venue-templates

Prepare journal manuscripts, conference papers, research posters, and grant documents using venue-specific formatting guidance and bundled LaTeX scaffolds. Use when selecting an official template, checking current page or anonymity rules, adapting academic writing to a venue, or inspecting a submission PDF.

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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.

The body is a well-structured, verification-first guide with concrete executable helper commands and clear reference routing, supported by a complete, real bundle. Its main weaknesses are verbosity from redundant currency warnings and inlined workflows, plus an implicit rather than explicit validation retry loop.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated currency/verification mandates into the single 'Mandatory Currency Rule' section and have later sections reference it, to reduce token redundancy.

Make the validate-fix-retry feedback loop explicit in the validation step (e.g., 'If validation fails, fix and re-run until it passes before proceeding').

Move the detailed Common Workflows into the relevant reference files, leaving the SKILL.md as a concise overview that links out, to sharpen the overview/detail separation.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is well-organized but lengthy for a skill overview, repeating the currency/verification mandate across the Mandatory Currency Rule, workflow, and Final Compliance Checklist, and inlining several full multi-step procedures that assume knowledge Claude already has. It is mostly efficient yet has several padded/redundant sections that could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	It provides concrete, executable bash commands for all three helper scripts (query_template.py, customize_template.py, validate_format.py) with real flags and example values, plus a copy-paste compliance-note block. Minor gaps: some commands depend on external downloads not shown, keeping it just below fully copy-paste-ready.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The Verification-First Workflow is a clearly numbered five-step process with explicit checkpoints (record source URL + date, distinguish stages) and a validation step, and the four Common Workflows are well-sequenced with checklists. It does not reach 5 because the validation feedback loop (fail -> fix -> re-verify) is implied rather than an explicit retry cycle.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Structure is strong: an overview table maps each need to a specific one-level-deep reference file, and bundled assets are listed by status in clearly signaled tables; all referenced files (references/.md, scripts/.py, assets/**) exist. It falls short of 5 because the SKILL.md itself still inlines several full workflow sections that could live in references, slightly blurring the overview/detail split.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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The description is clear, concise, third-person, and explicitly answers both what the skill does and when to use it, with strong natural trigger phrases. Its only weakness is modest breadth of distinctiveness given the PDF-inspection overlap.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists four concrete document types (journal manuscripts, conference papers, research posters, grant documents) and specific actions (selecting template, checking page/anonymity rules, inspecting PDF), with minor gaps in coverage. It does not reach 5 because the actions are framed at a moderate granularity rather than a comprehensive enumerated action list.	4 / 5
Completeness	It explicitly answers both 'what' (prepare manuscripts/papers/posters/grants with venue-specific formatting and LaTeX scaffolds) and 'when' (an explicit 'Use when...' clause with concrete triggers). Matches the 5-anchor example structure directly.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	The 'Use when' clause covers natural phrases users would say — 'selecting an official template', 'checking current page or anonymity rules', 'adapting academic writing', 'inspecting a submission PDF' — including synonyms and domain variants. This is comprehensive coverage of natural trigger terms.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The venue/publication niche is fairly distinct and unlikely to trigger for unrelated skills, but 'inspecting a submission PDF' and 'adapting academic writing' have minor overlap with general PDF or writing skills. It sits above 3 (mostly distinct) but the PDF-inspection angle keeps it just short of a clear-niche 5.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

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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

Criteria	Description	Result
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 9 deeper-than-1-level	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Path: skills/venue-templates/SKILL.md
Commit: 1e5eeff

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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