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external-pattern-integrator

Integrates patterns from external sources (URLs or local files) into local skills, agents, and plugins. Use when comparing external agent definitions against local equivalents, extracting best practices from frameworks like GSD or BMAD-METHOD, enhancing local skills with external workflow patterns, or adding interoperability with external tool ecosystems. Runs a 3-phase workflow — parallel candidate mapping, contextual enhancement, and validation — with source attribution and backlog tracking for deferred enhancements.

Quality

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Quality

Content

81%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 skill with an explicit multi-phase workflow, validation feedback loop, and success checklist. Its main weaknesses are mild redundancy between the overview tree and phase sections, one under-specified step (backlog item creation via the 'configured backend'), and bulky inline templates that could be split into reference files.

Suggestions

Replace the Workflow Overview ASCII tree with a two-line phase summary — it duplicates the Phase 1/2/3 section headings that immediately follow and costs tokens without adding guidance.

Make Step 3.3 concrete: specify the actual command or API for creating the backlog work item in the configured backend (e.g., a CLI invocation or endpoint), since 'configured development-harness backlog backend' currently gives the executor nothing to run.

Move the large markdown templates (tracking document in Step 1.1, external-artifact section in Step 2.3) into a references/ file and link to them, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is efficient and instruction-only (no concept explanations Claude already knows), but the Workflow Overview ASCII tree duplicates the per-phase section headings that follow it, and the enhancement-type table in Step 2.2 is semi-explanatory. Anchor 4 (efficient, minor instances that could be trimmed) fits better than 5, and better than 3 because there is no padded or unnecessary section.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, copy-adaptable artifacts: exact scratch path template, full tracking-document markdown template, specific scan globs, the lint command `uv run prek run --files {all modified files}`, and a commit message template. Falls short of 5 because Step 3.3 defers to a 'configured development-harness backlog backend' without any concrete command or API for creating the work item — the one step the executor cannot directly act on.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced 3-phase workflow with numbered sub-steps, a dedicated validation phase with a fix-and-retry lint loop ('Fix any issues before proceeding'), coordination rules for cross-file changes, and a final success-criteria checklist. Validation for the batch edit operation is present, so the destructive/batch cap does not apply; anchor 5 (explicit validation, feedback loop, checklist) is the best fit.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist; the single SKILL.md is well-sectioned with clear phase headers and consistent templates. Minor gap: the large inline markdown templates (tracking document in Step 1.1, external-artifact section in Step 2.3) are substantial blocks that could live in reference files to keep the overview lean, placing it at anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Description

88%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 description that explicitly states what it does and when to use it, with a distinctive niche anchored by named frameworks (GSD, BMAD-METHOD) and concrete trigger scenarios written in third person. Trigger-term coverage is good but could add common synonyms such as 'import' or 'port patterns'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete third-person actions — 'Integrates patterns from external sources... into local skills, agents, and plugins', 'comparing external agent definitions against local equivalents', 'extracting best practices', 'adding interoperability' — and enumerates the full 3-phase workflow (mapping, enhancement, validation) with attribution and backlog tracking, giving comprehensive coverage. It fits anchor 5 rather than 4 because the action list covers the skill's entire operation set with no meaningful gaps.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both questions: what ('Integrates patterns from external sources (URLs or local files) into local skills, agents, and plugins... Runs a 3-phase workflow') and when ('Use when comparing external agent definitions... or adding interoperability with external tool ecosystems'). Both are concrete and explicit, matching anchor 5.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Contains several natural trigger phrases users would actually say — 'comparing external agent definitions against local equivalents', 'extracting best practices from frameworks like GSD or BMAD-METHOD', 'enhancing local skills with external workflow patterns'. It falls short of 5 because common variations like 'import', 'port', or 'borrow patterns from another framework' are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche — importing patterns from named external frameworks (GSD, BMAD-METHOD) into local skills/agents/plugins — is clear and distinctive, with only minor overlap risk against generic skill-authoring or skill-improvement skills. Not 5: it could still trigger alongside a general 'improve my skills' request.

4 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills

Path

.claude/skills/external-pattern-integrator/SKILL.md

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