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Expert guidance for using JJ (Jujutsu) version control system. Use when working with JJ, whatever the subject. Operations, revsets, templates, debugging change evolution, etc. Covers JJ commands, template system, evolog, operations log, and interoperability with git remotes.

90

1.26x
Quality

90%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

90%

1.26x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

80%

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

Highly actionable and token-efficient command reference, but it lacks sequenced workflows with validation for its destructive/batch operations and contains a dangling reference to a non-existent revsets.md file.

Suggestions

Create references/revsets.md (or remove the 'See references/revsets.md' pointer on line 89) so every in-body reference resolves to a real bundle file.

Add a short validation checkpoint to the Recovery and rebase/restore flows (e.g. run 'jj log' or 'jj diff' after 'jj op restore' / 'jj rebase' to confirm the result) to lift workflow clarity above 2.

For batch operations like jj absorb and jj-batch-desc, add an explicit verify step (e.g. 'jj log -p' to inspect before/after) since these mutate multiple commits.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Lean command-reference style with dense, flag-annotated code blocks and bullets; it adds only JJ-specific knowledge (change IDs vs commit IDs, colocated repos) that Claude would not already know, with no padding.

3 / 3

Actionability

Commands are fully executable with concrete flags and inline examples (e.g. 'jj diff -f <rev1> -t <rev2>', 'jj file show -r <rev> **/*.md -T ...'), copy-paste ready.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The skill is a command catalog rather than a sequenced workflow, and risky/batch operations (jj restore, jj rebase, jj absorb, jj-batch-desc, jj op restore) appear without validation checkpoints, which caps workflow clarity at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Sections and a scripts table are well organized, but the body directs readers to 'references/revsets.md' which does not exist in the bundle (only command-syntax.md and batch-operations.md are present), a broken one-level reference.

2 / 3

Total

10

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12

Passed

Description

100%

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 strong description: concrete capabilities, explicit 'Use when' trigger, and a clearly distinct niche. Voice is appropriately third-person/imperative throughout.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete capabilities: 'Operations, revsets, templates, debugging change evolution... JJ commands, template system, evolog, operations log, and interoperability with git remotes.'

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Expert guidance for using JJ... Covers JJ commands, template system, evolog, operations log, and interoperability with git remotes') and when ('Use when working with JJ, whatever the subject').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms a user would say are well covered: 'JJ', 'Jujutsu', 'revsets', 'templates', 'evolog', matching the score-3 anchor for good coverage of natural terms.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

JJ/Jujutsu is a distinct niche tool and the 'working with JJ' trigger is unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, so conflict risk is low.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 1 missing

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

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