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Create a modern dark-mode technical design system with matte-black surfaces, emerald signal accents, mono system labeling, framed dashboard cards, and restrained glow.

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SKILL.md
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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 concise, well-sectioned style direction with a distinctive and specific visual vocabulary, and its Avoid/Tuning-knobs sections are genuinely useful. Its main weaknesses are an entirely empty Workflow section, no concrete design tokens (colors, fonts, measurements) or examples that would make the guidance executable, and a verbatim-duplicated Use When line.

Suggestions

Fill in or remove the empty "## Workflow" section — give a rough application order (e.g., base surfaces and background framing → layout/module grid → typography and mono labeling → green accents and glow → motion) so the skill has an actual sequence.

Add concrete tokens or a small example snippet: hex values for the near-black surfaces and emerald accent, a sans/mono font pairing, and border/spacing values, so guidance is executable rather than purely descriptive.

Drop the "## Use When" section that repeats the frontmatter description verbatim (or fold it into Scope) to eliminate redundant tokens.

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Conciseness

Quotes: "Cards should look premium and modern: dark glass or matte shells, thin gradient borders, soft inner glow..." — the body is a lean list of terse directives with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. Not 5 because tokens don't fully earn their place: the "## Use When" section repeats the frontmatter description verbatim, and the "## Workflow" section is completely empty. Not 3 because there is no padded or unnecessary explanation beyond those two structural redundancies.

4 / 5

Actionability

Quotes: "Let green accents appear in status dots, progress fills, corner markers, subtle gradients, active borders, graph highlights" — placements are concretely enumerated, so guidance is more than high-level hints. However, no executable specifics are given: no color values (hex for the matte-black surfaces or emerald accent), no font pairings, no spacing/border measurements, no code snippets. This matches anchor 3 ("Some concrete guidance but incomplete... missing key details") rather than 4 ("mostly executable guidance with concrete code or commands"), and not 2 because the direction is far more specific than generic hints.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Quotes: "## Workflow" — the section dedicated to the process is empty; there are no steps and no sequence for applying the design system. The remaining sections (Scope → Visual target → Implementation guidance → Recommended patterns → Tuning knobs → Avoid) give a rough thematic order but many gaps, no checkpoints, and no validation of the visual result (e.g., contrast or glow checks). Matches anchor 2 ("Rough sequence present but many gaps; steps poorly defined") better than anchor 1 because the sections still imply an order of application; not 3 because a titled Workflow section exists with nothing in it.

2 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is under 50 lines with no bundle files (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent) and no external references are needed, and content is organized into clearly labeled sections (Scope, Visual target, Implementation guidance, Recommended patterns, Tuning knobs, Avoid). Per the rubric's simple-skill guideline this can reach 5 with well-organized sections, but the empty "## Workflow" heading and the verbatim-duplicated "Use When" line are minor organization gaps, placing it at anchor 4 ("Good structure; most content is appropriately placed... minor organization gaps").

4 / 5

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Description

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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 concise and paints a specific, distinctive visual niche, but it reads as a style brief rather than a capability description. It lacks any 'Use when...' trigger clause, which caps completeness and weakens discoverability, and it names only one action ("Create") supported by noun-phrase styling attributes.

Suggestions

Append an explicit trigger clause, e.g.: "Use when the user asks for a dark, technical/operational dashboard aesthetic, a dark-mode design system with green accents, or a premium instrument-panel look."

Include natural synonyms users would actually say — "dark theme", "terminal aesthetic", "tech dashboard UI" — to broaden trigger-term coverage beyond the current keywords.

Frame the attributes as capabilities or deliverables (e.g., "builds surface/color/typography/motion tokens for...") so more than one concrete action is named.

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Specificity

Quotes: "Create a modern dark-mode technical design system with matte-black surfaces, emerald signal accents, mono system labeling, framed dashboard cards, and restrained glow." The domain (dark-mode technical design system) is named with several concrete visual attributes (matte-black surfaces, emerald accents, mono labeling, framed dashboard cards), but only one actual action verb ("Create"). This matches anchor 3 ("Names domain and 1-2 concrete actions, but not comprehensive") better than anchor 4 ("Lists several specific actions") because the noun-phrase modifiers describe the artifact's look, not distinct capabilities the skill performs. Not anchor 2 because the attributes are specific, not generic.

3 / 5

Completeness

The "what" is clear ("Create a modern dark-mode technical design system with matte-black surfaces, emerald signal accents..."), but there is no "Use when..." clause or any equivalent trigger guidance in the description. Per the judging guidelines, a missing 'Use when...' clause caps completeness at 3 ("Has a clear 'what' but 'when' is missing or only weakly implied"). Not 4 because the 'when' is entirely absent, not merely under-specified.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Quotes: "dark-mode", "design system", "dashboard cards", "emerald signal accents". These are terms a user would plausibly say when asking for this aesthetic ("make it dark mode", "build a dashboard", "tech-green design system"), giving good keyword coverage. Not 5 because natural synonyms like "dark theme", "terminal/hacker style", "dark UI" are absent; not 3 because the core phrases users would actually utter are present.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Quotes: "matte-black surfaces, emerald signal accents, mono system labeling, framed dashboard cards, and restrained glow" — a distinct aesthetic niche with specific triggers (dark-mode, emerald/tech-green, dashboard). Mostly distinct; not 5 because it could overlap with other dark-mode or dashboard design-system skills that share the "dark-mode", "design system", and "dashboard" triggers; not 3 because the emerald/mono/matte-black qualifiers separate it from generic dark-mode skills.

4 / 5

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