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creating-springboot-projects

Use when starting a new Spring Boot 4 project — scaffolding a service, REST API, or modular backend; picking an architecture (layered, package-by-module, modular-monolith, tomato, DDD-hexagonal); selecting Spring Boot 4 features; or applying the bundled templates and references in this skill. Not for migrating existing projects or for isolated JPA/repository work without broader project-creation context.

89

1.13x
Quality

85%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

93%

1.13x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No findings from the security scan

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

78%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.

A well-structured, actionable skill body with a clear sequenced workflow, a decision matrix, concrete templates, and excellent progressive disclosure into real reference/asset files. The main efficiency cost is the repeated Java-version guidance across multiple sections.

Suggestions

Consolidate the Java 25/21/17/26 version guidance into one canonical location (e.g. Step 3) and reference it elsewhere instead of restating the GA date and LTS rationale three times.

Add an explicit validation checkpoint in the workflow (e.g. 'compile the project and run the generated Testcontainers/RestTestClient tests before handoff') to close the loop after applying templates.

The {{TABLE}} vs {{TABLE_NAME}} legacy divergence is called out in prose; consider normalizing flyway-migration.sql to {{TABLE_NAME}} so the placeholder set stays minimal.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence (no boilerplate explaining what Spring Boot or JPA is), but the Java version guidance is stated three times across the Critical rules, Step 3, and the placeholder section, which could be consolidated.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides a concrete decision matrix, dependency checklists, Spring Initializr parameters, a placeholder table, and an explicit output-format template — mostly executable, though the templates themselves are referenced rather than inlined (appropriate for a bundle skill).

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear six-step sequenced workflow with explicit 'read X before Y' checkpoints and handoff rules; not a 5 because validation/verification checkpoints for the generated scaffold (e.g. compiling or testing the result) are implied rather than explicit, though the 'templates do not compile until placeholders are replaced' note is a useful guard.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Clean overview SKILL.md pointing one level deep to two real reference files (architecture-guide.md, spring-boot-4-features.md) and 18 real, well-categorized asset templates, with navigation organized into Core vs Boot-4/modularity groups; references are clearly signaled and not nested.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Description

92%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.

A strong, third-person description with explicit what/when structure, concrete actions, and clear scope boundaries including an anti-trigger. It is nearly comprehensive; only minor synonym coverage of natural user phrasings is missing.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'scaffolding a service, REST API, or modular backend', 'picking an architecture', 'selecting Spring Boot 4 features', 'applying the bundled templates' — with comprehensive coverage of what the skill does.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (scaffolding/architecture/feature selection/templates) and when ('Use when starting a new Spring Boot 4 project ...') with concrete trigger phrases and an explicit anti-trigger ('Not for migrating ...').

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keywords ('new Spring Boot 4 project', 'REST API', 'scaffolding', 'architecture') but is missing common synonyms a user might say like 'Spring Initializr', 'starter', or generic 'Spring Boot' phrasings.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche — new Spring Boot 4 project creation — with an explicit 'Not for migrating existing projects' boundary that minimizes conflict with sibling skills like springboot-migration or spring-data-jpa.

5 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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a-pavithraa/springboot-skills-marketplace
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