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high-output-management

Apply Andy Grove's High Output Management principles to diagnose team productivity, design processes, and make management decisions. Use for team structure, meeting design, decision-making, performance management, and operational leverage.

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1.06x
Quality

55%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

95%

1.06x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Discovery

75%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a solid description that clearly identifies its niche through the Andy Grove/High Output Management framing and provides both what and when guidance. Its main weakness is that the listed capabilities remain somewhat abstract rather than naming concrete deliverables or actions, and the trigger terms could be expanded to cover more natural user language variations.

Suggestions

Add more concrete actions like 'create 1:1 meeting agendas', 'calculate managerial leverage', 'design production metrics dashboards' to increase specificity.

Expand trigger terms to include natural variations users might say: '1:1s', 'OKRs', 'delegation', 'org design', 'management book', 'Grove', 'Intel management style'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (management/team productivity) and lists several action areas (diagnose team productivity, design processes, make management decisions), but these are somewhat high-level rather than concrete specific actions like 'create 1:1 meeting agendas' or 'calculate managerial leverage ratios'.

2 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (apply High Output Management principles to diagnose productivity, design processes, make decisions) and 'when' ('Use for team structure, meeting design, decision-making, performance management, and operational leverage'), with explicit trigger guidance via the 'Use for' clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes relevant terms like 'team structure', 'meeting design', 'decision-making', 'performance management', and 'operational leverage', but misses common natural language variations users might say such as '1:1s', 'OKRs', 'delegation', 'org design', 'management framework', or 'Andy Grove'.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The specific reference to 'Andy Grove's High Output Management' creates a clear niche that distinguishes this from generic management or productivity skills. The combination of the named framework with specific management domains makes it unlikely to conflict with other skills.

3 / 3

Total

10

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12

Passed

Implementation

35%

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

This skill is a well-structured but overly verbose rendering of Andy Grove's management framework. Its main weakness is token inefficiency — it explains concepts Claude already understands deeply (leverage, bottlenecks, meeting types) rather than focusing on novel application patterns or decision trees. The content would benefit significantly from aggressive condensation and splitting detailed reference material into bundle files.

Suggestions

Reduce the prompt template by 60-70% — remove explanations of concepts Claude already knows (what leverage is, what 1:1s are, what bottlenecks mean) and focus only on the specific diagnostic steps and output format.

Move the detailed frameworks (meeting taxonomy, task-relevant maturity table, production principles) into the referenced framework.md file and keep SKILL.md as a concise overview with the prompt template focused on the analysis workflow.

Add a validation/feedback loop: after the initial diagnosis, include a step where the user confirms the leverage gap assessment before proceeding to recommendations, preventing misdiagnosis from propagating.

Provide a concrete example: show a sample input situation and the expected structured output, so Claude has a clear model of what good analysis looks like for this skill.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is extremely verbose at ~150+ lines, explaining management concepts that Claude already knows well (what leverage means, what 1:1s are, what meetings are for). Most of the content is restating Andy Grove's framework rather than providing novel, actionable instructions. The entire prompt template could be condensed to a fraction of its size.

1 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides structured frameworks and specific recommendations (e.g., the task-relevant maturity table, meeting taxonomy, decision types), but it's fundamentally a conceptual/advisory skill with no executable code or concrete commands. The recommendations section gives good examples of specificity ('Switch the Monday all-hands...'), but much of the guidance remains at the level of questions to ask rather than concrete actions to take.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The six numbered sections provide a clear sequence for analysis, and the recommendations section gives a structured output format. However, there are no validation checkpoints or feedback loops — no way to verify whether the diagnosis is correct before proceeding to recommendations, and no iterative refinement process for the management changes suggested.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

There is a reference to [framework.md](references/framework.md) for detailed principles, which is good progressive disclosure. However, no bundle files were provided, so we can't verify this reference exists. The main content itself is monolithic — the massive prompt template could benefit from splitting detailed frameworks (meeting taxonomy, TRM table, production principles) into separate reference files, keeping SKILL.md as a concise overview.

2 / 3

Total

7

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12

Passed

Validation

90%

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

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

10

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11

Passed

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