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36%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is a thin template: it duplicates the description as prose, provides one executable install command, and defers everything substantive — API usage, examples, troubleshooting — to an external GitHub repo. Claude reading this skill would have no idea how to actually perform an Exa search.
Suggestions
Add executable examples of actual Exa API usage (e.g., a curl or Python snippet hitting the /search endpoint with contents/category filters) so the skill's core function is usable without leaving the bundle.
Replace 'Configure Exa API key' with concrete configuration steps, e.g., the exact environment variable name (EXA_API_KEY) and where to set it.
Bundle the examples and troubleshooting content currently deferred to the GitHub repo into local reference files (e.g., references/examples.md, references/troubleshooting.md) and link them from the body instead of external URLs.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is short and avoids concept over-explanation, but the Overview and 'When to Use' sections restate the frontmatter description verbatim and 'Use naturally in Claude Code conversations' adds nothing — mostly efficient with some redundant boilerplate that could be tightened. Not 2 because there is no padding via explanations of known concepts; not 4 because several sections are pure filler. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The only executable guidance is the install command `npx skills add -g BenedictKing/exa-search`; 'Configure Exa API key' gives no env-var name or method, and there is zero code or API usage for the skill's actual function (Exa searches) — high-level hints missing the specific steps to execute. Not 3 because no partial or pseudocode guidance for the core task exists at all. | 2 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The three steps ('Install the skill', 'Configure Exa API key', 'Use naturally in Claude Code conversations') form a rough sequence but are poorly defined — configuration has no instructions and step 3 is vacuous — with no checkpoints. Not 3 because the steps are too vague to constitute even an implicit validation-bearing sequence. | 2 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section headers are clear and pointers are explicitly signaled ('See GitHub Repository for examples', 'See the GitHub repository for troubleshooting guides'), but all substantive content is deferred to an external URL rather than any bundled reference file (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent), leaving the bundle hollow. Not 2 because references are clearly signaled rather than buried; not 4 because essential content has no appropriate home within the skill. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 10 / 20 Passed |