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architecture-review

Review a change for architectural drift, guardrail weakening, and ADR impact before shipping.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

86%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 a tight, well-organized review checklist with executable commands and a clear findings format. It scores top marks on conciseness and progressive disclosure, with only minor actionability and workflow-clarity gaps.

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Conciseness

Lean and token-efficient with no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every line is an actionable checklist item, command, or output spec.

5 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable commands (adr_guard.py invocations) and a precise findings format, but the Focus Areas are guiding questions rather than copy-paste-ready steps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear sequence (review focus areas → run commands → report findings) with an explicit no-issues terminal state; minor gap in ordering between manual review and command execution.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A single-purpose review skill under 50 lines with well-organized section headers and no need for external references, meeting the simple-skill exception for a top score.

5 / 5

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20

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Description

70%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 with a clear niche, but it lacks an explicit "Use when..." trigger clause, which caps completeness. Adding concrete trigger phrases would raise the score.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause naming natural phrases like 'architecture review', 'ADR impact', or 'guardrail changes'.

Include common synonyms/file references (e.g. 'ADR', 'guardrails', 'cross-layer imports') to broaden trigger-term coverage.

Reframe the three actions as more concrete review operations to push specificity toward comprehensive coverage.

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Specificity

Names the domain and three concrete review actions ("architectural drift", "guardrail weakening", "ADR impact"), but they remain review categories rather than fully concrete operations, so it sits just below the comprehensive 5 anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Has a clear "what" but no explicit "Use when..." trigger clause; the trailing "before shipping" is weak implied timing, so per the missing-trigger guidance completeness is capped at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases a user would say ("architectural drift", "guardrail weakening", "ADR impact", "before shipping") with good coverage, though common synonyms like "architecture review" or "ADR review" are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a clear niche (architecture/ADR/guardrail conformance review) with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills.

5 / 5

Total

16

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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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 3 missing, 2 deeper-than-1-level

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
PaloAltoNetworks/shifter
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