ma-playbook

M&A strategy for acquiring companies or being acquired. Due diligence, valuation, integration, and deal structure. Use when evaluating acquisitions, preparing for acquisition, M&A due diligence, integration planning, or deal negotiation.

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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 tight, well-organized strategy playbook that uses tables and checklists for token efficiency, sequences workflows with explicit validation hand-offs, and cleanly offloads detail to real reference files. The only minor gap is that the qualitative nature of the skill limits copy-paste executability versus a code skill.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and table-driven, assumes Claude's intelligence (no 'what is M&A' preamble), and every section—including the necessary illustrative-range caveats—earns its tokens.	5 / 5
Actionability	Concrete checklists, red-flag tables, named verification scripts with full paths, and specific negotiation terms give mostly executable guidance; as a strategy skill it lacks copy-paste code, which is appropriate but keeps it just below fully executable.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Multi-step sequences (Quick Start arrows, numbered Preparation, numbered Verification Loop) include explicit checkpoints and feedback loops—"before any LOI or signature", "Any 🔴 finding goes to outside counsel before signing", "Loop the findings back into the negotiation-points table".	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references to real bundle files (integration-playbook.md, due-diligence-checklist.md) and cross-skill siblings, plus a Resources section enumerating them.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 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 well-crafted description that explicitly answers both what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete capability listings and natural trigger phrases. Minor room to add synonyms (mergers, LOI, term sheet) to push trigger coverage to comprehensive.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Due diligence, valuation, integration, and deal structure" lists multiple concrete, specific capabilities covering the full scope of the skill comprehensively.	5 / 5
Completeness	It states the 'what' (M&A strategy across due diligence, valuation, integration, deal structure) and the explicit 'when' ("Use when evaluating acquisitions, preparing for acquisition, M&A due diligence, integration planning, or deal negotiation").	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	"evaluating acquisitions, preparing for acquisition, M&A due diligence, integration planning, or deal negotiation" gives good natural trigger coverage, though synonyms like 'mergers', 'LOI', or 'term sheet' are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The M&A framing carves a clear niche with distinct triggers; only minor overlap risk exists with generic negotiation or valuation skills.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Path: c-level-advisor/skills/ma-playbook/SKILL.md
Commit: 19392f7

Reviewed: ~12 hours ago

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