boil

Activates Standard of Excellence enforcement for the current session. Load before starting any task to apply completion standards: finish the whole thing, fix the root cause, ship the complete working result. Blocks partial solutions, workarounds, deferred threads, and invented content limits when the permanent solve is within reach. Triggers: 'do the whole thing', 'boil the ocean', 'standard of excellence', 'finish it completely', before starting any implementation, refactoring, or multi-step task where partial output is a risk. Does NOT apply to: read-only queries, one-line typo fixes, pure knowledge questions, or single-output summarize requests.

Quality

92%

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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.

A well-organized instructional skill body: concise overview with a decision-flow workflow, concrete templates and anti-patterns, and a clean one-level reference structure. Only minor aphoristic padding keeps conciseness from a perfect score.

Suggestions

Trim the motivational aphorisms in 'The Standard' (e.g. 'The marginal cost of completeness is near zero' and 'Time, fatigue, and complexity are not valid reasons to stop short') to tight imperatives for a small conciseness gain.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly lean, using tables, a flowchart, and short rules rather than padding; a few aphoristic lines ('The marginal cost of completeness is near zero', 'Time, fatigue, and complexity are not valid reasons to stop short') could be trimmed without losing guidance.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides copy-paste-ready material: a BLOCKED declaration template to copy verbatim, a prohibited-exits table with concrete examples ('content[:500]', 'MAX_LEN = 1024'), and WRONG/RIGHT anti-pattern pairs covering the common failure cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The mermaid flowchart sequences steps with explicit decision checkpoints (P1/P2/E1/E2/E3/C1/C2), a feedback loop (C2 -> P1 on an open thread), and a 5-question checklist — explicit validation steps plus error-recovery loop.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Body is an overview pointing to three reference files and two asset templates, all one level deep and clearly signaled with markdown links; all five referenced paths were verified to exist and content is appropriately split.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 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.

A strong, third-person description that cleanly separates what the skill does, when to invoke it, and when not to. Trigger coverage is good if slightly reliant on one branded phrase. Voice is correct throughout with no first/second-person slip.

Suggestions

Add a couple more natural trigger variants users might say unprompted (e.g. 'do it properly', 'don't stop halfway', 'complete it') to broaden trigger_term_quality beyond the branded 'standard of excellence'.

Consider trimming 'standard of excellence' from the Triggers list or pairing it with a plainer synonym, since it functions more as the skill's name than a phrase a user would naturally type.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions both positive ('finish the whole thing', 'fix the root cause', 'ship the complete working result') and prohibitive ('Blocks partial solutions, workarounds, deferred threads, and invented content limits'), giving comprehensive coverage for a behavioral-enforcement skill.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers what ('Activates Standard of Excellence enforcement...apply completion standards'), when ('Triggers: ... before starting any implementation, refactoring, or multi-step task'), and when not ('Does NOT apply to: read-only queries, one-line typo fixes...').	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes several natural phrases users would say ('do the whole thing', 'boil the ocean', 'finish it completely'), though 'standard of excellence' reads more as a skill name than a spontaneous utterance and a few natural variants are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche ('Standard of Excellence enforcement') with a distinctive trigger ('boil the ocean') and an explicit boundary clause, keeping conflict risk minimal.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
allowed_tools_field	'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills
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Commit: a75f11f

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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