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startup-analyst

Expert startup business analyst specializing in market sizing, financial modeling, competitive analysis, and strategic planning for early-stage companies.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

10%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 skill reads like a persona description or job posting rather than an actionable skill file. It spends hundreds of tokens describing what the analyst should know and how it should behave, but provides zero concrete tools, formulas, templates, or executable guidance. The content is severely verbose, repeating similar concepts across multiple sections (behavioral traits, capabilities, knowledge base, quality standards) without adding actionable value.

Suggestions

Replace the descriptive capability lists with concrete, executable artifacts: actual TAM calculation templates with formulas, specific financial model structures with example numbers, and worked examples showing input → output for common tasks.

Cut the content by 70%+ by removing sections that describe Claude's personality traits, general knowledge areas, and abstract capabilities. Focus only on what Claude wouldn't already know: specific frameworks, formulas, benchmark numbers, and decision trees.

Add concrete workflow sequences for the core tasks (e.g., 'Market Sizing Workflow: 1. Identify target segment → 2. Calculate bottom-up using [formula] → 3. Validate with top-down → 4. Cross-check against [benchmark source]') with specific validation checkpoints.

Move detailed reference material (metrics benchmarks, compensation data, industry-specific templates) into separate bundle files and reference them clearly from a concise SKILL.md overview.

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Conciseness

Extremely verbose at ~300+ lines. Extensively explains concepts Claude already knows (what market sizing is, what Porter's Five Forces is, what SaaS metrics are, behavioral traits Claude should exhibit). The vast majority of content is descriptive padding—listing capabilities, knowledge areas, and behavioral traits rather than providing actionable instructions. Multiple sections repeat the same ideas (e.g., quality standards, behavioral traits, and response approach all overlap significantly).

1 / 5

Actionability

Despite its length, the skill contains zero executable code, no concrete commands, no specific formulas, no templates, and no copy-paste-ready artifacts. Everything is abstract description ('Apply relevant best practices', 'Use proven methodologies', 'Calculate and analyze'). The 'Example Interactions' section lists questions but provides no answers or worked examples. References to commands like `/market-opportunity` and skills like 'market-sizing-analysis' have no concrete implementation details.

1 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 'Response Approach' section lists 10 high-level steps but they are generic and vague ('Understand context', 'Activate relevant skills', 'Apply frameworks'). No validation checkpoints, no feedback loops, no concrete sequencing for any specific analytical task. The steps could apply to virtually any analytical task and provide no startup-analyst-specific workflow guidance.

2 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

References `resources/implementation-playbook.md` and several skills/commands but no bundle files are provided, making these references unverifiable dead ends. The massive amount of content inlined in SKILL.md (core expertise, knowledge base, special considerations) should clearly be split into separate reference files. The structure has headers but the content within them is bloated and poorly organized for discovery.

2 / 5

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Description

41%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 reads more like a persona or role definition ('Expert startup business analyst') than a skill description of concrete actions. It lists relevant domain areas but lacks specific actions, a 'when to use' clause, and uses an implicit first/third-person role framing rather than describing what the skill does. The trigger terms are reasonable but miss many natural user phrases.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with trigger phrases like 'Use when the user asks about market sizing, TAM/SAM/SOM, startup financial projections, competitive landscape, business plans, or go-to-market strategy.'

Replace the role-based framing ('Expert startup business analyst specializing in...') with concrete action verbs describing what the skill does, e.g., 'Builds financial models, calculates market size (TAM/SAM/SOM), analyzes competitive landscapes, and creates strategic plans for early-stage startups.'

Add natural synonyms and related terms users would actually say, such as 'business plan', 'pitch deck', 'unit economics', 'revenue model', 'fundraising', 'burn rate', or 'go-to-market strategy'.

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Specificity

Names the domain (startup business analysis) and lists several areas (market sizing, financial modeling, competitive analysis, strategic planning), but these are category labels rather than concrete actions. It doesn't describe what it actually does with these areas (e.g., 'builds financial models', 'calculates TAM/SAM/SOM').

3 / 5

Completeness

Has a vague 'what' (specializing in several business analysis areas) but completely lacks a 'when' clause. There is no explicit guidance on when Claude should select this skill, which per the rubric should cap completeness at 3, and the 'what' itself is more of a role description than an action description, pushing it to 2.

2 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes some relevant keywords like 'market sizing', 'financial modeling', 'competitive analysis', and 'strategic planning' that users might mention. However, it misses many natural variations and synonyms users would say such as 'TAM', 'business plan', 'revenue projections', 'go-to-market', 'pitch deck analysis', 'unit economics', or 'fundraising'.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The focus on 'early-stage companies' and 'startup' provides some narrowing, but terms like 'financial modeling' and 'competitive analysis' are broad enough to overlap with general business analysis or finance skills. The combination of startup focus helps somewhat but doesn't create a clearly distinct niche.

3 / 5

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11

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20

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Validation

90%

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

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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

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Total

10

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11

Passed

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