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bash-scripting

Bash scripting workflow for creating production-ready shell scripts with defensive patterns, error handling, and testing.

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tessl review fix ./plugins/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills-claude/skills/bash-scripting/SKILL.md

The canonical home for this skill is bash-scripting in administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

57%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 provides a usable executable template and a clearly sequenced seven-phase workflow, but suffers from repetitive phase boilerplate, absent inter-phase validation checkpoints, and an all-inline structure that would benefit from referenced bundle files.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation checkpoints between phases (e.g., 'After Phase 6: run ShellCheck and Bats before documenting') to add feedback loops the destructive/batch context demands.

Move the script template and reusable patterns into reference files (e.g., references/template.sh, references/strict-mode.md) and link to them, improving progressive disclosure and conciseness.

Collapse the repetitive 'Skills to Invoke / Actions / Copy-Paste Prompts' headers into a compact table per phase to cut boilerplate tokens.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient and free of concept-over-explaining, but the 'Skills to Invoke / Actions / Copy-Paste Prompts' boilerplate repeated across seven phases, with thin one-line prompts, could be tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

The script template (set -euo pipefail, log, usage, main) is concrete and copy-paste ready, but the per-phase 'Actions' lists stay high-level with minor gaps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Seven phases are clearly sequenced and a terminal Quality Gates checklist exists, but there are no per-phase validation checkpoints; for a skill producing deployment/backup/CI-CD scripts the destructive-context cap limits this to 3.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The ~190-line body is reasonably sectioned, but everything is inline with no bundle files; the script template and reference material could be split into one-level-deep referenced files, and the @skill mentions are not file references.

3 / 5

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Description

66%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 clearly states what the skill does with several concrete actions, but omits any explicit 'when to use' trigger guidance, which caps completeness. Trigger terms are good but lack common synonyms.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when…' clause naming natural triggers (e.g., automation scripts, deployment scripts, .sh files) to lift completeness past 3.

Broaden trigger terms with synonyms and file extensions users actually say: 'bash script', 'shell script', '.sh', 'automation script'.

Sharpen specificity by naming concrete outputs (e.g., 'with strict mode, trap-based error handling, and Bats tests') to approach comprehensive coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the bash domain plus several concrete actions — 'defensive patterns, error handling, and testing' — but stops short of the comprehensive, fine-grained action list of the 5 anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear, but there is no 'Use when…' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, which the guidelines cap at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'Bash scripting' and 'shell scripts' are natural user phrases, but common variations like 'automation script' and the .sh extension are absent, leaving a few natural terms missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Bash scripting workflow' carves a clear niche, with only minor overlap risk against closely related skills like os-scripting and linux-troubleshooting.

4 / 5

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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

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