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buyer-list

Build and organize a universe of potential acquirers for sell-side M&A processes. Identifies strategic and financial buyers, assesses fit, and prioritizes outreach. Use when preparing for a sell-side mandate, building a buyer universe, or evaluating potential partners. Triggers on "buyer list", "buyer universe", "potential acquirers", "who would buy this", "strategic buyers", or "financial sponsors".

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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, actionable instruction-only skill with a clear sequenced workflow and concrete templates and output spec. It assumes domain competence and avoids padding, with only minor opportunities to tighten phrasing and add explicit verification checkpoints.

Suggestions

Add an explicit verification step in Step 4/5 (e.g., 'Review Tier 1 list with the seller before outreach begins') to create a clear validate-before-proceed checkpoint.

Tighten the repeated 'Rationale:' lines or fold them into the bullet above to improve token efficiency.

Replace vague placeholders like 'Best approach channel' with concrete options (e.g., 'existing relationship / warm intro / cold email') to raise actionability.

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Conciseness

Mostly lean bullet-pointed content that assumes M&A competence without explaining basics; minor trimming possible in the repeated 'Rationale:' lines, keeping it just below a 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, specific guidance — buyer categories with explicit criteria, table templates with named columns, tier counts (5-10/10-15/10-20), and a defined Excel output spec — with only minor vague spots like 'Best approach channel'.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear six-step sequence with implicit checkpoints ('Always ask the seller if there are buyers they want included or excluded', 'move buyers between tiers based on feedback'); no explicit validate-then-proceed loop, but the task is non-destructive so the batch/destructive cap does not apply.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clearly headed sections (Workflow steps, Important Notes) with no bundle files needed; slightly over the simple-skill line count so not a 5, but structure is clean and navigable.

4 / 5

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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, well-formed description: it states concrete capabilities, an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause, and a rich set of natural trigger phrases within a distinct sell-side M&A niche.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Build and organize a universe of potential acquirers', 'Identifies strategic and financial buyers, assesses fit, and prioritizes outreach' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (build/organize buyer universe, identify buyers, assess fit, prioritize outreach) and 'when' ('Use when preparing for a sell-side mandate, building a buyer universe, or evaluating potential partners') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Explicit 'Triggers on' clause lists natural phrases users would say — 'buyer list', 'buyer universe', 'potential acquirers', 'who would buy this', 'strategic buyers', 'financial sponsors' — with broad synonym coverage.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (sell-side M&A buyer lists) with domain-specific triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, minimizing conflict risk.

5 / 5

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Validation

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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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

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