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cw-dogfood

Use when a Codewhale change needs proving in the real product, or when asked to build/install/dogfood the local binaries: stamped release build, atomic install, fresh-shell verification, and the manual QA that gates cannot cover.

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Quality

Content

96%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 body is an exemplar of an actionable runtime-QA skill: dense, executable, and assumption-respecting, with a well-sequenced workflow, explicit validation, and useful checklists. The only soft spot is progressive disclosure — references are repo-relative and well-signaled but there is no structured reference bundle to verify against.

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Conciseness

Lean and high-signal throughout — it assumes Claude's competence and gives only non-obvious domain rationale (Apple Silicon code-signature cache poisoning, the stale-PATH false pass) rather than explaining basics, so every token earns its place.

5 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands cover the common cases: the stamped build, install-dogfood.sh, fresh-shell verification, and the app-server/exec smoke — each with exact env vars and flags.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 7-step sequence with explicit validation checkpoints (gating, embedded-SHA verification, fresh-shell resolution, version-string check), false-pass warnings, and 'Red flags / don't' plus 'Output' sections that function as checklists for a destructive install.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into When-to-use / Workflow / Red-flags / Output sections with clearly signaled one-level-deep references (crates/tui/AGENTS.md, docs/MOTION_CONTRACT.md, sibling cw-* skills); the inlined scenario checklist is appropriate, but no dedicated reference bundle exists and a little scenario detail could live separately, so it sits just below the exemplar.

4 / 5

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Description

87%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 specific, third-person, and cleanly answers both what the skill does and when to invoke it, with natural trigger terms like 'dogfood' and 'install the build'. It is near-exemplary; only minor genericity in 'manual QA' and a few missing synonyms keep it from a perfect specificity/trigger score.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete actions — 'stamped release build, atomic install, fresh-shell verification, and the manual QA that gates cannot cover' — but 'manual QA' is somewhat generic, leaving minor coverage gaps versus the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('stamped release build, atomic install, fresh-shell verification, and the manual QA that gates cannot cover') and when ('Use when a Codewhale change needs proving… or when asked to build/install/dogfood') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrasing users would say — 'proving in the real product' and 'build/install/dogfood the local binaries' — with 'dogfood' as a genuine natural term; a few common synonyms are missing so it is just below comprehensive.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche — Codewhale runtime dogfooding and local-binary install — with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk against unrelated skills.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

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Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

relative_links

Relative link issues: 6 suspicious

Warning

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 2 missing, 2 deeper-than-1-level

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
Hmbown/Codewhale
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