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cfo-advisor

Financial leadership for startups and scaling companies. Financial modeling, unit economics, fundraising strategy, cash management, and board financial packages. Use when building financial models, analyzing unit economics, planning fundraising, managing cash runway, preparing board materials, or when user mentions CFO, burn rate, runway, fundraising, unit economics, LTV, CAC, term sheets, or financial strategy.

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SKILL.md
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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.

A dense, well-organized strategic reference with concrete commands, metric thresholds, and a quality-loop protocol, weakened by redundancy (duplicated keywords and reference listings), generic CoT padding, soft rather than explicit validation checkpoints, and references to bundle files that are not present.

Suggestions

Remove the 'Keywords' section (it duplicates the description) and consolidate the 'Core Responsibilities' and 'Resources' sections so each reference file is listed once.

Replace the generic 'Chain of Thought...show all math' guidance with skill-specific validation gates, e.g. a numbered workflow for model building that requires downside-first scenarios and explicit validate-before-act checkpoints for cuts/fundraising/board outputs.

Bundle the referenced files (references/financial_planning.md, references/fundraising_playbook.md, references/cash_management.md and the three scripts/*.py) so the signaled navigation actually resolves, or inline the essential mechanics and drop the dangling references.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly dense and token-efficient (tables of metrics, targets, red flags) without explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the 'Keywords' line duplicates the description, 'Core Responsibilities' and 'Resources' re-list the same reference mapping, and the generic 'Chain of Thought...Show all math' section states guidance Claude already applies.

3 / 5

Actionability

Quick Start gives copy-paste executable commands ('python scripts/burn_rate_calculator.py') and the Metrics/Red Flags/Proactive Triggers sections give concrete thresholds and named artifacts, but the core modeling mechanics are offloaded to referenced files rather than shown inline.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A loose sequence exists (Key Questions -> metrics -> conservative reasoning -> Internal Quality Loop) with a verify/tag-confidence feedback loop, but for a skill driving consequential decisions (budget cuts, fundraising, board outputs) the validation checkpoints are soft review steps rather than explicit technical validate-then-proceed gates, triggering the cap.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-organized with one-level-deep, clearly-signaled references (a Core Responsibilities 'Reference' column plus a Resources section), but the referenced bundle files (references/*.md, scripts/*.py) do not actually exist on disk, so navigation points to missing destinations.

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.

A strong, well-structured description that clearly states capabilities and explicit, multi-trigger usage conditions with natural CFO-domain vocabulary. Minor room to tighten a few capability entries and surface a couple more synonyms directly in the description.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete capability areas and actions ('Financial modeling, unit economics, fundraising strategy...building financial models, analyzing unit economics, planning fundraising, managing cash runway, preparing board materials'), though a few entries are domain nouns rather than tightly discrete verbs, keeping it just under the comprehensive-coverage anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (the capability list) and 'when' ('Use when building financial models, analyzing unit economics, planning fundraising...or when user mentions CFO, burn rate...') with concrete multi-trigger phrasing.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural terms users would say ('CFO, burn rate, runway, fundraising, unit economics, LTV, CAC, term sheets') with the 'when user mentions...' phrasing, but a few common variants (e.g. dilution, cap table, cash flow) live only in the body, not the description.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The strategic-CFO framing combined with specialized vocabulary (burn multiple, term sheets, cap table, LTV/CAC) carves a clear niche with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk versus a generic finance skill.

5 / 5

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18

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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

CriteriaDescriptionResult

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 16 missing

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Total

15

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16

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alirezarezvani/claude-skills
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