energy-procurement

Codified expertise for electricity and gas procurement, tariff optimization, demand charge management, renewable PPA evaluation, and multi-facility energy cost management. Informed by energy procurement managers with 15+ years experience at large commercial and industrial consumers. Includes market structure analysis, hedging strategies, load profiling, and sustainability reporting frameworks. Use when procuring energy, optimizing tariffs, managing demand charges, evaluating PPAs, or developing energy strategies.

Quality

82%

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The canonical home for this skill is tdg-personal/energy-procurement

Quality

Content

65%

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

A richly detailed, highly actionable body that earns its expertise, but it is verbose in places and monolithic. Tightening general-concept explanation, adding validation checkpoints to the procurement workflow, and splitting heavy reference sections into bundle files would lift the weaker dimensions.

Suggestions

Trim general market-concept explanations (LMP, RECs, Scope 2, regulated vs. deregulated) to one-line reminders and keep only the expert-specific figures and tactics, to improve conciseness.

Add explicit validation/feedback checkpoints to the procurement workflow (e.g., 'Validate total-cost-of-energy model before contract execution; if hedge ratio breaches treasury limits, re-layer before signing') so irreversible commitments get a review loop.

Move the Core Knowledge and Key Edge Cases blocks into reference files (e.g. references/CORE_KNOWLEDGE.md, references/EDGE_CASES.md) and link them one level deep from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The 229-line body is dense with genuinely expert detail (ratchet percentages, ERCOT Uri figures, ISO-specific rules), but much prose explains general market concepts (LMP, RECs, Scope 2, regulated vs. deregulated markets) Claude already knows and could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete, executable guidance for an instruction-only skill: explicit formulas (Load factor = Total kWh / (Peak kW × Hours)), thresholded decision frameworks (">5% of budget," "bottom third of 5-year range"), example negotiation scripts, and a trigger/action/timeline escalation table.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	"How It Works" and the decision frameworks give a clear sequenced process, but there are no explicit validate→fix→retry checkpoints for irreversible long-term commitments (10–25 year PPAs, multi-year supply contracts), which the rubric caps at 2.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized with clear section headers, but it is a single monolithic file well over 50 lines with no one-level-deep reference split; large reference blocks (Core Knowledge, Key Edge Cases) that should live in separate files are inline.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

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 names concrete capabilities, supplies explicit trigger terms, and cleanly delineates a specialized niche. It answers both what the skill does and when to invoke it without padding.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — "electricity and gas procurement, tariff optimization, demand charge management, renewable PPA evaluation" plus "market structure analysis, hedging strategies, load profiling, and sustainability reporting frameworks," matching the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (the listed capabilities and "Includes market structure analysis...") and when (the "Use when..." clause), satisfying the top anchor.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	The "Use when procuring energy, optimizing tariffs, managing demand charges, evaluating PPAs, or developing energy strategies" clause gives good coverage of natural phrases a user would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche — C&I energy procurement — with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills; no overlap risk with generic finance or ops skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

81%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: affaan-m/ECC
Path: skills/energy-procurement/SKILL.md
Commit: 754b8dd

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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