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cw-sorkin

Checks pacing and momentum. Is there enough forward motion? Are you walking and talking or standing still?

Quality

74%

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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 token-efficient, giving Claude a clear analytical workflow and output template for pacing review. Its main gap is the absence of a worked end-to-end example demonstrating the output format in practice.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean and assumes Claude's competence without explaining what pacing is, with only minor restatement (e.g., "The Sorkin Question" rephrases earlier techniques) that could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides a concrete Problem/Fix table, five named techniques, and a copy-paste output-format scaffold; falls short of 5 only because it lacks a fully worked example applying the scaffold.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The invocation flow and analysis sequence (run, identify the biggest stall, section-by-section notes, rewrite) are clear and well-ordered; no validation checkpoints are needed for this non-destructive editorial skill, so it scores 4 rather than the full 5 reserved for explicit feedback loops.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and the body is organized into clearly headed sections with no nested references or inlined bulk that belongs elsewhere; it misses 5 only because the body runs beyond the ~50-line simple-skill threshold, leaving minor room to split techniques or examples into a reference file.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Description

61%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 vivid and on-brand but relies on metaphor over concrete capabilities and lacks an explicit use-when trigger clause. It is distinctive but incomplete on the "when" axis.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming trigger scenarios (e.g., 'Use when a piece feels slow, readers drop off midway, or a section feels static or lecture-y').

Replace some metaphor ("walking and talking") with 1-2 concrete editing actions (e.g., 'identifies where momentum stalls and rewrites sections for forward motion').

Include natural user synonyms like "feels slow" or "dragging" alongside "pacing" and "momentum".

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ("Checks pacing and momentum") but frames actions as metaphor ("walking and talking or standing still") rather than listing concrete editorial operations, matching the score-3 anchor of naming the domain with 1-2 concrete actions.

3 / 5

Completeness

Provides a clear "what" (checks pacing and momentum) but no explicit "Use when..." clause, which per the judging guidelines caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural writer-facing phrases ("pacing", "momentum", "forward motion", "walking and talking") that users would say; falls just short of comprehensive coverage by missing common variants like "feels slow" or "dragging".

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The pacing/momentum niche is mostly distinct from other editing skills with minor overlap risk against general style or structure reviewers.

4 / 5

Total

14

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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-sorkin/SKILL.md

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