writing-law

Use when writing law papers - provides legal writing conventions, citation formats, and argumentation guidance

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Quality

Content

65%Weight 40%Scale 1-3

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 concrete citation formats and templates, but it carries some redundant explanation of known concepts, lacks validation checkpoints in its workflows, and is monolithic with no progressive file split. Targeting these three areas would lift the score.

Suggestions

Trim the 法学-vs-一般文科 comparison table and the '常用法学表达' phrase list, which restate knowledge Claude already has, to improve conciseness.

Add explicit validation checkpoints to the writing workflow (e.g., 'verify each citation matches the handbook format before finalizing') to support the feedback-loop dimension.

Move the citation-format catalog into a references/ file (e.g. CITATION_FORMATS.md) and link to it from the body, so SKILL.md becomes a lean overview with one-level-deep references.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient reference material (citation formats, structure templates) that Claude may not know precisely, but the comparison table and the '常用法学表达' phrase list restate concepts Claude already knows, so it could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready citation examples (著作/期刊/法律文件/案例/外文), explicit structure templates, and step-numbered method sequences — specific and executable rather than abstract.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Sequences are present (规范分析法 1-6, 案例分析法 1-5) and a checklist exists, but there are no explicit validation/verification checkpoints or error-feedback loops in the writing process, capping clarity at 2.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The skill is a well-organized single file with clear section headers, but it exceeds 50 lines as a monolithic document with no bundle files and no split-out references, so it does not reach the 3 anchor for well-signaled one-level-deep disclosure.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 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 well-formed with an explicit trigger and a clear niche, but the capability list reads as categories rather than concrete actions and omits common phrasing variants. Strengthening specificity and trigger coverage would raise it further.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and three capability categories ('legal writing conventions, citation formats, and argumentation guidance'), but 'provides...guidance' is abstract rather than a list of concrete executable actions, so it sits at anchor 2 rather than 3.	2 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('provides legal writing conventions, citation formats, and argumentation guidance') and when ('Use when writing law papers') with an explicit trigger clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	'Use when writing law papers' is a natural user phrase, but it lacks common variations such as 'legal writing', 'law review', 'legal paper', or '法学论文', so coverage is partial (anchor 2).	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The legal-writing niche has distinct triggers and is unlikely to fire for unrelated skills; it is clearly distinguishable from general academic-writing helpers.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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

Reviewed: 10 days ago

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