Schedule reminders and recurring tasks.
78
66%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
100%
1.81xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
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Discovery
32%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 too brief and lacks explicit trigger guidance ('Use when...'), which is critical for skill selection. While it names the core domain of reminders and recurring tasks, it doesn't enumerate specific capabilities or provide enough natural language trigger terms to reliably distinguish it from related skills.
Suggestions
Add a 'Use when...' clause with trigger terms like 'remind me', 'set a reminder', 'recurring task', 'schedule', 'notify me', 'repeat every'.
Expand the capability list with specific actions such as 'create, edit, delete, and list reminders; configure recurring schedules (daily, weekly, monthly)'.
Include common user phrasings and synonyms like 'alarm', 'to-do', 'notification', 'scheduled alert' to improve trigger term coverage.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (reminders/tasks) and two actions (schedule reminders, recurring tasks), but lacks detail on specific capabilities like editing, deleting, listing, or notification methods. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Describes what the skill does but completely lacks a 'Use when...' clause or any explicit trigger guidance for when Claude should select this skill. Per rubric guidelines, missing 'Use when' caps completeness at 2, and the 'what' is also thin, warranting a 1. | 1 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes natural keywords like 'reminders' and 'recurring tasks' that users might say, but misses common variations like 'alarm', 'notify me', 'set a reminder', 'to-do', 'scheduled task', or 'repeat'. | 2 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The combination of 'reminders' and 'recurring tasks' provides some specificity, but 'tasks' is generic enough to overlap with task management, to-do list, or project management skills. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 7 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
100%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is an excellent, well-crafted skill that is concise, actionable, and clearly structured. It provides concrete tool invocations covering all use cases, a helpful mapping table for time expressions, and clean organization without any unnecessary verbosity. No significant improvements needed.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Every section is lean and purposeful. No unnecessary explanations of what cron is or how scheduling works. The table format for time expressions is efficient and avoids verbose prose. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready tool invocations for all modes (add, list, remove) with specific parameter examples. The time expressions table maps natural language to exact parameters, giving Claude clear guidance on how to translate user requests. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | This is a simple, single-purpose skill with clear modes and unambiguous actions. The three modes are cleanly delineated, and the list/remove operations provide the necessary management workflow. No destructive batch operations require validation checkpoints. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | For a simple skill under 50 lines with no need for external references, the content is well-organized into logical sections (modes, examples, time expressions, timezone) that are easy to scan and navigate. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 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 — 11 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
No warnings or errors.
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