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engineering-advanced-skills

Index of 37 advanced engineering agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenClaw. Use when browsing or choosing among the POWERFUL-tier engineering skills: agent design, RAG, MCP servers, CI/CD, database design, observability, security auditing, changelog/release automation, reliability (SLO/chaos/flags/operators), platform ops.

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Content

86%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is an excellent example of an index/catalog skill: lean, well-structured, with a navigable table pointing to one-level-deep sub-skills and concrete load commands. The only gaps are partial quick-start coverage across the listed agents and an implicit rather than spelled-out selection workflow.

Suggestions

Add quick-start commands for the other listed agents (Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenClaw) so the actionable guidance covers all five named targets.

Make the selection workflow explicit with a short numbered sequence (locate skill in table → read its folder SKILL.md → combine with engineering-team/ core skills as needed) rather than leaving it implicit in the rules.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean: two quick-start commands, a compact skill table, one navigation note, and two brief rules — no concept explanations or padding, and every element earns its place in an index skill.

5 / 5

Actionability

Provides copy-paste commands for Claude Code ('/read engineering/skills/agent-designer/SKILL.md') and Codex CLI ('npx agent-skills-cli add ...') plus concrete folder paths in the table, but only 2 of the 5 named agents get quick-start commands.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The browse-table → choose-skill → load-SKILL.md flow is clear and the rules reinforce loading only what is needed, but the sequence is implied rather than explicitly stepped; no validation is required for this non-destructive browsing task.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

This is a textbook overview: a single index table points one level deep to each of the 37 individual skill SKILL.md files, with clear folder columns and a note redirecting the merged release-management skill, making navigation easy.

5 / 5

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18

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20

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Description

83%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 is strong: it concisely states what the skill indexes and gives an explicit 'Use when...' trigger with concrete domain keywords. The main weakness is that the actionable verb is limited to browsing/choosing, which is appropriate for an index but keeps specificity just below the top anchor.

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Specificity

Names the domain (advanced engineering agent skills index) and lists many concrete covered areas (agent design, RAG, MCP servers, CI/CD, database design, observability, security auditing, reliability, platform ops), but the actual action is limited to 'browsing or choosing among' skills.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both 'what' (index of 37 advanced engineering skills, with enumerated domains) and 'when' via a concrete 'Use when browsing or choosing among the POWERFUL-tier engineering skills' trigger phrase.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

The 'Use when browsing or choosing among the POWERFUL-tier engineering skills' clause plus natural domain terms (RAG, MCP servers, CI/CD, observability) give good keyword coverage, though a few common synonyms are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'POWERFUL-tier advanced engineering' framing and named agent targets (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenClaw) carve a fairly distinct niche, with only minor overlap risk against other engineering skill collections.

4 / 5

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17

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20

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Validation

93%

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Validation15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
alirezarezvani/claude-skills
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