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skill-scout

Search existing local, marketplace, GitHub, and web skill sources before creating a new skill. Use when the user wants to create, build, fork, or find a skill for a workflow.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

75%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.

A well-structured, actionable workflow with concrete commands and a clear ranking/vetting process. Weakest spots are the lack of an explicit feedback loop after vetting and minor noise plus template placeholders that slightly reduce executability.

Suggestions

Add an explicit feedback loop to Step 4: after vetting, state what to do if a match fails review (reject, request user decision, or fall back to the next candidate) so the workflow has a validate-decide-retry path.

Remove the "Source: salvaged from stale community PR #1232" line and the "Local sources are preferred because..." justification to tighten conciseness.

Replace the literal "keyword|synonym" placeholders in the find/grep examples with a brief note that they must be substituted with the captured terms, or show a concrete worked example, to make the commands copy-paste ready.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is largely lean and assumes Claude's competence, but incidental noise like "Source: salvaged from stale community PR #1232" and the justification "Local sources are preferred because..." could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete executable commands (find, gh search repos, gh search code, web queries) and a ranked decision table are provided, but the literal "keyword|synonym" placeholders require substitution, leaving a minor gap.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Six steps are clearly sequenced with a vetting checkpoint in Step 4, but there is no explicit validate-fix-retry feedback loop for the security review of external matches.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Content is well organized into clearly signaled sections and is appropriately self-contained, though at ~134 lines it exceeds the simple-skill threshold that would let a no-reference skill score 5 on organization alone.

4 / 5

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Description

83%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 concise, well-structured description that explicitly answers both what and when with natural trigger terms. Minor room to broaden keyword synonyms and sharpen distinctiveness from related audit/search skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Search existing local, marketplace, GitHub, and web skill sources" names the domain and enumerates four concrete source channels, but stops short of comprehensive coverage of distinct search actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

It clearly states what (search existing sources before creating a skill) and explicitly when ("Use when the user wants to create, build, fork, or find a skill") with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"create, build, fork, or find a skill" are natural phrases users say, giving good keyword coverage, though a few common synonyms (e.g. "make a skill") are only partially represented.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The search-before-create niche is mostly distinct with clear triggers, but sibling skills like skill-stocktake and search-first create minor overlap risk on adjacent intents.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
affaan-m/ECC
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