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mono-color

Generate one- or two-ink editorial print poster images.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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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 strong, actionable, well-validated instruction skill with excellent workflow clarity and good progressive disclosure. Its main weakness is that the design-system catalog files — referenced throughout as the source of truth and as bundled — are missing, leaving several manifest-field lookups unresolvable.

Suggestions

Bundle the missing design-system/ catalogs (colors.json, compositions.json, typography.json, rhythm.json, imperfections.json, carriers.json) or inline their ID lists so manifest fields can actually be resolved.

Reduce repetition between the Quick Reference print-modes table and the Procedure, and consolidate the substrate/empty-paper defaults so each is stated once.

Clarify the fallback when a catalog is unavailable (e.g., which visual-language.md values substitute for the missing colors.json entries).

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is information-dense and assumes Claude's competence (no basic-concept padding), but repeats defaults across Quick Reference and Procedure and restates the two-ink/empty-paper rules in several places, so it is efficient with minor trimmable redundancy; not 5 because of that repetition and overall length, not 3 because it does not explain things Claude already knows.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete values (hexes #2148B8/#C65F38, percentages 25-55%/45-80%/5-9%), a copy-paste recipe manifest template, a 5-paragraph prompt structure, and a decision flow make the guidance highly executable; not 5 because the procedure repeatedly directs lookups into design-system/*.json catalogs that are not bundled, so ~6 manifest fields (carrier, typography, rhythm, imperfections, compositions IDs) cannot be resolved from available material, and not 3 because what is present is specific and actionable.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced 6-step procedure (read input → resolve manifest → choose layout → compile prompt → generate+inspect → deliver) with explicit validation in step 5, a regenerate-once feedback loop with named failure conditions, a text-rendering fallback, and dedicated Verification and quality-gate checklists matches the explicit-validation-plus-feedback-loops anchor; not 4 because checkpoints are comprehensive rather than having minor gaps.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The overview is well-structured and the three reference files are one-level-deep with clear "When to load" headers and Quick Reference descriptions; not 5 because the design-system/ catalog directory (6 .json files) is referenced as the bundled source of truth yet is absent from the actual bundle, breaking the navigation/split ideal, and not 3 because the references that do exist are clearly signaled and well-organized.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

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Description

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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 but omits any explicit trigger/when guidance, which caps completeness at 3 and limits trigger-term coverage. It is a precise niche statement that would benefit from a Use-when clause.

Suggestions

Add a 'Use when...' clause naming concrete triggers (e.g., 'Use when the user asks for a monochrome or duotone poster, risograph/zine print, halftone photo, or one-/two-ink editorial cover').

Include natural synonyms users say — duotone, monochrome, risograph, halftone — alongside 'poster/print/editorial' to improve trigger-term coverage.

Optionally enumerate the core action set (design + generate the poster image) so specificity moves beyond the single verb 'Generate'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Generate one- or two-ink editorial print poster images" names the domain precisely (one/two-ink editorial print poster) with one concrete action (generate), matching the 1-2 concrete actions anchor; it is not 2 because the domain+constraint is more concrete than "Processes PDF files", and not 4 because only a single action is listed.

3 / 5

Completeness

The "what" is clear (generate one/two-ink editorial print poster images) but there is no "Use when..." clause or equivalent trigger guidance, so per the missing-trigger cap it cannot exceed 3; not 4 because "when" is absent rather than weakly implied.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"poster", "print", and "editorial" are natural terms a user would say, giving good keyword coverage; it is not 5 because common synonyms like duotone, monochrome, risograph, and halftone (present in the body) are omitted, and not 3 because coverage exceeds a single generic term.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"one- or two-ink editorial print poster" carves a clear niche with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk versus general image-generation skills; not 4 because the ink-limit + editorial-print qualifier makes overlap unlikely rather than merely minor.

5 / 5

Total

15

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20

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.

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

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metadata_field

'metadata' should map string keys to string values

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

13

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16

Passed

Repository

NousResearch/hermes-agent

Path

optional-skills/creative/mono-color/SKILL.md

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