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paddle-catalog-setup

Create the Paddle products and prices that other Paddle skills depend on — try MCP tools first, fall back to a Node SDK seed script, or dictate dashboard steps as a last resort.

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Quality

Content

88%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.

The body is highly actionable with executable code, commands, and dashboard steps, and the workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit verification and fallback loops. Its only meaningful gap is conciseness — several key pitfalls are restated verbatim from earlier sections.

Suggestions

Dedupe the amount-units, trial-on-one-time, and casing explanations so each appears once; cross-reference from 'Common pitfalls' instead of restating.

Consider extracting the tax-category table and SDK template into a reference file to push progressive disclosure toward a true overview-plus-references structure.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly lean and assumes Claude's competence with genuinely non-obvious Paddle specifics (zero-decimal currencies, MCP hard caps, snake_case vs camelCase), but several details are repeated across the pitfalls section — amount units, trial-on-one-time, and casing conventions — keeping it just short of fully efficient.

4 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable guidance throughout: copy-paste MCP execute payloads, a complete TS seed-script template, exact install/run commands, and click-by-click dashboard steps covering recurring, one-time, and regional-override cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear ranked fallback across three methods, each with numbered steps, plus an explicit Verify section (confirm existence, match IDs, suggest next step) and failure-driven fallback loops that satisfy the validation requirement for batch creation.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized single-file skill with clear sections and well-signaled external one-level-deep 'Related docs' links, but all content is inline with no bundle files or split references, so it stops short of the ideal split structure.

4 / 5

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Description

75%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 is specific and distinct, clearly naming the domain and three concrete creation methods. Its main weakness is the absence of an explicit 'Use when…' trigger clause, which leaves the invocation timing only weakly implied.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when…' clause naming the trigger, e.g. 'Use when starting a Paddle integration whose account has no products/prices yet, or when the user asks to add new catalog items.'

Include a couple of natural synonyms such as 'catalog' or 'subscription setup' alongside 'products and prices' to broaden trigger coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain and multiple concrete actions — create Paddle products and prices, try MCP tools first, fall back to a Node SDK seed script, dictate dashboard steps — giving comprehensive coverage of creation methods.

5 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear (create products and prices for other Paddle skills), but there is no explicit 'Use when…' clause and the 'when' is only weakly implied, capping completeness at 3 per the rubric guideline.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good keyword coverage with 'Paddle products and prices', 'MCP tools', 'Node SDK seed script', and 'dashboard steps', though the phrasing leans technical and misses a few natural synonyms like 'catalog' or 'billing setup'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche — Paddle catalog setup that sibling Paddle skills depend on — with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

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

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 2 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
PaddleHQ/paddle-agent-skills
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