deadlines

Track case deadlines — add, cross-case rollup report, update, complete, close. Warns at configurable thresholds (default 14/7/3/1 days); overdue items stay flagged until resolved. The operational record for a clinic workload. Use when a student or supervisor needs to add a deadline, ask what's due this week, get a deadline report, or update a case deadline.

Quality

88%

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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, highly actionable workflow skill with clear flag routing, validation checkpoints, and a complete report template. Its main weaknesses are verbosity in the jurisdiction/hard-stop prose and a progressive-disclosure reference (the plausibility bands) that is named but not shipped in the bundle.

Suggestions

Tighten the jurisdiction-assumption paragraph and the cold-start hard-stop quote; move the build-a-band-file recipe into references/plausibility-bands/TEMPLATE.md and link to it rather than inlining the full message.

Ship at least the IL.md placeholder band file the body claims to provide so the references/plausibility-bands/{state}.md path is real and one-level-deep navigation can be verified.

Trim the 'What this skill does not do' bullets to the distinctiveness-essential items; the file/serve and auto-notify notes partly repeat the Purpose section.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the multi-paragraph jurisdiction warning and the verbose hard-stop supervisor quote in the --add section could be tightened; some tokens do not earn their place for an operational skill.	2 / 3
Actionability	Concrete, executable guidance throughout — the full markdown report template with table headers, the id-slug scheme '[case]-[short-desc]-[YYYY-MM]', the six-step sanity-check logic, and the hardcoded ledger path give copy-paste-ready direction.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Flag routing is clearly sequenced, the --add flow has explicit validation checkpoints (pre-add duplicate check, plausibility band comparison, hard-stop if the band file is missing), and the skill requires 'Confirm any write before committing' as a checkpoint.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	It points to one-level-deep jurisdiction band files (references/plausibility-bands/{state}.md) but those reference files are not present in the bundle, so the referenced structure cannot be verified and the inline hard-stop message duplicates guidance that a reference would carry.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 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, third-person description that names concrete actions, supplies natural trigger phrasing, and explicitly pairs what-it-does with when-to-use-it guidance. It is concise yet complete and clearly occupies a distinct operational niche.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'add, cross-case rollup report, update, complete, close' and 'Warns at configurable thresholds (default 14/7/3/1 days)' — directly matching the 'multiple specific concrete actions' anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Answers both what ('Track case deadlines — add, cross-case rollup report, update, complete, close') and when ('Use when a student or supervisor needs to add a deadline, ask what's due this week...') with an explicit 'Use when' clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural phrasing a user would say — 'add a deadline, ask what's due this week, get a deadline report, or update a case deadline' — gives good coverage of real trigger phrases.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The 'case deadlines' niche with clinic-specific triggers ('student or supervisor', 'cross-case rollup') is clearly distinct and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 7 missing, 3 deeper-than-1-level	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: anthropics/claude-for-legal
Path: legal-clinic/skills/deadlines/SKILL.md
Commit: 4a6c651

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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