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conductor-new-track

Create a new track with specification and phased implementation plan

1.92x
Quality

64%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

98%

1.92x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No findings from the security scan

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The canonical home for this skill is conductor-new-track in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

70%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.

This is a highly actionable, well-sequenced workflow skill: concrete templates, explicit user checkpoints, and error-handling loops make it reliably executable. Its weaknesses are boilerplate filler sections, a broken reference to a nonexistent resources/implementation-playbook.md, and inline bulk (per-type question banks) that belongs in bundle files.

Suggestions

Create the referenced resources/implementation-playbook.md (with worked track examples) or remove the dead reference so progressive disclosure points at a real file.

Delete the circular "Use this skill when" / "Do not use this skill when" boilerplate and the generic Instructions section, which restate the skill's name without adding guidance.

Move the per-track-type question banks (Feature/Bug/Chore question scripts) into a references file, keeping only the shared interaction rules and a pointer in SKILL.md.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly efficient — the templates, question scripts, and file formats earn their tokens — but several sections are filler: the circular "Use this skill when ... Working on new track tasks or workflows" / "The task is unrelated to new track" bullets and the generic Instructions section ("Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes"). This matches anchor 3 ('mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'); it is not 4 because those boilerplate sections add no information Claude needs.

3 / 5

Actionability

The body provides exact paths, a concrete track ID format with collision handling, full copy-paste templates for spec.md, plan.md, metadata.json, and index.md, and scripted per-type question banks. It stops short of anchor 5 on minor gaps: the conductor/tracks.md table header is never defined (only a row format), and "opens for inline edits" and the edit-review flow are unspecified.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The sequence is explicit end-to-end: pre-flight checks that verify initialization before proceeding, interactive gathering capped at one question per turn, spec generation with a user approval checkpoint, plan generation with a second approval checkpoint, then file creation with a completion message. The Error Handling section adds feedback loops for recovery (halt without registering on directory failure, clean up partial track on write failure, warn on tracks.md failure), matching anchor 5's 'explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery'.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The single file is well-sectioned, but the only external reference — "If detailed examples are required, open `resources/implementation-playbook.md`" — points to a file that does not exist in the bundle, and no other bundle files are provided. The ~435-line body also inlines the full per-track-type question banks, which are natural candidates for a references file. This matches anchor 3 ('some structure but could be better organized; references present but not clearly signaled'); the dead reference keeps it from scoring higher.

3 / 5

Total

15

/

20

Passed

Description

42%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 delivers a clear, third-person 'what' with two concrete artifacts, but provides no 'when to use' trigger guidance and leans on project-local jargon ('track') instead of natural user terms. Adding an explicit 'Use when...' clause with user-facing phrases (new feature, bug fix, implementation plan) would raise both completeness and trigger-term quality.

Suggestions

Append an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when starting a new feature, bug fix, chore, or refactor track, or when the user asks to plan or specify new work."

Replace or supplement the jargon term "track" with natural user vocabulary such as "feature", "bug fix", or "task" so users' phrasing matches the description.

Briefly enumerate the concrete outputs (spec.md, plan.md, track registration) to move specificity from 1-2 actions toward comprehensive coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Create a new track with specification and phased implementation plan" names the domain plus two concrete artifacts (spec, phased plan), matching the anchor 'names domain and 1-2 concrete actions, but not comprehensive'. It stays at 3 rather than 4 because it omits the four track types (feature/bug/chore/refactor), the files created, or registration in tracks.md; it is above 2 because it does more than merely name the domain.

3 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear (create a track with a spec and phased plan), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance in the description, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines. It is not 2 because the 'what' is specific rather than vague, and not 4 because no 'when' is present even weakly.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

The only substantive keywords are "track", "specification", and "implementation plan" — "track" is project-local Conductor jargon, and natural user phrases like "new feature", "plan a feature", or "file a bug" are absent. This matches anchor 2 ('one or two generic keywords; missing the natural phrases users say') and falls below anchor 3, which expects relevant keywords a user would actually type.

2 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The spec-plus-plan workflow is a reasonably distinct niche, but with no trigger terms and the undefined term "track", it could still overlap with generic planning, task-management, or scaffolding skills — matching anchor 3 ('somewhat specific but could still overlap'). It is not 4 because nothing in the description delineates it from those neighbors.

3 / 5

Total

11

/

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

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

15

/

16

Passed

Repository

administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

Path

plugins/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills/skills/conductor-new-track/SKILL.md

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