cisco-ios-patterns

Cisco IOS and IOS-XE review patterns for show commands, config hierarchy, wildcard masks, ACL placement, interface hygiene, and safe change-window verification. Use when reading, writing, or reviewing Cisco IOS / IOS-XE configuration or planning a change window.

Quality

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Content

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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.

A well-structured, actionable reference with concrete commands and an explicit validated change workflow. The main improvement opportunity is progressive disclosure — moving the long command catalogs into a bundled reference file — but the single-file organization is already strong.

Suggestions

Move the 'Read-Only Collection' command catalog and wildcard-mask/ACL examples into a bundled references/ file (e.g. READ-ONLY-COMMANDS.md) and link to it from SKILL.md to tighten the overview and improve progressive_disclosure.

Consider extracting the 'Interface Hygiene' and 'Change-Window Verification' snippets into a short checklist reference so the core SKILL.md stays a concise overview.

Add explicit one-line signaling (e.g. 'See references/READ-ONLY-COMMANDS.md for the full catalog') when splitting content out, so navigation stays one level deep.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Lean and efficient throughout — concrete `show` command lists, a wildcard-mask table, and config snippets with no padding or explanation of basic concepts Claude already knows; every token earns its place.	5 / 5
Actionability	Copy-paste-ready `show` commands, executable config snippets, a wildcard-mask translation table, and a concrete ACL placement checklist cover the common review cases specifically.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The 'Operating Rules' section gives an explicit 5-step sequence with a validation checkpoint ('Re-read state, compare to the baseline, then save only after validation') and the Change-Window Verification section adds before/after evidence commands for a destructive change context.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into clearly labeled sections with no nested references and a useful 'See Also' map to related agents/skills; at ~157 lines some reference material (e.g. the full read-only command catalog) could be split into a bundled file, keeping it just short of a 5.	4 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Description

92%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.

A strong, specific description that names concrete review capabilities and provides explicit 'Use when' trigger guidance in third person. Minor room for more natural synonym/extension coverage, but conflict risk is low.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete capabilities — 'show commands, config hierarchy, wildcard masks, ACL placement, interface hygiene, and safe change-window verification' — with comprehensive coverage of the review domain.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (review patterns for the listed domains) and 'when' ('Use when reading, writing, or reviewing Cisco IOS / IOS-XE configuration or planning a change window') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Strong natural keywords ('Cisco IOS', 'IOS-XE', 'config', 'ACL', 'wildcard masks', 'change window') that a user would say, but coverage leans on product jargon with few synonyms or extension variants.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Scoped tightly to Cisco IOS/IOS-XE with distinct, vendor-specific triggers, giving it a clear niche and minimal overlap with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: affaan-m/ECC
Path: skills/cisco-ios-patterns/SKILL.md
Commit: 06c5e11

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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