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matter-briefing

Deep briefing on one matter — current posture, what's changed, next deadline, open questions, and a risk re-assessment check, ready before a GC update or outside counsel call. Use when the user says "brief me on [matter]", "where are we on [matter]", or needs a read on a specific matter.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

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 well-structured, highly actionable instruction skill with clear sequencing and explicit validation gates. Its only real weakness is redundancy between the quick-start step list and the elaborated sections that follow.

Suggestions

Collapse the duplication between the opening numbered list and the detailed body: steps 3 and 5 restate the 'Load context' and 'Staleness' sections — keep one canonical location and cross-reference from the other.

If the 5-step list is meant as a quick reference, label it as such so the reader knows the sections below elaborate rather than repeat it.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient and does not over-explain concepts Claude knows, but the opening 5-step list duplicates the detailed sections — step 3 restates 'Load context' and step 5 restates 'Staleness' — so it could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

As an instruction-only skill it gives copy-paste-ready guidance: an exact conflicts-gate refusal quote, a fully labeled briefing template, a concrete >30-day staleness threshold, and named decision-tree branches.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The sequence is clear (load CLAUDE.md, read the matter files, produce the briefing, flag staleness) with explicit checkpoints — a conflicts gate that refuses and routes, a staleness flag, and a risk re-assessment check.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist, but the single-purpose body is well-organized into clearly labeled sections, and its references to matter files are one level deep and explicitly signaled, with no nested reference chains.

3 / 3

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12

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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 names concrete deliverables, gives natural-language triggers, and answers both 'what' and 'when' in third person. It is well-distinguished from sibling matter-management skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists several concrete briefing components — 'current posture, what's changed, next deadline, open questions, and a risk re-assessment check' — rather than vague language, matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (a deep matter briefing with named sections, ready before a GC update or outside counsel call) and when (an explicit 'Use when the user says...' clause), satisfying the highest completeness anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Provides natural user phrasings a person would actually say — 'brief me on [matter]', 'where are we on [matter]', 'needs a read on a specific matter' — giving good coverage of likely triggers.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear legal single-matter niche tied to GC updates and outside counsel calls, with triggers unlikely to collide with generic skills or with the intake/update skills it references.

3 / 3

Total

12

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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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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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Total

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16

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Repository
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