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deal-tracker

Track multiple live deals with milestones, deadlines, action items, and status updates. Maintains a deal pipeline view and surfaces upcoming deadlines and overdue items. Use when managing a book of business, tracking process milestones, or preparing for weekly deal reviews. Triggers on "deal tracker", "deal status", "where are we on", "process update", "deal pipeline", or "weekly deal review".

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

50%

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

The body is a well-structured, reasonably lean tracking template with specific taxonomies, but it stops short on actionability (no method for producing the Excel output) and workflow clarity (no explicit validation checkpoints). Its monolithic single-file structure over the simple-skill line keeps progressive disclosure mid-range.

Suggestions

Add a concrete method for generating the Excel output — e.g., an openpyxl script or a referenced template file — so the Output step is executable rather than just descriptive.

Insert explicit validation checkpoints in the workflow, such as 'before weekly review, confirm every active deal has an owner and flag any overdue milestones' as a verification step.

Condense the 18-row empty milestone table into a compact list, or move the large milestone and action-item templates into reference files, to reduce tokens and improve progressive disclosure.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient with no padding of concepts Claude already knows, but the 18-row empty milestone table and empty action-item table consume tokens that a compact list would convey, and a few notes are somewhat obvious. It is not a 3 because not every token earns its place — the large empty templates could be tightened; it is not a 1 because it avoids verbosity and concept explanation.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides concrete, ready-to-use templates and specific taxonomies (stage flow, status values, P0/P1/P2 priorities), but the Output section names an Excel workbook deliverable without any method or worked example for producing it. It is not a 3 because there is no executable example or generation guidance for the stated output; it is not a 1 because the guidance is concrete rather than vague.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear 5-step sequence (Setup, Milestone Tracking, Action Items, Weekly Review, Output) is present, but there are no explicit validation checkpoints — e.g., verifying every active deal has an owner or flagging overdue milestones before review. It is not a 1 because the steps are clearly sequenced; it is not a 3 because checkpoints and feedback loops are implicit at best.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Content is well-organized into clearly labeled sections and easy to navigate, but it is a single monolithic file (~85 lines, above the 50-line simple-skill threshold) with large template tables that could be split into reference files. It is not a 1 because it is not an unstructured wall of text; it is not a 3 because nothing is split out into one-level-deep references.

2 / 3

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12

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Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong: it names multiple concrete capabilities, includes natural trigger phrases a user would actually say, and explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it. It carves out a distinctive deal-tracking niche with low conflict risk.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Track multiple live deals with milestones, deadlines, action items, and status updates' and 'Maintains a deal pipeline view and surfaces upcoming deadlines and overdue items' — matching the anchor for several specific concrete actions. It is not a 2 because it goes beyond naming the domain to enumerate distinct tracked artifacts.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Track multiple live deals... Maintains a deal pipeline view...') and when ('Use when managing a book of business... Triggers on...'), matching the anchor for clearly answering both with explicit triggers. It is not a 2 because the 'Use when' clause and explicit trigger list are present, not merely implied.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Provides natural phrases a user would say — 'deal tracker', 'deal status', 'where are we on', 'deal pipeline', 'weekly deal review' — plus domain-natural 'book of business'. Good coverage with common variations; not a 2 because it includes far more than a single relevant keyword.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear M&A/deal-pipeline niche with distinct triggers ('where are we on', 'deal pipeline', 'weekly deal review') unlikely to fire for unrelated skills. Not a 2 because the domain and triggers are specific enough to avoid overlap with generic tracking skills.

3 / 3

Total

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12

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Validation

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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