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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

81%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.

The body is a well-sequenced, actionable decision workflow: concrete search commands, an explicit vetting checklist, ranking criteria, and a user-decision gate. Its main deductions are small — a few trimmable lines and no fallback guidance for unavailable search tools.

Suggestions

Remove the "Source: salvaged from stale community PR #1232 by redminwang" provenance line and the Related section listing non-bundled skills — neither helps execution and both cost tokens.

Add a brief fallback for environments without gh or web search (e.g., "if gh is unavailable, use web search with the site:github.com query") to make the remote-search step robust.

Consider moving the full example tables into a short examples reference so SKILL.md stays a lean overview if the skill grows.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence — commands are given without library tutorials — but trimmable remnants remain, e.g. "Source: salvaged from stale community PR #1232 by redminwang" and a Related section listing three skills not bundled with this one. Anchor 4 (efficient, minor trimmable instances) fits better than 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, mostly copy-paste-ready commands (find/grep/gh search) plus explicit ranking rules, a decision-options table, and worked example tables. Minor gaps: search commands rely on placeholder "keyword|synonym" substitution and there is no fallback when gh or web search tools are unavailable — anchor 4 rather than fully-ready anchor 5.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Six clearly sequenced steps with an explicit validation checkpoint (Step 4's vetting checklist: read frontmatter, look for unexpected commands/network calls, check maintenance) before any adoption, plus a decision gate in Step 6 ("Only create a new skill after the user chooses that path"). The searches are read-only, so no destructive-operation validation is missing.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist, and the single file is well-sectioned with clear headers and inline examples that are easy to navigate. However, at ~135 body lines it exceeds the under-50-line simple-skill case, and the full example tables (Result Table, User-Facing Summary) could be split out — good structure with minor organization gaps, matching anchor 4.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Description

95%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.

The description is a strong example: it states a concrete capability across four enumerated sources and pairs it with an explicit, natural trigger clause using verb synonyms. The only improvement space is mentioning the vetting/ranking outcomes beyond raw search.

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Specificity

"Search existing local, marketplace, GitHub, and web skill sources" enumerates four concrete source venues, but the description covers only the search action — vetting, ranking, and presenting results from the body are omitted, a minor coverage gap consistent with anchor 4 rather than the fully comprehensive anchor 5.

4 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are explicit: a clear "what" (search local, marketplace, GitHub, and web skill sources before creating a new skill) and a concrete "Use when..." trigger clause, exactly matching the anchor-5 pattern.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"Use when the user wants to create, build, fork, or find a skill for a workflow" covers the natural verb synonyms users say (create/build, find/fork) for this domain; no file extensions apply, and only marginal phrasings like "make a skill" are missing.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It carves out a clear niche — searching existing skills before creating a new one — with triggers ("create, build, fork, or find a skill") distinct from generic search or document skills; only minimal overlap risk with adjacent skill-discovery tools.

5 / 5

Total

19

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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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

affaan-m/ECC

Path

skills/skill-scout/SKILL.md

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