matter-workspace

Manage matter workspaces — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter. Use in multi-client private practice to keep one client's context separate from another, or when a substantive skill needs to know which matter it's working in.

Quality

81%

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Quality

Content

77%Weight 40%Scale 1-3

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

An actionable, well-sequenced skill body with concrete templates and validation checkpoints, weakened mainly by token redundancy (repeated base paths and duplicated subcommand descriptions) and a monolithic single-file structure that forgoes progressive disclosure for a non-trivial multi-subcommand skill.

Suggestions

Define the base path once (e.g. `$MATTERS = ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ip-legal/matters/`) and reference it thereafter, eliminating ~15 full-path repetitions and trimming significant tokens.

Consolidate the subcommand summary and the detailed Subcommand logic into one section to remove the duplication between lines 17-21 and 70-112.

Move the matter.md template and the intake interview into a references/ file (e.g. references/matter-template.md) and link to it from the body, giving this multi-faceted skill genuine one-level-deep progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly specific operational detail rather than conceptual padding, but carries real redundancy: the full path ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ip-legal/ is repeated ~15 times, the subcommand summary (lines 17-21) restates the detailed Subcommand logic (lines 70-112), and the "default state is off" explanation appears in both the Instructions and Notes sections.	2 / 3
Actionability	Highly concrete instruction-only guidance: exact file paths, exact folder-move operations, an exact markdown table schema, and complete matter.md/history.md templates with literal strings to write — copy-paste ready despite the absence of code.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Each subcommand is a clearly numbered sequence with explicit verification checkpoints ("Confirm slug is not already present", "Confirm matters/<slug>/matter.md exists", "Show the user what changed and confirm before writing"), and the close operation verifies existence before the reversible archive move.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized with clear section headers, but it is a single ~184-line monolithic file with no bundle files (references/scripts/assets absent); content that could be split out — the matter.md template, the intake interview, the storage layout — is all inline rather than in one-level-deep reference files.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

85%Weight 40%Scale 1-3

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: concrete multi-action verb list, an explicit use-trigger clause, and a distinct niche. The only weakness is trigger-term breadth, relying on practice-specific jargon rather than everyday synonyms a user might naturally say.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — "create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter" — directly matching the score-3 anchor of enumerating several specific operations.	3 / 3
Completeness	Answers both what ("Manage matter workspaces — create, list, switch, close, or detach") and when via an explicit "Use in multi-client private practice... or when a substantive skill needs to know which matter it's working in" trigger clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Contains relevant domain keywords ("matter workspaces", "active matter", "client's context") but leans on jargon ("multi-client private practice") and omits common variations a user might say ("case", "engagement", "client file").	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	A clear niche (legal matter isolation) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills; "manage matter workspaces" is specific to this plugin's function.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 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: ip-legal/skills/matter-workspace/SKILL.md
Commit: 4a6c651

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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