earnings-preview-single

Generate a concise 4-5 page equity research earnings preview for a single company. Analyzes the most recent earnings transcript, competitor landscape, valuation, and recent news to produce a professional HTML report.

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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.

The skill is highly actionable with an excellent, well-validated workflow, but it is verbose through repetition rather than explanation, and it leans on a report-template.md reference that does not exist in the bundle, weakening its progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Provide the missing report-template.md (or remove the reference and inline only the essential template/CSS/helper stubs) so the signaled reference resolves to a real file.

De-duplicate the intermediate-file read-back: state the 11-file 'cat' list once and reference it from Phase 7 instead of repeating it verbatim, and consolidate the repeated 'files are the single source of truth' rule.

Trim ALL-CAPS emphasis ('MANDATORY', 'ZERO EXCEPTIONS', 'DO NOT SKIP') where the surrounding imperative already conveys the requirement, to reduce padding without losing clarity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly actionable and does not explain basics Claude already knows, but it is padded through heavy ALL-CAPS repetition and duplicated instructions — the 11-file 'cat' list is spelled out twice (Phase 6 and Phase 7) and the read-back rule is restated several times.	3 / 5
Actionability	Fully executable guidance: exact MCP function calls with parameters, concrete CSV file formats with example rows, fixed file paths, named Chart.js helper signatures, and a complete report structure — copy-paste ready.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear 8-phase sequence with explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops: Phase 6 verifies calculations and re-sums components, Phase 7 enforces a blocking read-back of all intermediate files before report generation, and a final completeness check is specified.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Phased structure exists and one reference is well-signaled ('See [report-template.md]'), but the referenced report-template.md file is absent from the bundle, and template/CSS/Chart.js content that belongs in a separate file is referenced to a missing path rather than appropriately split.	3 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 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.

The description is specific and clearly distinct, naming concrete analytical actions and a concrete HTML deliverable. Its main weakness is the missing explicit 'Use when...' trigger guidance, which caps completeness.

Suggestions

Add a 'Use when...' clause naming the natural trigger phrases (e.g., 'Use when the user asks for an earnings preview, pre-earnings equity research note, or single-company earnings analysis').

Round out trigger terms with synonyms an analyst might say — 'pre-earnings note', 'earnings preview report', 'sell-side note' — to lift trigger-term coverage to 5.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and several concrete actions — 'Analyzes the most recent earnings transcript, competitor landscape, valuation, and recent news to produce a professional HTML report' — with only minor coverage gaps.	4 / 5
Completeness	Has a clear 'what' (generate a 4-5 page HTML earnings preview) but no 'Use when...' trigger clause, which per the guidelines caps completeness at 3.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural analyst-facing terms ('earnings preview', 'earnings transcript', 'competitor landscape', 'valuation', 'equity research') but is missing common synonyms or file extensions that would round out coverage.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The single-company equity-research earnings-preview niche with an HTML report output is a clear, distinct trigger set with minimal overlap risk against other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

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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.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (525 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning
relative_links	Relative link issues: 2 missing	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: anthropics/financial-services
Path: plugins/partner-built/spglobal/skills/earnings-preview-beta/SKILL.md
Commit: 69cbc81

Reviewed: 14 days ago

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