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Debugging techniques and tools for IntelliJ development. Use when debugging IDE issues or investigating failures.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

80%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 tight, executable, and well-structured with concrete grep patterns and a real category-format example. The main gap is workflow_clarity: the debugging workflow lists steps but lacks an explicit validation/feedback checkpoint.

Suggestions

Add an explicit verification checkpoint to the End-to-End workflow (e.g., 'Confirm the fix reproduces the expected log lines at the entry point before closing') and a feedback loop ('If behavior unchanged, re-trace earlier layers').

Consider listing 1-2 concrete debugging actions in the description (e.g., searching idea.log, tracing execution chains) to lift specificity.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean with executable grep snippets and a concrete category-format example; the log-level mapping (FINE/INFO) is IntelliJ-specific knowledge Claude likely lacks, so it earns its place, though the section is slightly more explanatory than a pure 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Copy-paste-ready grep commands, an exact category-format rule with a worked class-to-abbreviation example, and concrete numbered debugging steps fully cover the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The End-to-End section lists a clear 4-step sequence, but verification is implicit ('Verify the fix at the entry point') with no explicit checkpoint or feedback loop; debugging is investigative rather than destructive, so the destructive cap does not apply, but missing explicit validation keeps it at 3.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A short (~45 line), well-organized skill with clear section headers and one-level-deep links to external docs; as a simple single-purpose skill under 50 lines with no bundle files needed, well-organized sections satisfy the top anchor.

5 / 5

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Description

70%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 cleanly answers both what and when in third person with natural trigger terms, well-scoped to IntelliJ. Main weakness is that the capability list ('techniques and tools') is generic rather than enumerating concrete debugging actions.

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Specificity

Phrases 'Debugging techniques and tools' and 'for IntelliJ development' name the domain and 1-2 actions, but the actions remain generic ('techniques and tools') without enumerating concrete capabilities; not a 4 because no several specific actions are listed.

3 / 5

Completeness

Clear 'what' (debugging techniques and tools for IntelliJ) plus an explicit 'Use when debugging IDE issues or investigating failures' clause; the 'when' is concrete but could be more specific to particular failure modes, so not a 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms 'debugging IDE issues' and 'investigating failures' are phrases a user would actually say, with good but not exhaustive coverage; missing common synonyms or file-specific triggers that would warrant a 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped narrowly to IntelliJ/IDE development with distinct triggers, giving a clear niche with only minor overlap risk against a generic 'logging' or 'performance' skill; not a 5 because 'investigating failures' is somewhat broad.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

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Validation15 / 16 Passed

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relative_links

Relative link issues: 3 suspicious

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Total

15

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16

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Repository
JetBrains/MPS
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