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MCP-owned Ralph loop around background evolve_step jobs

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Quality

67%

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

77%

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 explicit validation-gated workflows and concrete tool contracts, its main weakness being verbosity and a monolithic structure with no progressive-disclosure references.

Suggestions

Move the long observer-relay and Active Conductor decision policy detail into a reference file (e.g. OBSERVER.md) and link to it from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure and token efficiency.

Tighten the polling-owner and delegation paragraphs into bullet form to cut redundant caveats while preserving the validation checkpoints.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence, but dense prose blocks like the observer-relay paragraph and repeated delegation caveats could be tightened; not quite the lean 'every token earns its place' anchor.

2 / 3

Actionability

It gives concrete, copy-paste-ready tool calls with exact argument signatures (e.g. ouroboros_job_wait(... timeout_seconds=120, stream="linked", wait_for="attention_or_ac_change")) and a precise breadcrumb format.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear sequenced flow (load tools -> prepare input -> start -> handle response -> monitor -> terminate) with explicit validation checkpoints (stop if tools unavailable; gate on terminal status) and feedback loops for error recovery.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is a long monolithic SKILL.md with no bundle files or one-level-deep references; it is well sectioned, but content that could be split (e.g. observer relay policy, conductor decision policy) is inline rather than signaled to separate files.

2 / 3

Total

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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 specific and distinctive but omits explicit 'when to use' trigger guidance, so it cannot reach the top completeness tier. It is concise and clear rather than padded.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause stating when Claude should invoke this skill, e.g. when the user wants a persistent evolving Ralph loop or says 'keep going until it works'.

Surface the natural-language trigger terms ('ralph', 'don't stop', 'keep going') that already appear in the body into the description for better trigger coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The phrase 'MCP-owned Ralph loop around background evolve_step jobs' names a clear domain and operation but compresses it into a single noun phrase rather than listing multiple concrete actions, matching the 'names domain and some actions' anchor.

2 / 3

Completeness

It answers what the skill does but provides no 'Use when...' trigger clause, so per the guideline a missing explicit trigger caps completeness at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

'Ralph' and 'background jobs' are relevant, but 'MCP-owned' and 'evolve_step jobs' lean technical; some natural keywords are present yet common user variations are missing.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'Ralph loop around background evolve_step jobs' framing carves a narrow, tool-specific niche unlikely to trigger for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

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12

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

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Total

15

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16

Passed

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