creative-ideation

Generate ideas via named methods from creative practice.

Quality

75%

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Quality

Content

100%

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

The content is a tightly written, highly actionable routing system: clear multi-step workflow with validation checkpoints and excellent progressive disclosure into verified bundle files, with no wasted tokens.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and efficient — terse rules, compact routing tables, and no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every line earns its place.	3 / 3
Actionability	Concrete routing tables, real per-method file paths, explicit override rules, and a copy-ready output format template give fully executable, specific guidance.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clearly sequenced 4-step routing procedure is paired with an anti-default validation checkpoint before generating and a "routing failed, redo" feedback loop for error recovery.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	A concise overview points to well-signaled one-level-deep references (verified real files: references/methods/*.md, full-prompt-library.md, anti-slop.md, heuristics.md, exercises.md) with a clear file map and load-only-what-you-need guidance.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

50%

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 and third-person, naming a clear action and domain, but it omits any explicit when-to-use trigger guidance and offers only one action verb with thin keyword coverage.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when the user asks to brainstorm, wants ideas, is stuck, or asks to make something weirder or less obvious."

Broaden trigger-term coverage with natural variations users actually say (brainstorm, inspire me, stuck, make it weirder, help me pick).

List a second concrete capability (e.g. routing to a matching creative method) to strengthen specificity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names a concrete action ("Generate ideas") and the domain ("creative practice") via "named methods", but lists only one action rather than a comprehensive set of concrete capabilities.	2 / 3
Completeness	It states what the skill does, but provides no explicit "Use when..." trigger clause, so the when is only implied — capping completeness at 2 per the guidelines.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"Generate ideas" is a natural keyword a user might say, but coverage is thin with no common variations such as brainstorm, inspire me, or stuck.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The "named methods from creative practice" framing gives it a niche, but without trigger context it could still overlap with generic brainstorming skills.	2 / 3
	Total	8 / 12 Passed

Validation

75%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 12 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 28 deeper-than-1-level	Warning

	Total	12 / 16 Passed

Repository: NousResearch/hermes-agent
Path: optional-skills/creative/creative-ideation/SKILL.md
Commit: 4c9628e

Reviewed: about 15 hours ago

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