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knowledge-base-search

Search and locate relevant content within a local knowledge base (files, indices, or PageIndex). Use when you need verifiable citations (file + page/paragraph) to support answers from local sources.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

67%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 search workflow with concrete commands and examples, held back by notable redundancy between the Example Usage and Implementation Details sections and some over-explanation of index concepts. Tightening the duplication would improve token efficiency.

Suggestions

Merge the overlapping 'Example Usage' and 'Implementation Details' workflows into a single sequenced procedure to remove the duplicated index-confirmation, query-strategy, ranking, and citation sections.

Trim explanations of what filename/content/vector/PageIndex indices are (concepts Claude already knows) and keep only the decision guidance for which to use when.

Add an explicit output-validation checkpoint in the workflow (e.g., verify each emitted citation's file_path + location resolves to the quoted snippet before finalizing hit_list.csv).

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient but the 'Example Usage' and 'Implementation Details' sections overlap heavily (both re-cover index confirmation, query strategy, ranking, and citation resolution), and several index-type explanations (filename/content/vector/PageIndex) restate concepts Claude already knows.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable commands (`glob("./kb/**/*.md")`, `grep -RIn "..." ./kb/`), explicit ranking weights, and a complete CSV example with real columns; minor gaps remain since commands are labeled illustrative rather than a runnable script.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear five-step sequence (confirm index -> build query -> execute -> filter/rank -> output) with a fallback path for missing/corrupted indices; the operation is read-only so the destructive-cap does not apply, though an inline output-verification checkpoint is only implicit rather than explicit.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized sections with one-level-deep, clearly signaled references to real bundle files (`assets/hit_list_template.csv`, `references/guide.md`); however SKILL.md inlines substantial implementation detail that a pure overview would defer to the reference.

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 that clearly states both capability and trigger conditions in third person, with concrete citation-oriented language. Minor additional natural synonyms could push trigger_term_quality higher.

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Specificity

Names the domain ('local knowledge base') and concrete actions ('Search and locate relevant content') plus the output form ('verifiable citations (file + page/paragraph)'), listing several specific capabilities with only minor gaps in coverage.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Search and locate relevant content within a local knowledge base...') and when ('Use when you need verifiable citations...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms users would say ('knowledge base', 'search', 'citations', 'local sources') alongside the more technical ('indices', 'PageIndex'); good coverage though a few common synonyms (e.g. 'documentation', 'find quotes') are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a clear niche (local-only knowledge base retrieval with verifiable file+page/paragraph citations) with distinct triggers, giving minimal conflict risk with other skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

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Validation15 / 16 Passed

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

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