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creative-ideation

Generate ideas via named methods from creative practice.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

78%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A well-structured routing skill: concrete decision tables, explicit overrides, a validation checkpoint, and a clean file split with a working file map. The main gaps are a lack of a filled worked example and slightly subjective validation wording.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense and assumes Claude's competence — routing tables, overrides, and an output template carry most of the weight — with only minor motivational padding ('you've defeated the skill', 'routing failures produce slop') that could be trimmed, so it sits above the 3 anchor but not at the every-token-earns-its-place 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete routing tables map phase/domain/specificity to specific method file paths, override rules fire on explicit cues, and there is a copy-paste output template — but the template uses placeholders ([Name], [One-line pitch]) and no fully filled worked example, leaving it just short of the 5 anchor.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced 4-step routing procedure with an explicit 'Anti-default check (run before generating)' checkpoint and a redo loop ('routing failed, redo'); not a destructive/batch op so no cap applies, but the validation is subjective ('looks like what an unrouted LLM would produce') rather than programmatic, holding it at 4 instead of 5.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md is an overview with a dedicated File Map; 22 method files and the prompt library are split into one-level-deep references (references/ and references/methods/), all referenced paths verified to exist, and navigation is easy — matching the 5 anchor; it is not the nested-reference-chain anti-pattern of the 1 anchor.

5 / 5

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Description

42%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 states a clear purpose but is thin: a single action, almost no natural trigger keywords, and no 'when to use' clause. It names a niche (named creative methods) but doesn't surface the rich trigger language that the skill body actually contains.

Suggestions

Add a 'Use when...' clause with the natural trigger phrases already in the body ('I'm stuck', 'inspire me', 'make this weirder', 'help me pick', 'give me a research question').

List 2-3 more concrete actions to lift specificity (e.g., 'route open-ended requests to a named creative method, generate specific non-obvious ideas, refuse first-order slop').

Include natural synonyms and file-type cues (brainstorming, ideation, lateral thinking) to improve trigger-term coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('creative practice') and one concrete action ('Generate ideas via named methods'), but stops at a single action rather than listing several — closer to the 3 anchor than the multi-action 4 anchor.

3 / 5

Completeness

A clear 'what' is present ('Generate ideas via named methods from creative practice') but there is no 'when' / 'Use when...' clause, which per the rubric caps completeness at 3; it is not a 4 because the trigger guidance is entirely missing.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Only 'ideas' and 'creative' appear as keywords; natural phrases users actually say ('brainstorm', 'I'm stuck', 'inspire me', 'make this weirder') are absent even though they appear in the body's 'When to use' section.

2 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'named methods from creative practice' gives it a distinct niche over generic ideation, but the phrasing is still broad enough to overlap with general brainstorming skills, so it sits at 3 rather than the clearly-niched 4.

3 / 5

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20

Passed

Validation

75%

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

Validation12 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

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

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16

Passed

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