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customs-trade-compliance

Codified expertise for customs documentation, tariff classification, duty optimization, restricted party screening, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Informed by trade compliance specialists with 15+ years experience. Includes HS classification logic, Incoterms application, FTA utilization, and penalty mitigation. Use when handling customs clearance, tariff classification, trade compliance, import/export documentation, or duty optimization.

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Quality

88%

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The canonical home for this skill is tdg-personal/customs-trade-compliance

SKILL.md
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Content

77%

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

A highly actionable, well-sequenced domain-expertise skill, but it is a monolithic wall of text with no progressive disclosure and some explanatory padding of concepts Claude already knows. Splitting reference material into bundled files and trimming background would lift the two weakest dimensions.

Suggestions

Move the longer reference material (Regional Specialties, Key Edge Cases, Communication Patterns/Templates, Escalation Protocols) into files under references/ and link to them one level deep, keeping SKILL.md as a concise overview — this directly addresses progressive_disclosure.

Trim background explanations of widely-known concepts (e.g., the definitional openings of 'HS Tariff Classification' and 'Incoterms 2020') and keep only the compliance-specific detail, citations, and decision rules to improve conciseness.

Consider extracting the Core Knowledge sections into a references/knowledge-base.md so the main body leads with When to Use, How It Works, and the Decision Frameworks.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense and mostly efficient with valuable regulatory specifics, but it also explains concepts Claude already knows (e.g., 'The Harmonized System is a 6-digit international nomenclature maintained by the WCO', 'Incoterms define the transfer of costs, risk, and responsibility'), so it could be tightened. It is not the verbose score-1 case, but not the lean score-3 case either.

2 / 3

Actionability

Guidance is concrete and executable: numbered decision trees, explicit formulas ('RVC = ((TV - VNM) / TV) × 100'), specific CFR/USC citations, escalation tables, and message templates — fully actionable for an instruction-only skill.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step processes (Classification Decision Logic, FTA Qualification Analysis, Valuation Method Selection, Screening Hit Assessment) are clearly sequenced with explicit validation/decision checkpoints such as 'Validate at the subheading level' and 'Never proceed with a transaction while a screening hit is unresolved.'

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is a ~260-line monolithic document with no bundle files and no references to separate files; well-sectioned, but content that could be split (Regional Specialties, Key Edge Cases, Communication Patterns) is all inline. Not score 1 because organization is good; not score 3 because there is no one-level-deep reference structure at all.

2 / 3

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12

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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, third-person description that covers concrete capabilities, natural trigger terms, and an explicit use-when clause with low conflict risk. No notable weaknesses.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'customs documentation, tariff classification, duty optimization, restricted party screening, and regulatory compliance' — matching the multi-action anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (the codified expertise domains) and when (an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause), matching the top anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The 'Use when handling customs clearance, tariff classification, trade compliance, import/export documentation, or duty optimization' clause gives natural terms a user would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The customs/trade-compliance niche with domain-specific triggers is clearly distinguishable and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

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12

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Validation

81%

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

Validation13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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metadata_version

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metadata_field

'metadata' should map string keys to string values

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

13

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16

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