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Himalaya CLI: IMAP/SMTP email from terminal.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

87%

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

The skill body is highly actionable and well-structured with real, correctly referenced bundle files and lean executable content. Its main gap is the absence of validation/verification steps for destructive email operations.

Suggestions

Add a verification checkpoint before destructive operations, e.g. confirm the target ID via 'himalaya message read 42' before 'himalaya message delete 42', and note how to recover from a mistaken delete.

For batch moves/copies, include a verify step (re-list the destination folder) so the workflow has an explicit feedback loop.

Optionally surface the alias-syntax gotcha's recovery path (how to detect and fix duplicate sends) as a short checklist under the warning.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean and dominated by executable commands with minimal exposition; the only long prose passage (the folder-alias warning) earns its place as a critical silent-failure gotcha rather than padding.

3 / 3

Actionability

Commands are concrete, complete, and copy-paste ready across list, search, read, reply, forward, write, move, copy, delete, flag, and attachment operations.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Operations are well-sequenced by section, but destructive actions like 'message delete' and batch 'message move' have no validation or verification checkpoint, which caps workflow clarity at 2 per the rubric.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references to real files (references/configuration.md and references/message-composition.md), with configuration and MML detail appropriately split out of SKILL.md.

3 / 3

Total

11

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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 concise and distinct but stays at an abstract capability level. It states what the skill does without explicit usage triggers or a fuller enumeration of concrete email actions.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when sending, reading, replying to, or searching email from the terminal via the himalaya CLI.'

Enumerate concrete actions (read, send, reply, forward, search, move, delete) to lift specificity from 2 to 3.

Include more natural user-facing terms such as 'inbox', 'send email', and 'mail' alongside the existing IMAP/SMTP keywords.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain and medium ('IMAP/SMTP email from terminal') but describes the capability abstractly rather than listing concrete actions such as read, send, reply, or search.

2 / 3

Completeness

Answers 'what' (IMAP/SMTP email from terminal) but lacks any 'Use when...' or equivalent trigger clause, so the 'when' is missing and completeness is capped at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes relevant natural terms ('email', 'IMAP', 'SMTP', 'terminal') but misses common variations a user would say like 'inbox', 'send email', or 'mail'.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Tied to a named niche tool (Himalaya CLI) and IMAP/SMTP terminal email, making it clearly distinguishable and unlikely to trigger the wrong skill.

3 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Validation

81%

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

Validation13 / 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

Total

13

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16

Passed

Repository
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