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create-workflow-command

Create a workflow command that orchestrates multi-step execution through sub-agents with file-based task prompts

37

Quality

36%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./plugins/customaize-agent/skills/create-workflow-command/SKILL.md
SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

55%

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

The skill is highly actionable with clear workflows and concrete templates, but suffers severely from verbosity and lack of progressive disclosure. It tries to be a comprehensive reference document rather than a lean skill file, resulting in massive token consumption. The content would benefit enormously from splitting into a concise overview with references to separate files for patterns, examples, and reference tables.

Suggestions

Reduce the main SKILL.md to ~100 lines by moving the full Feature Implementation example, execution patterns (A/B/C), and capability/limitation tables into separate referenced files like PATTERNS.md, EXAMPLES.md, and REFERENCE.md.

Remove explanatory content Claude already knows, such as the 'Context Isolation' section explaining what context windows are and the sub-agent capabilities table—replace with a brief note about key constraints only (no nesting, no skill auto-loading).

Consolidate the task file template and the example task file into a single template with inline comments rather than showing both a generic structure and a full example that repeats the same pattern.

Cut the Architecture Overview section to just the directory tree—the explanation of 'context bloat problem' is unnecessary context for Claude.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is extremely verbose at ~300+ lines. It includes extensive explanations of concepts Claude already understands (what context isolation is, what sub-agents can do, architecture overviews), multiple redundant tables, and a full example workflow that largely repeats the template already shown. The capability table, frontmatter options table, and known limitations table add significant token cost for information that could be much more compact.

1 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides fully concrete, executable guidance: complete directory structures, exact file naming conventions, copy-paste-ready markdown templates for both orchestrator commands and task files, specific frontmatter configurations, and a detailed end-to-end example. Every step has concrete artifacts to produce.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The multi-step process is clearly sequenced (Steps 1-4: Gather Requirements → Create Directory Structure → Create Task Files → Create Orchestrator Command) with a comprehensive validation checklist at the end. The workflow includes explicit patterns for sequential, parallel, and stateful execution, and the checklist serves as a verification checkpoint before finalizing.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Everything is crammed into a single monolithic file with no references to supporting files. The full example workflow (orchestrator + task file) could easily be in a separate EXAMPLES.md. The capability tables, execution patterns, and known limitations could be split into reference files. With no bundle files provided, there's no external structure to support this massive document.

1 / 3

Total

8

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12

Passed

Description

17%

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 overly abstract and jargon-heavy, making it difficult for Claude to determine when to select this skill. It lacks a 'Use when...' clause and natural trigger terms that users would employ. While it hints at a specific orchestration pattern (sub-agents with file-based prompts), the language is too technical and insufficiently concrete to serve as an effective skill selector.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with natural trigger terms, e.g., 'Use when the user wants to break a complex task into multiple steps, run parallel sub-tasks, or create an automated pipeline.'

Include more concrete actions the skill performs, such as 'Creates task definition files, spawns sub-agent processes, collects and merges results, handles error recovery across steps.'

Replace technical jargon with user-facing language: instead of 'file-based task prompts' and 'sub-agents', use terms like 'automated multi-step tasks', 'parallel execution', 'task pipeline', or 'batch workflow'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

It names a domain (workflow orchestration) and describes some actions ('create a workflow command', 'orchestrates multi-step execution'), but the language is fairly abstract and doesn't list multiple concrete actions like creating task files, spawning sub-agents, collecting results, etc.

2 / 3

Completeness

The description addresses 'what' at a high level but completely lacks any 'when' clause or explicit trigger guidance. There is no 'Use when...' or equivalent, which per the rubric should cap completeness at 2, and the 'what' itself is vague enough to warrant a 1.

1 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The description uses technical jargon like 'orchestrates multi-step execution', 'sub-agents', and 'file-based task prompts' which are not natural terms a user would say. Users would more likely say 'run multiple steps', 'automate tasks', 'pipeline', or 'batch processing'.

1 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The mention of 'sub-agents' and 'file-based task prompts' provides some specificity that distinguishes it from generic automation skills, but 'workflow command' and 'multi-step execution' are broad enough to overlap with other orchestration or automation skills.

2 / 3

Total

6

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12

Passed

Validation

81%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation9 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

allowed_tools_field

'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

9

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11

Passed

Repository
NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit
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