Draft professional follow-up emails to contacts made at conferences - not too pushy, but memorable.
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Discovery
32%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, but it lacks an explicit 'Use when...' clause, misses common trigger term variations (networking, trade show, event), and doesn't list multiple concrete actions beyond 'draft'. It would benefit from expanded trigger terms and explicit selection guidance.
Suggestions
Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g., 'Use when the user asks to write follow-up emails 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 specific 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 | It describes what the skill does (draft follow-up emails) but lacks any explicit 'Use when...' clause or trigger guidance, which per the rubric should cap completeness at 2, and the 'what' is also only moderately detailed, placing this at 1-2. Given the missing 'when' clause entirely, scoring at 1. | 1 / 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 | The combination of 'conference contacts' and 'follow-up emails' is fairly specific, but it could overlap with general email drafting skills or broader networking/communication skills without clearer boundaries. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 7 / 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 has nothing to do with drafting networking follow-up emails. The actual task-specific content (Parameters, Email Components, Output sections) is buried among verbose template sections like Risk Assessment, Security Checklist, Lifecycle Status, and a generic Response Template. The skill would be far more effective as a concise guide with an example email, tone guidelines, and clear drafting steps.
Suggestions
Remove all generic boilerplate sections (Risk Assessment, Security Checklist, Lifecycle Status, Evaluation Criteria, Response Template, Input Validation) and focus on email-drafting-specific content.
Add 1-2 concrete example emails showing the desired output for different tones (formal vs warm), so Claude knows exactly what 'not too pushy, but memorable' looks like.
Replace the generic workflow with email-specific steps: gather context → draft subject line → write greeting with conference reference → add value proposition → include soft call-to-action → review tone.
Eliminate circular section references ('See ## Usage above') and consolidate duplicate content into a single, well-organized flow.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Extremely verbose and repetitive. The skill restates its purpose 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. Most 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 (--contact, --topic, --conference), and the Email Components section lists what should be in the output. However, there's no actual email example or template showing what good output looks like, and the skill relies entirely on an external script (scripts/main.py) without showing what it does or how to draft emails without it. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The workflow section is entirely generic ('Confirm the user objective', 'Validate that the request matches the documented scope') with no email-drafting-specific steps. There are no validation checkpoints for the actual email content quality, and the 'Example run plan' is boilerplate that could apply to any script. The actual process of drafting a follow-up email is never clearly sequenced. | 1 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The document is a monolithic wall of text with many redundant sections. Multiple sections reference each other circularly ('See ## Prerequisites above' when Prerequisites comes after). The single reference to references/audit-reference.md is vague. Content is poorly organized with duplicate information spread across 'Example Usage', 'Usage', 'Workflow', and 'Implementation Details' sections. | 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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