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journal-club-presenter

Generate journal club slides with background, critique, and discussion.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Security

Quality

Content

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

The skill provides a workable workflow skeleton and real bundle files, but is weighed down by generic boilerplate, lacks executable guidance for its core slide-generation task, and inlines content that belongs in separate reference files.

Suggestions

Remove or relocate generic boilerplate (Security Checklist, Risk Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Lifecycle Status) into a reference file or drop it, to improve conciseness.

Add concrete, executable guidance for the core task — e.g., an actual invocation of scripts/main.py with real inputs and the expected slide structure, rather than 'produce a bounded deliverable'.

Replace implicit validation mentions with explicit checkpoints (e.g., a verify step after generating the outline before expanding to full slides).

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Conciseness

The ~190-line body carries substantial generic boilerplate (Security Checklist, Risk Assessment table, Evaluation Criteria, Lifecycle Status, Output Requirements) and repeats py_compile three times, which is noticeably padded.

2 / 5

Actionability

Real executable commands and an existing scripts/main.py are present, but the core slide-generation task has no executable guidance — only abstract phrasing like 'produce a bounded deliverable' and a bare one-line example.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear five-step sequence with a fallback path exists, but validation checkpoints are implicit ('validate the request', 'stop early') rather than concrete verify-then-proceed loops.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Structure is section-headed with a real one-level-deep reference (references/audit-reference.md) and scripts/main.py, but large amounts of generic boilerplate are inlined rather than split into reference files.

3 / 5

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Description

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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 states a clear, specific deliverable and its components, but lacks an explicit trigger ('Use when...') and broader natural-language synonyms, which limits completeness and trigger-term quality.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming natural triggers (e.g., 'Use when preparing journal club presentations, paper critiques, or lab meeting slide decks').

Broaden trigger terms with synonyms users actually say: 'paper presentation', 'literature review', 'critical appraisal'.

Distinguish from generic slide skills by naming the academic-critique framing explicitly in the description.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names a concrete deliverable ('journal club slides') and three component actions (background, critique, discussion), but coverage is not comprehensive beyond the single deliverable.

3 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear (generate journal club slides with background, critique, and discussion) but there is no explicit 'Use when...' trigger, capping completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes the natural domain term 'journal club slides' but omits common synonyms and variations like 'paper presentation', 'literature review', 'critical appraisal', or file extensions.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'journal club' niche is fairly distinct with minor overlap risk against generic presentation or slide-generation skills.

4 / 5

Total

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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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
aipoch/medical-research-skills
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