Fetches Zig language and standard library documentation via CLI. Activates when needing Zig API details, std lib function signatures, or language reference content that isn't covered in zig-best-practices.
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Does it follow best practices?
Impact
72%
1.50xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Advisory
Suggest reviewing before use
Quality
Discovery
89%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a well-crafted description that clearly identifies its niche (Zig documentation retrieval), provides explicit activation triggers, and proactively distinguishes itself from a related skill. The main weakness is that the 'what' portion could be more specific about the concrete actions it performs beyond the general 'fetches documentation'.
Suggestions
Expand the capability list with more specific actions, e.g., 'Fetches Zig language and standard library documentation via CLI, including function signatures, type definitions, module overviews, and language reference sections.'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (Zig language documentation) and the general action (fetches documentation via CLI), but doesn't list multiple specific concrete actions like 'look up function signatures, retrieve module docs, search language reference'. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (fetches Zig language and standard library documentation via CLI) and 'when' (activates when needing Zig API details, std lib function signatures, or language reference content), with an explicit scope boundary distinguishing it from zig-best-practices. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes strong natural trigger terms: 'Zig', 'standard library', 'API details', 'std lib function signatures', 'language reference'. These are terms a user would naturally use when seeking Zig documentation help. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Clearly scoped to Zig documentation fetching specifically, and explicitly differentiates itself from the related 'zig-best-practices' skill, making it highly distinctive and unlikely to conflict. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a strong, highly actionable skill that provides concrete, executable commands for fetching Zig documentation from multiple sources. Its main strength is the comprehensive coverage of URL patterns, module paths, and search techniques with copy-paste-ready commands. Minor weaknesses include some redundancy between sections and a length that could benefit from splitting reference tables into a separate file.
Suggestions
Consider moving the Common Module Paths table to a separate MODULES.md reference file to reduce the main skill's length and improve progressive disclosure.
Remove the duplicate URL patterns that appear both in the examples and the Documentation Sources table to tighten conciseness.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is mostly efficient but includes some redundancy—the common modules table partially duplicates the curl examples above it, and the documentation sources table restates URL patterns already shown. The troubleshooting section is useful but could be tighter. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Every section provides concrete, copy-paste-ready commands with specific URLs, flags, and pipe patterns. The curl, pandoc, grep, and jq commands are fully executable and cover the main use cases comprehensively. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | This is essentially a reference/lookup skill rather than a multi-step destructive workflow, so explicit validation checkpoints aren't required. The single-task actions are unambiguous, and the troubleshooting section provides clear fallback paths when primary approaches fail. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is well-structured with clear section headers and tables for quick scanning, but it's somewhat long for a single file. The common module paths table and documentation sources table could potentially be split into a reference file, though the inline approach is still navigable. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |
Validation
100%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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