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molecular-review-workflow

Generates academic reviews for molecules in diseases using PubMed research. Invoke when user needs biomedical literature review with Vancouver citation format.

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Quality

51%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

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Suggest reviewing before use

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

27%

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

This skill is heavily padded with generic boilerplate template content that adds no value specific to molecular review generation. The core domain-specific content (workflow process, quality rules, inputs, environment setup) is buried among repetitive generic sections about validation, safety, and output contracts. The skill would benefit enormously from stripping all boilerplate and focusing on concrete, executable examples of PubMed-based review generation.

Suggestions

Remove all generic boilerplate sections (When to Use, When Not to Use, Required Inputs, Recommended Workflow, Output Contract, Validation and Safety Rules, Failure Handling, Deterministic Output Rules, Completion Checklist) and keep only the domain-specific content about molecular review generation.

Add a concrete, executable example showing the full command invocation with specific disease/molecule parameters (e.g., `python scripts/pubmed_api.py --disease 'breast cancer' --molecule 'tamoxifen'`) and a sample snippet of the expected output in Vancouver citation format.

Consolidate the two workflow descriptions into a single clear sequence with explicit validation checkpoints between steps (e.g., verify PubMed returned results before proceeding to review generation).

Provide the actual bundle files (pubmed_api.py, validate_skill.py, helper scripts) or at minimum document their interfaces so the skill content can reference them meaningfully rather than generically.

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Conciseness

Extremely verbose and repetitive. The skill contains multiple redundant sections (e.g., 'When to Use' and 'When Not to Use' are generic boilerplate, 'Required Inputs' repeats earlier content, 'Recommended Workflow' duplicates the 'Workflow Process' and 'Example Usage' sections). Phrases like 'Scope-focused workflow aligned to:' followed by a verbatim copy of the description waste tokens. Much of the content is generic template filler that teaches Claude nothing specific about molecular review generation.

1 / 3

Actionability

There are some concrete elements—environment variable setup, script paths, and a workflow process outline—but the actual execution is vague. There's no executable example showing how to invoke the skill with specific disease/molecule parameters, no sample command with arguments, and no example of what the output review looks like. The 'Example Usage' section says 'See ## Usage above' circularly, and the run plan is generic pseudocode-level guidance.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 5-step workflow process (Input Translation → Search Term Generation → PubMed Search → Result Processing → Review Generation) provides a clear sequence, and there are quality rules and a completion checklist. However, there are no explicit validation checkpoints between steps, no feedback loops for error recovery during the multi-step PubMed search process, and the failure handling section is generic rather than tied to specific workflow steps.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is a monolithic wall of text with no references to external files despite mentioning 'additional helper scripts under scripts/' and a validate_skill.py script. There are duplicate and overlapping sections (two 'When to Use' variants, two workflow descriptions, two validation sections, two input requirement sections) that could be consolidated. No bundle files are provided to support the referenced paths, and the structure is poorly organized with generic boilerplate sections interspersed with the actual skill-specific content.

1 / 3

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Description

75%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a reasonably well-crafted description that clearly defines a narrow biomedical niche and includes an explicit 'when to use' clause. Its main weaknesses are limited specificity in listing concrete actions (only 'generates academic reviews') and moderate trigger term coverage that could benefit from additional natural language variations users might employ.

Suggestions

Add more specific actions beyond 'generates academic reviews', e.g., 'searches PubMed for relevant studies, synthesizes findings, generates Vancouver-formatted citations, and produces structured literature reviews'.

Expand trigger terms with common user variations like 'literature search', 'drug-disease associations', 'research paper summary', 'systematic review', 'PubMed search', or 'citation generation'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (academic reviews, molecules in diseases, PubMed) and a key action (generates academic reviews), but doesn't list multiple concrete actions beyond the single generation task. It mentions Vancouver citation format which adds specificity.

2 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (generates academic reviews for molecules in diseases using PubMed research) and 'when' (invoke when user needs biomedical literature review with Vancouver citation format), with an explicit trigger clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes some relevant keywords like 'PubMed', 'biomedical literature review', 'Vancouver citation', 'molecules', and 'diseases', but misses common user variations like 'drug targets', 'therapeutic compounds', 'systematic review', 'citations', 'research summary', or 'PubMed search'.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive niche combining molecules-in-diseases focus, PubMed research, and Vancouver citation format. Very unlikely to conflict with other skills given the specific biomedical academic review domain.

3 / 3

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12

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Validation

90%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Warning

Total

10

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11

Passed

Repository
aipoch/medical-research-skills
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