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deepread

Use when the user asks to deeply read a book, article, PDF, or document set; extract claims and evidence; build a knowledge map; or learn through Feynman explanation and recall. Covers quick, deep, map, Feynman, and whole-book reading modes.

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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-structured, largely self-contained analytical workflow with concrete output formats, exact taxonomies, and a clear mode-selection table. Its one real defect is that two of the five modes depend on reference files that do not exist in the bundle, breaking navigation for exactly the modes the description promotes.

Suggestions

Create the missing references/knowledge-map.md and references/feynman.md files (or inline their essential procedures into SKILL.md) so the map and feynman modes are actually executable as written.

Trim the Anti-Patterns section of items that restate workflow rules already stated above (e.g., data provenance, prompt injection) to reduce token cost without losing information.

Inline a minimal fallback for each referenced mode — e.g., a one-line description of the map node/edge types or the Feynman recall cycle — so the skill degrades gracefully when the reference files are unavailable.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is instruction-dense — mode table, evidence-ledger field table, exact confidence labels, a good/bad central-claim example — with almost no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. Minor redundancy: the Anti-Patterns section restates rules already given in the workflow (data provenance from step 5, prompt injection from the header).

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, executable guidance throughout for an instruction-only skill: exact ledger fields, exact relationship types (supports, explains, qualifies, contradicts, illustrates), exact four confidence labels, and a worked good/bad example. The gap is that the map and Feynman deliverables defer to reference files that are not present in the bundle.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Seven steps are clearly sequenced with an explicit up-front validation checkpoint ("Confirm that extraction is usable before analyzing it" plus a stop condition if extraction is incomplete). Not a destructive or batch operation, so the validation cap does not apply, but there is no fix-and-retry feedback loop beyond the source check.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Section structure is clear and references are well signaled in the mode table and workflow, but the bundle contains no references/ directory — both references/knowledge-map.md and references/feynman.md are dangling, so the map and feynman modes cannot actually follow their prescribed procedures.

3 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

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 description that explicitly answers both what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete natural-language triggers and a clear statement of the five modes. The main gaps are minor: a generic leading verb ("deeply read"), missing common synonyms such as "close reading" and "mind map", and no disambiguation against adjacent summarization skills within the description itself.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists several concrete actions — "extract claims and evidence; build a knowledge map; or learn through Feynman explanation and recall" — but "deeply read" is generic and the deliverables of the map and book modes are not enumerated, leaving minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Opens with an explicit "Use when the user asks to..." clause containing concrete trigger phrases, states the what (extract claims, build a knowledge map, Feynman explanation and recall), and closes with explicit scope ("Covers quick, deep, map, Feynman, and whole-book reading modes").

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases users would say are present ("deeply read", "knowledge map", "Feynman", "claims and evidence", "PDF", "book"), but common variants such as "close reading" and "mind map" appear only in the body, not the description.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The comprehension and argument-reconstruction niche is clearly distinct from research or summarization skills, but generic triggers like "PDF" and "book" carry minor overlap risk with PDF-processing and summarizer skills, and the description itself carries none of the disambiguation the body provides.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 3 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Path

.gemini/skills/deepread/SKILL.md

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