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zig-best-practices

Provides Zig patterns for type-first development with tagged unions, explicit error sets, comptime validation, and memory management. Must use when reading or writing Zig files.

82

1.13x
Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

94%

1.13x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

65%

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

A well-organized, highly actionable Zig best-practices reference with strong executable examples. It loses points for cross-section redundancy, a workflow lacking feedback loops, and references to bundle files that do not exist.

Suggestions

Deduplicate patterns shown in multiple sections (e.g., comptime validation, explicit error sets, anytype guidance) so each appears once, cross-referencing instead of repeating.

Either provide the referenced GENERICS.md, C-INTEROP.md, and DEBUGGING.md bundle files or remove the dead Advanced Topics links, so progressive-disclosure references resolve to real content.

Add an explicit validation/feedback step to the Type-First Development workflow (e.g., "if comptime validation fails, fix the type constraint and recompile") to strengthen workflow clarity.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient code and concrete bullets, but patterns recur across sections (comptime validation appears in both Type-First Development and Comptime Patterns; error sets and anytype guidance are repeated), so not every token earns its place.

2 / 3

Actionability

It provides extensive concrete, executable Zig examples (arena allocators, scoped logging, typed config loader, leak-detecting tests) with specific, copy-oriented guidance throughout.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The Type-First Development section gives a clear four-step sequence with a comptime validation step, but no explicit error-recovery feedback loops or checkpoints are described for the workflow.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The ~440-line file is largely monolithic with pattern content that could be split out, and its Advanced Topics references to GENERICS.md, C-INTEROP.md, and DEBUGGING.md point to files absent from the bundle.

2 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Description

85%

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, specific, third-person description that clearly states capabilities and an explicit use-when trigger. Its main weakness is limited trigger-term variation, relying on a single "Zig files" phrase.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete capabilities — "tagged unions, explicit error sets, comptime validation, and memory management" — naming the domain and several specific techniques rather than vague actions.

3 / 3

Completeness

It answers both what ("Provides Zig patterns for type-first development with...") and when via the explicit trigger "Must use when reading or writing Zig files," satisfying the 'Use when' requirement.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

It includes the natural trigger "reading or writing Zig files" but offers only a single keyword variation, missing common forms like ".zig", "Zig code", or "Zig programs".

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It is tightly scoped to Zig with a distinct trigger ("reading or writing Zig files"), making conflict with other skills unlikely.

3 / 3

Total

11

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12

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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

relative_links

Relative link issues: 3 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

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