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Practical home and homelab network planning for gateways, switches, access points, IP ranges, DHCP reservations, DNS, cabling, and common beginner mistakes. Use when planning or fixing a home or homelab network — gateway, switch, AP, IP ranges, DHCP, DNS, or cabling.

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Quality

Content

83%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

An efficient, opinionated planning guide that assumes competence and provides copy-paste-ready design artifacts (IP plan, naming conventions, hardware selection table, anti-patterns). The main weakness is the example workflows: sequences are clear but lack the validation/verification checkpoints the rubric expects for network changes.

Suggestions

Add verification steps to each example workflow, e.g., after "Set DHCP reservations for NAS, Pi, and any SSH hosts", add a checkpoint like "Verify each reservation is active (lease table or ping the reserved address) before moving on".

Include a short validation checklist for the Beginner Upgrade plan, such as confirming exactly one DHCP server remains active after disabling duplicates on secondary routers/APs.

In the VLAN-Ready Plan, add an explicit post-step to test that inter-VLAN firewall rules behave as expected once segmentation is eventually enabled, so future changes have a feedback loop.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and opinionated throughout — no space is spent explaining what DHCP, VLANs, or NAT are; content is delivered as compact tables, a tight ASCII topology, and short imperative lists ("Label both ends of each cable and keep a simple port map"), so every token earns its place.

5 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is directly implementable: a concrete IP plan with subnet assignments and per-subnet conventions ("Gateway convention: .1 / Infrastructure reservations: .2 through .49 / Dynamic DHCP pool: .50 through .240"), specific naming under home.arpa, a five-option gateway selection table, and two numbered example plans. Per the rubric's instruction-skill note, the absence of code is not penalized.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Both example workflows ("Beginner Upgrade", "VLAN-Ready Plan") present clear 4-step sequences, but neither includes validation checkpoints — e.g., verify a reservation took effect or confirm no duplicate DHCP server remains after "Disable duplicate DHCP servers on secondary routers or APs" — matching the "steps listed but validation gaps" anchor rather than the level above.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized single-file skill with clear sections (When to Use, How It Works, IP Plan, DHCP And DNS, Cabling And Wi-Fi, Examples, Anti-Patterns, See Also) and no references to non-existent bundle files; at ~125 lines everything appropriately lives inline, though it slightly exceeds the compact single-file ideal, and the See Also cross-links are skill pointers rather than navigable bundle references.

4 / 5

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Description

87%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 description: third-person, concise, with a specific capability enumeration and an explicit "Use when" trigger clause mirroring the what/when structure of the rubric's top examples. Only minor gaps — slightly generic action verbs and a few missing natural synonyms such as Wi-Fi or router.

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Specificity

Enumerates concrete capabilities — "gateways, switches, access points, IP ranges, DHCP reservations, DNS, cabling, and common beginner mistakes" — but the actions themselves ("planning", "fixing") are somewhat generic, leaving minor gaps versus the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Practical home and homelab network planning for gateways, switches, access points, IP ranges, DHCP reservations, DNS, cabling") and when ("Use when planning or fixing a home or homelab network — gateway, switch, AP, IP ranges, DHCP, DNS, or cabling") with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage including the synonym pair "access points"/"AP", plus "home network", "homelab", "DHCP", "DNS", "cabling"; a few common user phrasings like "Wi-Fi", "router", or "subnet" are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche — home and homelab network planning/design — with distinct triggers that would not naturally fire for enterprise networking, interface health, or config-validation skills; minimal conflict risk.

5 / 5

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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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

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