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/cs:cto-review <plan> — Architecture and scaling interrogation. Tech debt, scaling cliffs, team scaling, build-vs-buy. Use when committing to an architecture, planning for 10x load, or weighing a rebuild against a vendor.

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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 well-organized forcing-questions skill with concrete commands, a clear workflow, and a useful output template. The main improvements are tightening minor redundancy and making external script references more robust.

Suggestions

Consolidate the cs-ciso-advisor cross-check so it appears in only one place (e.g. Workflow or Routing) to reduce redundancy.

Make the analyzer script invocations more robust by resolving the fragile '../../../c-level-advisor/...' relative paths or documenting the expected working directory.

Trim the output-format template to the essential fields, or move the full template into a referenced file to improve token efficiency.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is efficient with no concept over-explanation, but the large output-format template and repeated cs-ciso cross-check (in Q6, Workflow step 3, and Routing) could be trimmed slightly.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable commands (the two analyzer scripts) and a copy-paste-ready output template, but the script paths use fragile relative '../../../' references and the questions are guiding rather than fully executable.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The four-step Workflow is clearly sequenced and the SHIP/SHARPEN/BLOCK verdict acts as a terminal checkpoint; this is a review (non-destructive) skill so heavy validation checkpoints are not required, leaving only minor gaps.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clear sections with one-level-deep, clearly signaled references (scripts, related skill, SLO architect, routing), though the references point to paths outside the skill bundle rather than to local bundle files.

4 / 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 what the command does and when to use it with concrete trigger phrases. Minor gains are available by sharpening the action verbs and adding a few more natural synonyms.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('Architecture and scaling interrogation') and lists several concrete sub-areas ('Tech debt, scaling cliffs, team scaling, build-vs-buy'), but these are interrogation topics rather than discrete executable actions, leaving minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Architecture and scaling interrogation' with the four sub-areas) and when ('Use when committing to an architecture, planning for 10x load, or weighing a rebuild against a vendor') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases a leader would say ('committing to an architecture', 'planning for 10x load', 'weighing a rebuild against a vendor', 'build-vs-buy'), but misses common synonyms or variations.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The CTO/scaling niche and specific triggers are mostly distinct, with only minor overlap risk against the sibling /cs:ciso-review and /cs:cfo-review skills.

4 / 5

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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

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relative_links

Relative link issues: 2 suspicious

Warning

Total

15

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16

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Repository
alirezarezvani/claude-skills
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