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mom-test

Plan and evaluate customer conversations using The Mom Test — ask questions that even your mom can't lie to you about. Use when preparing for user interviews, evaluating research quality, or designing questions that extract real signal instead of polite lies.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

65%

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

A well-structured, actionable instruction skill whose prompt template gives concrete questions and audit structures. It loses points for verbosity, lack of validation checkpoints, and absence of progressive disclosure beyond a monolithic inline template.

Suggestions

Trim the motivational intro and redundant framing lines to tighten token efficiency.

Add an explicit verification checkpoint after each branch (e.g. 'Confirm: list the real-signal evidence vs. false-signal compliments you collected') to strengthen workflow clarity.

Consider splitting the long prompt template into a references file so SKILL.md stays an overview with a one-level-deep pointer.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is a mostly efficient prompt template with no padding about basic concepts, but the motivational intro ('Everyone says they'd use your product...') and repeated framing add length that could be trimmed without losing signal.

2 / 3

Actionability

Highly actionable for an instruction-only skill: concrete sample questions, a structured Question Audit table with verdict/problem/rewrite columns, named failure patterns, and explicit rewrite instructions for each bad question.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Three clearly separated input branches (idea, draft questions, transcripts) with a timed conversation-plan sequence, but there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops — the 'confirm what you learned' summary is implicit rather than an enforced checkpoint.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is well-sectioned but is a single ~140-line inline prompt template with no bundle files or one-level-deep references; the cross-skill mentions (craft-discovery-synthesis, jobs-to-be-done) are skill links, not bundled detail files.

2 / 3

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Description

90%

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 clearly states capabilities and explicit use-when triggers around a distinct named framework. Its only weakness is the second-person voice in the tagline, which the rubric penalizes.

Suggestions

Rewrite the tagline in third person to avoid the second-person voice penalty, e.g. 'Plans and evaluates customer conversations using The Mom Test — questions that cannot be answered with polite lies.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names multiple concrete actions ('Plan and evaluate customer conversations', 'preparing for user interviews', 'evaluating research quality', 'designing questions that extract real signal'), but the second-person framing 'ask questions that even your mom can't lie to you about' triggers the rubric's voice penalty, reducing it from a 3.

2 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Plan and evaluate customer conversations using The Mom Test') and when ('Use when preparing for user interviews, evaluating research quality, or designing questions...').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Good coverage of natural terms a user would say — 'user interviews', 'research quality', 'customer conversations', 'mom test' — with clear real-signal framing rather than jargon.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'The Mom Test' is a distinct named framework with specific triggers unlikely to collide with other skills; 'customer conversations' and 'user research' are somewhat broad but the named-method framing keeps the niche clear.

3 / 3

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11

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12

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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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Total

15

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16

Passed

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