deprecation'), but does not enumerate a comprehensive set of specific actions; it describes a single analytical act rather than multiple concrete operations.

3 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear ('Finds the funny. Looks for moments...'), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, so per the rubric completeness is capped at 3 with a clear 'what' but missing 'when'.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes some natural terms a user would say ('funny', 'humor', 'absurdity', 'self-deprecation'), but misses common synonyms and variations like 'jokes', 'comedy', 'levity', or 'make it funnier', so coverage is partial.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The humor-comedy niche is distinctive and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills; minor overlap risk only with very broad 'editing' skills, so it is mostly distinct.

4 / 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-sedaris/SKILL.md

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