Draft professional follow-up emails to contacts made at conferences - not too pushy, but memorable.
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Discovery
50%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 communicates a clear use case — drafting conference follow-up emails — with a nice tonal qualifier ('not too pushy, but memorable'). However, it lacks an explicit 'Use when...' clause, misses common trigger term variations (e.g., 'networking', 'trade show', 'event'), and could list more specific actions to strengthen specificity.
Suggestions
Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g., 'Use when the user asks to write a follow-up email after a conference, networking event, trade show, or professional meeting.'
Include additional trigger term variations such as 'networking', 'trade show', 'event follow-up', 'thank you email', and 'post-conference outreach'.
List more concrete actions beyond 'draft', such as 'personalize based on conversation notes, suggest subject lines, adjust tone for different relationship levels'.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | It names the domain (follow-up emails after conferences) and one action (draft), plus qualitative guidance ('not too pushy, but memorable'), but doesn't list multiple concrete actions like template variations, personalization, or scheduling. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | The 'what' is reasonably clear (draft professional follow-up emails), but there is no explicit 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance — the 'when' is only implied by the context of conferences. | 2 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes natural terms like 'follow-up emails', 'conferences', and 'contacts', which users might say, but misses common variations like 'networking', 'trade show', 'event', 'meeting follow-up', or 'thank you email'. | 2 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | It's fairly specific to conference follow-ups, which helps distinguish it from generic email skills, but could overlap with general email drafting or networking communication skills without clearer boundaries. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 8 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
14%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 content that obscures the actual task-specific guidance. The core email drafting instructions are minimal—just a list of components without examples—while the majority of the document is filled with template sections (Risk Assessment, Security Checklist, Evaluation Criteria, Lifecycle Status) that provide no value for Claude. The skill would benefit enormously from removing boilerplate and adding concrete email examples showing tone calibration.
Suggestions
Remove all generic boilerplate sections (Risk Assessment, Security Checklist, Lifecycle Status, Evaluation Criteria, Response Template) and reduce the document to under 50 lines focused on email drafting guidance.
Add 2-3 concrete example emails showing different tones (formal/casual/warm) with specific input parameters, so Claude understands what 'not too pushy but memorable' looks like in practice.
Consolidate the three competing workflow/process sections into a single clear sequence: receive contact details → draft email with specific tone → suggest subject lines → propose follow-up timeline.
Eliminate circular cross-references ('See ## Prerequisites above') and ensure the document flows logically from top to bottom.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Extremely verbose and repetitive. The skill restates its own description multiple times, includes boilerplate sections (Risk Assessment, Security Checklist, Lifecycle Status, Evaluation Criteria) that add no value for Claude, and has circular references like 'See ## Prerequisites above' and 'See ## Usage above' pointing to sections that don't precede them. Much of the content is generic template filler rather than task-specific guidance. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | The Parameters section and Usage example provide concrete CLI commands with specific flags, which is helpful. However, the actual email drafting guidance is vague—'Email Components' lists items like 'Value proposition' and 'Soft ask' without examples of what good follow-up emails look like. For a skill about drafting emails, there are no example inputs/outputs showing actual email text, tone calibration, or what 'not too pushy but memorable' means in practice. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | There are multiple competing workflow sections (Example Usage run plan, Implementation Details, Workflow) that are generic and don't specifically address the email drafting task. The steps are abstract ('Confirm the user objective,' 'Validate that the request matches the documented scope') rather than concrete email-drafting steps. No validation checkpoints specific to email quality or tone are provided. | 1 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The document is a monolithic wall of text with many sections that contain generic boilerplate. References point to files (references/audit-reference.md, scripts/main.py) that aren't provided in the bundle. Multiple sections cross-reference each other circularly ('See ## Prerequisites above' appears before Prerequisites). The content that matters (email components, parameters) is buried among irrelevant sections like Security Checklist and Lifecycle Status. | 1 / 3 |
Total | 5 / 12 Passed |
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.
Validation — 10 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 10 / 11 Passed | |
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