writing-humanities

Use when writing humanities or social science papers - provides discipline-specific writing guidance

Quality

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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 skill offers concrete, actionable, well-sequenced guidance with a validation checklist, but it is a monolithic single file that re-explains some general academic-writing concepts Claude already knows and does not offload detail into reference files.

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Trim general concepts Claude already knows (basic thesis/evidence/argument definitions, the IMRAD contrast) and keep only humanities-specific guidance to improve conciseness.

Move the detailed citation-format examples and phrasing tables into a references/ file linked from the body to enable true progressive disclosure.

Consider adding a brief worked example (e.g., one short paragraph showing objective academic phrasing applied) to make the style guidance even more directly actionable.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Most of the content is concrete, discipline-specific guidance (citation formats, academic phrasing, checklists), but general academic-writing concepts like thesis/evidence/argument and the IMRAD comparison are things Claude already knows, so it could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	As an instruction-only skill it gives concrete, copy-paste-ready guidance: real citation-format examples, ✅/❌ phrasing pairs, named argument structures with flow diagrams, and a usable quality checklist, which satisfies actionable guidance without code.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The 章节写作指南 sequences the paper-writing process (绪论 → 文献综述 → 正文 → 结论) and the 六、质量检查清单 provides an explicit validation checklist at the end, matching the anchor for a clear sequence with checklists.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body is a single ~150-line file with no bundle references; it is well-sectioned but detailed reference-like material (citation formats, extensive phrasing tables) lives inline rather than being split into one-level-deep reference files.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

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, uses an explicit 'Use when' trigger, and carves out a clear niche, though it describes only one broad action rather than enumerating several concrete capabilities.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain ('humanities or social science papers') and a single broad action ('provides discipline-specific writing guidance'), but does not list multiple concrete capabilities, matching the anchor for naming a domain and some actions without being comprehensive.	2 / 3
Completeness	It explicitly answers both 'what' ('provides discipline-specific writing guidance') and 'when' via an explicit 'Use when writing humanities or social science papers' clause, so it is not capped at 2.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Phrases like 'writing humanities or social science papers' are natural terms a user would actually say, giving good coverage of likely trigger language.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The humanities/social-science-papers niche is specific and distinct, with triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, so conflict risk is low.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: Norman-bury/research-writing-skill
Path: skills/writing-humanities/SKILL.md
Commit: 6f79595

Reviewed: 10 days ago

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