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concise-planning

Use when a user asks for a plan for a coding task, to generate a clear, actionable, and atomic checklist.

78

1.46x
Quality

74%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

97%

1.46x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

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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.

The content is a tight, well-structured instruction skill: a clear three-step workflow, concrete structural constraints, and a ready-to-use plan template, all within a compact self-contained body. Its only real weaknesses are a useless circular "When to Use" line and the absence of a worked example showing what a good output looks like.

Suggestions

Delete or rewrite the circular "When to Use" section — it restates nothing of value and wastes tokens; the frontmatter description already carries the trigger.

Add a brief filled-in example (or example snippet) of one plan item done well vs. poorly to anchor the "atomic, verb-first, concrete" rules.

Optionally add an explicit post-generation step (e.g. re-check that every action item is atomic and a validation item exists) to close the workflow's feedback loop.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence — it never explains what planning is or why it matters, and every section carries instructions. The one trimmable piece is the circular "When to Use" sentence ("applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview"), which adds no information, fitting anchor 4 (efficient with minor instances that could be trimmed) rather than the fully lean anchor 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is concrete and executable for an instruction-only skill: exact interaction limits ("at most 1-2 questions"), a fixed plan structure (Approach in 1-3 sentences, In/Out scope, "6-10 atomic, ordered tasks", a required validation item), verb-first rules, and a copy-paste markdown template. It misses anchor 5 only because there is no worked example of a filled-in plan to anchor quality.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The three-step workflow (Scan Context → Minimal Interaction → Generate Plan) is a clear, correctly ordered sequence, and it embeds a validation checkpoint by requiring "At least one item for testing" in the generated plan. This is not a destructive or batch operation, so no cap applies; it falls short of anchor 5 because the workflow itself has no explicit review/feedback step after plan generation.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is short and self-contained with clean section headers (Goal, Workflow, Plan Template, Checklist Guidelines) and no external references. Nothing here warrants splitting into bundle files, and per the rubric's simple-skill guidance, well-organized sections with no need for references merit a 5.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Description

58%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 has the right shape — an explicit "Use when" trigger plus a stated output — but it is thin on both concrete capability detail and natural trigger variations. The single action described (generate a checklist) leaves coverage gaps and modest overlap risk with other planning skills.

Suggestions

Enumerate the concrete deliverables in the what-clause, e.g. "Generate a structured plan with an approach summary, In/Out scope, 6-10 verb-first atomic action items, and a validation step."

Add natural trigger synonyms users actually say, such as "plan this task", "break this down into steps", "roadmap", or "todo checklist", to broaden keyword coverage.

Sharpen the when-clause to distinguish from generic planning, e.g. "Use when the user asks for a concise, actionable checklist-style plan for a coding task, not a discussion or open-ended design exploration."

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the domain ("a plan for a coding task") and one concrete action ("generate a clear, actionable, and atomic checklist"), but offers no further specifics about what the checklist contains or how it is structured. It matches anchor 3 (domain plus 1-2 concrete actions, not comprehensive) rather than anchor 4, which expects several specific actions.

3 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are present: the "what" is "generate a clear, actionable, and atomic checklist" and the "when" is the explicit "Use when a user asks for a plan for a coding task". It falls short of anchor 5 because the "what" leans on adjectives (clear, actionable, atomic) instead of concrete trigger-phrase-level detail about the output, leaving the when/what pairing slightly thin.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"plan" and "coding task" are natural phrases a user would say, but common variations and synonyms such as "roadmap", "break down into steps", "todo list", or "action items" are absent. This fits anchor 3 (some relevant keywords but missing common variations) better than anchor 4's good keyword coverage.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The trigger "user asks for a plan" is a common request that would also match general planning, roadmap, or task-breakdown skills, so overlap risk remains. It is somewhat specific (scoped to coding tasks and atomic checklists) but fits anchor 3 rather than anchor 4's "mostly distinct".

3 / 5

Total

13

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20

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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

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Path

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