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Create or improve codewhale skills. Use when the user wants a new skill, wants to update an existing skill, or needs guidance on when a skill should be a skill versus MCP, hooks, tools, or a plugin scaffold.

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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.

A well-structured, actionable instruction-only skill body that respects token budget and gives a clear creation workflow. Externalizing the discovery-paths and plugin-distribution details into a reference file would lift progressive disclosure and conciseness toward the top anchor.

Suggestions

Move the enumerated discovery-paths list and the plugin-distribution paragraph into a references/ file (e.g. references/discovery-and-plugins.md) and link to it from the body to improve progressive disclosure and conciseness.

Add a one-line concrete example of a worthwhile scripts/ helper (and when not to add one) to close the actionability gap in the Writing Rules.

Make the validation feedback loop explicit in the Creation Workflow (e.g., 'If validation fails, fix and re-run') to reach the top workflow-clarity anchor.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Lean and operational with no filler explaining concepts Claude already knows, though the enumerated discovery-paths list and the plugin-distribution paragraph are minor instances that could be trimmed or externalized.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides a copy-pasteable minimum-shape block, a numbered 7-step Creation Workflow, and a concrete Validation Checklist; minor gap is the lack of an example for when/how to add a scripts/ helper.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The Creation Workflow is a clearly sequenced 7-step process with a sub-decision tree and a validation step, but the validation feedback loop is lighter than an explicit validate->fix->retry pattern.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clearly headed sections and self-contained with no bundle files; the inlined discovery-paths list and plugin-bundle paragraph could plausibly move to a reference, keeping it just below the top anchor.

4 / 5

Total

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20

Passed

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.

A strong, action-oriented description that cleanly states both the capability and the trigger conditions, with a distinct niche. Minor additional trigger synonyms would push specificity and trigger quality to the top anchor.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the codewhale-skills domain and several concrete actions ('Create or improve', 'needs guidance on when a skill should be a skill versus MCP, hooks, tools, or a plugin scaffold'), with only minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Create or improve codewhale skills') and when (a 'Use when...' clause listing concrete triggers), matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural user phrases ('wants a new skill', 'update an existing skill', 'skill versus MCP, hooks, tools, or a plugin scaffold') with good synonym coverage, though a few common variations like 'edit a skill' are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'codewhale skills' niche plus the skill-vs-MCP/hooks/tools/plugin-scaffold framing carves a clear, distinct trigger space with minimal overlap risk.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

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

metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
Hmbown/Codewhale
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