irac-practice

Grade an IRAC essay for structure, issue-spotting, rule accuracy, analysis depth, and organization. Does NOT rewrite the essay or show a model answer; tracks patterns across sessions. Use when the user says "grade my IRAC", "check my essay", or "I wrote this, give me feedback".

Quality

88%

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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 thorough, highly actionable instruction skill with a clear sequenced workflow and strong validation discipline, weakened only by some repetition and a monolithic single-file structure that could benefit from splitting long inline material into references.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated no-rewrite/no-model-answer boundary into a single authoritative statement in 'What this skill does not do' and remove the duplication from the top summary and Purpose section to tighten conciseness.

Move the full output template (the fenced markdown block in Step 3) into a references file (e.g. references/feedback-template.md) and link to it from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure and reduce inline bulk.

Trim editorializing sentences like 'Pattern detection is the long-term value of this skill...' that do not change Claude's behavior, keeping only directive guidance.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient domain-specific guidance, but includes editorializing ('Pattern detection is the long-term value...') and repetition of the no-rewrite boundary across the summary, Purpose, and 'What this skill does not do' sections, so it could be tightened per the score-2 anchor.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides a full, copy-ready output template, explicit decision tests ('can you identify the word "because" or "here"'), named confidence tags ([UNCERTAIN], [VERIFY]), and concrete sibling-skill routing — the instruction-skill equivalent of fully executable, specific guidance per the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Clear Steps 1-4 sequence (Establish, Read closely, Structured feedback, Track patterns) with explicit validation checkpoints (confidence discipline, [VERIFY]/[UNCERTAIN] flags, real-matter guardrail) and a template-as-checklist, matching the score-3 anchor for clear sequencing with validation steps.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized with clear section headers, but it is a >50-line monolithic single file with no bundle references and inline content (the full output template, integration guidance) that could be split out, fitting the score-2 anchor where content that should be separate is inline.	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 that clearly states what the skill does, what it deliberately does not do, and gives explicit natural-language triggers for when to invoke it. Third-person voice is maintained throughout.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete grading actions ('structure, issue-spotting, rule accuracy, analysis depth, and organization') plus explicit non-actions ('Does NOT rewrite the essay or show a model answer') and 'tracks patterns across sessions', matching the score-3 anchor for multiple specific concrete actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Grade an IRAC essay for...') and when via an explicit 'Use when the user says...' clause, matching the score-3 anchor for clear what-and-when with explicit triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural user utterances — 'grade my IRAC', 'check my essay', 'I wrote this, give me feedback' — that a user would actually say, giving good coverage of natural trigger terms per the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (IRAC essay grading for law students) with distinct, essay-grading-specific triggers and an explicit no-rewrite/no-model-answer boundary that separates it from generic writing skills, matching the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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 — 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: law-student/skills/irac-practice/SKILL.md
Commit: 4a6c651

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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