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Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

82%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, highly actionable skill body with executable examples, a clear mental model, and a genuinely useful Common Pitfalls section. It earns high marks on actionability and organization; the only gaps are a slightly redundant Mental Model section and the absence of an explicit error-recovery feedback loop.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Lean body that assumes competence (no explaining what RSS/GitHub is) with tight tables and copy-paste commands; the Mental Model section slightly restates what the script table already conveys.

4 / 5

Actionability

Three fully executable command blocks with real flags, URLs, and a real repo, plus a script table, state-file inspection, and force-replay commands — copy-paste ready and covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear numbered mental-model sequence (fetch, compare, write, print) and an unambiguous single action (run script -> emit new items or nothing), with error-exit noted; no explicit fetch-failure feedback loop keeps it just below 5.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized sections with the three bundle scripts clearly mapped in a table and the shared _watermark.py helper explicitly pointed to for custom builds; references are one level deep, with only minor lack of explicit 'see X for full API' navigation links.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

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Description

58%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.

A terse, specific description that clearly conveys what the skill does and its distinct mechanism, but it omits explicit trigger guidance and natural user phrasings. Adding a 'Use when...' clause with watch/notify keywords would raise both completeness and trigger quality.

Suggestions

Append an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when the user wants to watch an RSS feed, a GitHub repo, or a JSON endpoint and be notified only of new items.'

Add natural synonyms users say ("watch", "notify me when X changes", "monitor a feed") alongside the technical terms.

Consider naming the reaction/output (e.g. 'react only to new items') so the capability reads as more than a single verb.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names three concrete source types ("RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub") and a concrete dedup technique ("watermark dedup"), giving several specific capabilities with only minor gaps in action verbs.

4 / 5

Completeness

The "what" is clear (poll three sources with watermark dedup) but there is no "Use when..." clause or equivalent trigger guidance, capping completeness per the guidelines.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms (RSS, GitHub, JSON APIs) but misses the common phrasings users actually say ("watch", "notify me when", "monitor", "feed changes").

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The combination of three named polling targets plus watermark dedup carves a clear niche, with only minor overlap risk against generic monitoring/cron skills.

4 / 5

Total

14

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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.

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

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