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canary-watch

Use this skill to monitor and verify a deployed URL after releases — checks HTTP endpoints, SSE streams, static assets, console errors, and performance regressions after deploys, merges, or dependency upgrades. Smoke / canary / post-deploy verification.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

Well-organized and token-efficient with a clear output contract and concrete invocation examples. The main gap is actionability and workflow completeness: it specifies what to watch and the thresholds but lacks executable implementation guidance and explicit recovery/escalation checkpoints for the monitoring loop.

Suggestions

Add a short implementation section with the actual commands or script to run checks (e.g., the curl/playwright/perf-measurement commands behind each of the 8 watched items), since the skill currently specifies the contract but not how to execute it.

Add an explicit escalation/recovery checkpoint to the loop: define what happens after a critical alert (retry count, backoff, when to stop, how to re-verify a recovery) rather than leaving the feedback loop implied.

Note where ~/.claude/canary-watch.log and any supporting script live, or indicate this skill generates the runner on demand, so Claude knows whether a bundled script exists to invoke.

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Conciseness

Lean body that assumes Claude's competence — no preamble explaining what monitoring or LCP/CLS are; every section (checks, modes, thresholds, output) earns its tokens with actionable specifics.

3 / 3

Actionability

Watch modes give concrete invocation commands ('/canary-watch https://myapp.com --interval 5m --duration 2h') and thresholds are specific, but there is no executable implementation code or commands for how the checks are actually performed — it describes the contract rather than instructing execution.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Watch modes and threshold tiers are clearly sequenced, but for a loop-based monitoring skill there is no explicit validation/feedback checkpoint (e.g., what to do on a critical alert beyond 'notify') and the recovery/escalation loop is only implied.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist; the skill is a single well-organized overview with clearly signaled sections (When to Use, How It Works, Output, Integration) and no nested references, which is appropriate structure for a sub-50-line single-purpose skill.

3 / 3

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Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, concise description: it states concrete capabilities, gives explicit 'when to use' triggers, and uses natural trigger terms. Third-person voice is maintained throughout, with no fluff or over-claims.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'checks HTTP endpoints, SSE streams, static assets, console errors, and performance regressions' — naming exactly what the skill inspects rather than vague capability claims.

3 / 3

Completeness

Answers both what ('monitor and verify a deployed URL... checks HTTP endpoints, SSE streams...') and when ('after releases... after deploys, merges, or dependency upgrades') with explicit trigger guidance.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural user phrasing — 'after deploys, merges, or dependency upgrades' and 'Smoke / canary / post-deploy verification' — terms a user would actually say when reaching for this skill.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Carves a clear niche — post-deploy URL monitoring with canary/smoke semantics — unlikely to conflict with pre-deploy or general QA skills; the named checks (SSE, static assets, perf baselines) are distinctive.

3 / 3

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12

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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.

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15

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16

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