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ascii-video

ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF.

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Quality

76%

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

85%

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

The body is a strong, actionable skill overview with an executable pipeline, clear workflow checkpoints, and exemplary one-level-deep reference structure; its main weakness is philosophical manifesto prose that competes with instructional content.

Suggestions

Trim motivational/manifesto passages (e.g., 'the catalog is vocabulary — you write the poem') to instructional essentials to improve token efficiency.

Consider moving the lengthy aesthetic-dimension tables or creative-divergence section into a reference file if they are only needed for advanced projects.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense and mostly earns its tokens via tables, pipeline specs, and executable code, but recurring motivational prose ('ASCII characters are the medium; cinema is the standard', 'you write the poem') adds padding Claude does not need.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable guidance: a complete tonemap() function, a 6-stage pipeline, per-component ms budgets, and a concrete brightness check (canvas.mean() > 8) with remediation.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced 4-step workflow (Creative Vision → Technical Design → Build → Quality Verification) with explicit validation checkpoints in Step 4 and a feedback loop ('if it looks generic, go back').

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md is a well-signaled overview with a References table mapping each of 8 real files to contents and section pointers; references are exactly one level deep and all referenced paths exist on disk.

3 / 3

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12

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Description

67%

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 specific and distinct, naming concrete inputs, medium, and output formats, but it omits an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause and a fuller spread of natural trigger terms that would push it to the top level.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause listing natural triggers (e.g., 'Use when converting video to ASCII art, making terminal-style or matrix-style ASCII video, or building audio-reactive text visualizers').

Broaden trigger terms to match common phrasings users actually say, such as 'text art video', 'ASCII animation', and 'terminal video'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions and specifics: 'convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF' names inputs, the colored ASCII medium, and dual output formats. It is concise but covers more than a single generic action.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers 'what' (convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF) but lacks any explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, so 'when' is only implied — the rubric caps this at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes relevant natural terms ('ASCII video', 'video/audio', 'ASCII MP4/GIF') but misses common user variations like 'text art', 'terminal video', or 'ASCII art animation' that the body itself lists.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'ASCII video' denotes a clear, narrow niche with distinct triggers that would not plausibly fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

10

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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

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
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