electron

Electron patterns for building cross-platform desktop applications. Trigger: When building desktop apps, working with Electron main/renderer processes, IPC communication, or native integrations.

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable with complete, executable code examples across the core Electron concerns. It is weaker on conciseness (long boilerplate) and progressive disclosure (monolithic single file with no bundle references).

Suggestions

Move the full native-menu template and other large boilerplate into reference files under references/ and link to them, keeping SKILL.md a lean overview.

Trim redundant re-statements of the safe IPC pattern in the Anti-Patterns section by referencing the pattern above instead of re-listing the full code.

Add a short sequenced "Setup workflow" with explicit validation checkpoints (e.g., verify contextIsolation is enabled, test IPC round-trip) to improve workflow clarity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly concrete code rather than concept explanation, but it includes lengthy boilerplate (e.g., the full ~75-line native menu template) and re-shows the safe IPC version in anti-patterns, which could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready TypeScript covering the common Electron cases — preload contextBridge, IPC handlers, React hooks, auto-updater, menus, and security configuration.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Organized as a patterns/examples catalog with clear sections rather than a sequenced multi-step workflow, and lacks explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops.	3 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Section headers are clear, but all content is inlined into a single ~520-line SKILL.md with no bundle files (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent); the under-50-line simple-skill exception does not apply.	3 / 5
	Total	14 / 20 Passed

Description

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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 identifies the Electron domain and provides an explicit trigger clause with natural keywords, making it highly distinctive. Its main weakness is that the "what" is a single general action rather than a list of concrete capabilities.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the Electron domain and a couple of specific areas (main/renderer processes, IPC communication, native integrations), but these read as trigger contexts rather than comprehensive concrete actions the skill performs.	3 / 5
Completeness	Both a "what" ("Electron patterns for building cross-platform desktop applications") and an explicit "when" ("Trigger: When building desktop apps...") are present, but the "what" is a single general action rather than the multi-action coverage of a 5.	4 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural terms a user would say — "building desktop apps", "Electron main/renderer processes", "IPC communication", "native integrations" — with only a few synonyms/extensions missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Electron is a specific named framework with distinct triggers (main/renderer processes, IPC, native integrations), giving it a clear niche and minimal conflict risk with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (533 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: Gentleman-Programming/Gentleman-Skills
Path: community/electron/SKILL.md
Commit: c8036a3

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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