laravel-specialist

Build and configure Laravel 10+ applications, including creating Eloquent models and relationships, implementing Sanctum authentication, configuring Horizon queues, designing RESTful APIs with API resources, and building reactive interfaces with Livewire. Use when creating Laravel models, setting up queue workers, implementing Sanctum auth flows, building Livewire components, optimising Eloquent queries, or writing Pest/PHPUnit tests for Laravel features.

Quality

88%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a solid, well-structured Laravel skill with excellent actionability through complete code templates and clear workflow with validation checkpoints. Its main weaknesses are moderate verbosity (some unnecessary framing and restating of known best practices) and heavy inline content that could benefit from being split into referenced files. The progressive disclosure structure is well-designed but unverifiable without bundle files.

Suggestions

Remove the introductory line ('Senior Laravel specialist with deep expertise...') and trim the MUST/MUST NOT constraints to only non-obvious, Laravel-specific guidance that Claude wouldn't already know.

Consider moving the code templates into a referenced file (e.g., `references/templates.md`) to keep the main SKILL.md as a concise overview, improving progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The skill is reasonably well-structured but includes some unnecessary framing ('Senior Laravel specialist with deep expertise...') and the constraints section restates best practices Claude already knows (e.g., 'don't use raw queries without protection', 'follow PSR-12'). The code templates are extensive and could be trimmed, though they do provide concrete value.	2 / 3
Actionability	Excellent actionability with fully executable, copy-paste-ready code templates for models, migrations, API resources, queued jobs, and Pest tests. Specific artisan commands are provided at each stage, and the code examples are complete and realistic.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The core workflow is clearly sequenced with numbered steps, each including specific validation commands. The validation checkpoints table provides explicit commands and expected results at each stage, creating clear feedback loops (e.g., migrate then check status, implement then test with coverage threshold).	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The reference table pointing to `references/eloquent.md`, `references/routing.md`, etc. is well-structured with clear 'Load When' guidance. However, no bundle files were provided, so these references are unverifiable. Additionally, the main SKILL.md is quite long with extensive inline code templates that could arguably be split into reference files, making the overview heavier than ideal.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is an excellent skill description that covers all evaluation dimensions strongly. It provides specific concrete actions, includes a comprehensive set of natural trigger terms that Laravel developers would use, explicitly states both what the skill does and when to use it, and is highly distinctive due to its Laravel-specific terminology.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple specific concrete actions: creating Eloquent models and relationships, implementing Sanctum authentication, configuring Horizon queues, designing RESTful APIs with API resources, and building reactive interfaces with Livewire.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both 'what' (build and configure Laravel applications with specific subsystems) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when...' clause listing six distinct trigger scenarios.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Excellent coverage of natural terms a user would say: 'Laravel', 'Eloquent', 'Sanctum', 'Horizon', 'Livewire', 'queue workers', 'API resources', 'Pest', 'PHPUnit', 'models', 'auth flows'. These are all terms Laravel developers naturally use.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Highly distinctive with Laravel-specific terminology (Eloquent, Sanctum, Horizon, Livewire, Pest) that clearly distinguishes it from generic PHP, web framework, or other language skills. Very unlikely to conflict with non-Laravel skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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 — 11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository: Jeffallan/claude-skills
Commit: e8be415

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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