excalidraw

Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq).

Quality

78%

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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 body is lean, highly actionable, and well-structured: it gives complete JSON templates, concrete commands, a clear workflow, and offloads detail to verified one-level-deep reference files.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is dense with Excalidraw-specific JSON details (container binding, fixedPoint coordinates, z-order, sizing) Claude does not already know, with no padding explaining what diagrams or libraries are, matching the 'lean and efficient; every token earns its place' anchor.	3 / 3
Actionability	It provides complete, copy-paste-ready element JSON templates and concrete commands like "python skills/diagramming/excalidraw/scripts/upload.py ~/diagrams/my_diagram.excalidraw", matching the 'fully executable code/commands; copy-paste ready' anchor.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The Workflow section sequences write → save with write_file → optionally upload, and the simple-skill scoring note permits a 3 when the single task is unambiguous; diagram generation is not a destructive/batch operation requiring validation feedback loops.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Detailed material is split into clearly signaled one-level-deep references ("See references/colors.md", "see references/dark-mode.md", "see references/examples.md", scripts/upload.py), all of which exist on disk, matching the 'clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references' anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

57%

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 distinctive and names a concrete niche, but it is a terse noun phrase lacking explicit action verbs and any 'Use when…' trigger guidance, capping completeness and trigger coverage at 2.

Suggestions

Add explicit action verbs, e.g. 'Create and save hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams…'.

Append a 'Use when…' trigger clause naming user-facing terms like 'architecture, flowchart, or sequence diagrams'.

Spell out the abbreviated 'arch, flow, seq' as 'architecture, flowcharts, sequence diagrams' to match natural user phrasing.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq)" names the domain and concrete diagram types but uses no action verbs (create/write/save), matching the 'names domain and some actions, but not comprehensive' anchor rather than the multi-action list required for 3.	2 / 3
Completeness	The description clearly states what the skill produces but has no 'Use when…' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, and the rubric explicitly caps completeness at 2 when that is missing.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"Excalidraw" and "diagrams" are natural user terms, but the abbreviated "arch, flow, seq" miss common full-word variations (architecture, flowchart, sequence) a user would actually say, fitting 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations' rather than full coverage.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	"Excalidraw" is a specific named tool giving a clear, distinct niche unlikely to trigger for other skills, matching the 'clear niche with distinct triggers' anchor rather than the generic-overlap anchor at 2.	3 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

Validation

81%

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

Validation — 13 / 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

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: NousResearch/hermes-agent
Path: skills/creative/excalidraw/SKILL.md
Commit: 5be99b6

Reviewed: about 15 hours ago

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