deposition-prep

Build a deposition outline for a witness — pull their documents from the eDiscovery platform, organize topics around the case theory, and surface impeachment material. Use when the user says "depo prep for [witness]", "build a depo outline", or "prepare for [name]'s deposition".

Quality

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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 legal skill with strong validation gates and a complete template, though it is prose-heavy and longer than necessary. Splitting the outline template and jurisdiction rules into reference files would improve progressive disclosure and conciseness.

Suggestions

Move the full Step 4 outline template and the PD 57AC / jurisdiction rules into a separate references/ file, leaving a concise pointer in SKILL.md to cut length and improve progressive disclosure.

Tighten prose that restates the same idea — e.g. the 'outline is a map' framing appears in both the /deposition-prep summary and the Purpose section; state it once.

Consider trimming the Witness statements / PD 57AC preamble to the operative rules and refusal stance, since the explanatory framing around 'what PD 57AC was designed to prevent' adds tokens without changing the required behavior.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Most content earns its place as domain guardrails Claude lacks (PD 57AC, source attribution, marker discipline), but the ~200-line body restates the 'outline is a map' framing twice and carries prose-heavy explanations that could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides a complete copy-paste outline template, exact marker syntax ([VERIFY], [UNCERTAIN], [CITE NEEDED]), a literal refusal message for the conflicts gate, and concrete per-step actions — guidance is specific and executable for an instruction-only skill.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Clearly sequenced Steps 1→1a→2→3→4 with multiple explicit validation checkpoints: the unbypassable conflicts gate, the 'no silent supplement' stop-and-report rule, marker discipline, and cite-check feedback loops.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into labeled sections, but at ~200 lines it is a somewhat monolithic wall of text with the full outline template and PD 57AC rules inline rather than split into reference files; no bundle files exist to offload detail.	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, specific description in third-person voice that covers concrete actions, natural trigger terms, and both the what and when. It is clearly scoped to deposition preparation and unlikely to conflict with other skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Build a deposition outline', 'pull their documents from the eDiscovery platform', 'organize topics around the case theory', and 'surface impeachment material' — rather than vague language.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both what (build outline, pull docs, organize topics, surface impeachment) and when, with an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	The explicit 'Use when the user says "depo prep for [witness]", "build a depo outline", or "prepare for [name]'s deposition"' gives good coverage of natural phrasings a user would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	A clear deposition-prep niche tied to a legal plugin with distinct, specific triggers that are unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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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 — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: anthropics/claude-for-legal
Path: litigation-legal/skills/deposition-prep/SKILL.md
Commit: 4a6c651

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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