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Check session status and measure goal drift

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

70%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well-structured with clear sequencing and validation checkpoints, and it provides concrete MCP tool calls with a worked example. It loses points for padded cautionary language and a discovery step that is not fully executable.

Suggestions

Tighten the "Load MCP Tools" section by collapsing the repeated "Do NOT skip / Do NOT assume" warnings into a single concise instruction.

Replace or augment the natural-language "tool discovery query" with the concrete runtime command or API call Claude should actually issue.

Merge the standalone "RFC #1392 State Breadcrumb Footer" section into the existing Status Steps breadcrumb guidance to remove redundancy.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient with concrete tool calls, but it is padded by repeated emphatic cautions ("Do NOT skip this step", the all-caps IMPORTANT note) and a footer section that re-explains state breadcrumbs already covered in the Status Steps.

2 / 3

Actionability

It supplies concrete tool names, full argument schemas, and a worked example, but the "tool discovery query: +ouroboros session status" step is a natural-language description rather than a copy-paste executable command, and several arguments remain placeholders.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Status Steps are clearly numbered with an explicit tool-availability checkpoint, a drift-threshold validation gate that triggers warnings, and a fallback recovery path — matching the clear-sequence-with-validation anchor.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

With no bundle files present, the body is organized into well-signaled sections (Usage, How It Works, Instructions, Drift Thresholds, Fallback, Example) with no nested or broken references.

3 / 3

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12

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Description

50%

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 concise and names a clear niche with two concrete actions, but it omits explicit trigger/usage guidance and relies on only moderately natural keywords. It is competent but not exemplary.

Suggestions

Add a "Use when..." clause naming natural triggers, e.g. "Use when checking on a running Ouroboros session, when the user asks 'am I drifting?', or before evaluating evolved output."

Broaden trigger-term coverage to include the conversational phrasings users actually say, such as "am I drifting?", "drift check", and "goal drift".

Lead with the more distinctive framing (drift measurement) before the generic "session status" to reduce overlap with other status-style skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Check session status and measure goal drift" names a concrete domain and two specific actions, but stops at two rather than listing multiple comprehensive actions.

2 / 3

Completeness

It states what the skill does but has no "Use when..." clause or equivalent trigger guidance, so completeness is capped at 2 per the rubric guidelines.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Terms "session status" and "goal drift" are relevant, but the more natural phrasing users would say ("am I drifting?") appears only in the body, not the description, leaving common variations missing.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The "goal drift" niche is distinctive, but "session status" is generic enough that it could still overlap with other session-tracking skills.

2 / 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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