ugc-brief

Create briefs for UGC creators including product info, hook requirements, talking points, and authenticity guidelines. Use when working with UGC creators, preparing creator packages, or scaling content production with external talent.

Quality

88%

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Content

77%

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

The body is highly actionable with a clear sequenced workflow, but it is monolithic — a long inline template plus an appended best-practices section that pads context. Splitting the template into a reference file and trimming generic UGC truisms would lift both weaker dimensions.

Suggestions

Move the ~150-line output brief template into a separate reference file (e.g. references/brief-template.md) and link to it from a concise 'Output format' section, so SKILL.md stays a lean overview.

Cut or compress the 'UGC Best Practices (LeadsIcon/Kamal)' section, which restates widely-known native-vs-polish truisms Claude already knows; keep only any non-obvious brand-specific guidance.

If keeping the template inline, add a short navigation/summary at the top so the structure is scannable without reading the whole template.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The step structure and output template earn their place, but the appended 'UGC Best Practices (LeadsIcon/Kamal)' section restates general knowledge Claude already has ('Audiences smell BS instantly', 'Perfect = ad = skip') and could be trimmed, so it is mostly efficient but padded in places rather than lean.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides a concrete, copy-paste-ready output template with fill-in fields, checkboxes, hook categories, and a structured talking-points flow — concrete specific guidance that is fully actionable, so not the score-2 'pseudocode/incomplete' case.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear five-step sequence (Define Product → Specify Hooks → List Talking Points → Authenticity Guidelines → Output Brief) with explicit checklists; no validation/feedback loop is required because brief generation is neither destructive nor batch, so the score-2 cap for risky operations does not apply.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The skill is a single ~260-line file with a large (~150-line) output template inline and no bundle files or one-level-deep references; it is well-organized into sections but exceeds the under-50-line 'simple skill' exception, so it sits at the score-2 anchor of 'structure present but content that could be separate is inline' rather than the reference-split score-3 case.	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.

The description is strong: concrete capabilities, natural trigger terms, explicit 'Use when...' guidance, and a distinct niche. It cleanly matches the top anchors on every dimension.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions/components — 'product info, hook requirements, talking points, and authenticity guidelines' — matching the anchor for multiple specific concrete actions rather than the single-domain score-2 example.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' ('Create briefs for UGC creators including...') and 'when' ('Use when working with UGC creators, preparing creator packages, or scaling content production...'), matching the score-3 anchor; not the score-2 case where 'when' is only implied.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural domain terms a user would say are present — 'UGC creators', 'creator packages', 'content production' — giving good coverage rather than just one relevant keyword like the score-2 anchor.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	A clear niche (UGC creator briefs) with distinct triggers unlikely to conflict with other skills, matching the score-3 anchor; not generic enough to risk the score-2 overlap.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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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 — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: MODSetter/SurfSense
Path: .cursor/skills/ugc-brief/SKILL.md
Commit: 3b319ce

Reviewed: about 14 hours ago

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