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jira-auth

Authenticate with Jira Cloud REST API using API tokens. Use when setting up Jira connections, validating credentials, or handling rate limiting.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

71%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 highly actionable, with complete executable code, test commands, expected responses, and rate-limit handling. Its weaknesses are repetition across the three language implementations, dangling references to bundle files that are absent, and slightly incoherent step numbering in the implementation pattern.

Suggestions

Split the per-language implementation examples (Node.js, Python, TypeScript) into separate reference files (e.g. references/node.md, references/python.md) and keep only one canonical pattern in SKILL.md to cut duplicated auth-header code.

Ship the referenced files or remove the references: 'node scripts/run.js test' and 'cp .env.example .env' currently point to scripts/ and .env.example that do not exist in the bundle.

Fix the step numbering in 'Implementation Pattern' (there is a 'Step 2' and 'Step 3' but no 'Step 1') and move dated entries like the hardcoded rate-limit table and 'Version History' into a clearly labeled section so time-sensitive values don't masquerade as durable guidance.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly code with no concept over-explanation, but the base64 auth-header construction is repeated across the Node.js, Python, and TypeScript sections, and time-sensitive content (hardcoded 60/minute rate limits, dated 'Version History' entries) sits outside any deprecated/old-patterns section. This fits 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' rather than the minor-trim anchor at 4.

3 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable, copy-paste-ready code in three languages, concrete curl commands with an expected success response, exact env-var names, a token-creation URL, and runnable test-script commands covering the common cases, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear sequence exists with an explicit validation checkpoint ('Step 3: Validate Connection' against /myself plus an expected success response and a 429 retry loop), but the numbering is incoherent — 'Step 2' and 'Step 3' appear with no 'Step 1', and the Node/Python sections sit outside the numbered flow — fitting 'clear sequence with most checkpoints present; minor gaps'.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well-labeled, but the ~255-line body inlines all three language implementations that belong in separate reference files, and it directs readers to 'scripts/run.js' and '.env.example' which do not exist in the bundle, so navigation is not backed by real files. This fits 'some structure but could be better organized; content that should be separate is inline' rather than the well-placed-content anchor at 4.

3 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Description

83%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.

A strong description with a clear what and an explicit, multi-trigger when-clause in third person. Keyword coverage is good and the niche is well-delineated; it falls just short of top marks on coverage of action variants and minor overlap risk with a general Jira skill.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names several concrete actions ('Authenticate with Jira Cloud REST API using API tokens', 'setting up Jira connections', 'validating credentials', 'handling rate limiting') with only minor gaps such as OAuth and token generation, matching the 'several specific actions' anchor rather than the comprehensive-coverage anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Authenticate with Jira Cloud REST API using API tokens') and when with three concrete trigger phrases ('Use when setting up Jira connections, validating credentials, or handling rate limiting'), matching the top anchor rather than the 'when could be more explicit' anchor below it.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms users would say ('Jira', 'API tokens', 'credentials', 'rate limiting', 'Jira connections') but misses common variations like 'Atlassian', 'Jira Cloud' as a standalone trigger, or 'connect to Jira', so it fits 'good keyword coverage; a few natural terms missing'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Jira authentication is a clear niche with distinct triggers, but 'setting up Jira connections' has minor overlap risk with a broader Jira-integration skill (the body even covers OAuth), fitting 'mostly distinct; minor overlap risk'.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

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

CriteriaDescriptionResult

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 3 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

NeverSight/learn-skills.dev

Path

data/skills-md/01000001-01001110/agent-jira-skills/jira-auth/SKILL.md

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