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lbo-model

This skill should be used when completing LBO (Leveraged Buyout) model templates in Excel for private equity transactions, deal materials, or investment committee presentations. The skill fills in formulas, validates calculations, and ensures professional formatting standards that adapt to any template structure.

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Quality

Content

77%

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

The body is highly actionable with a strong validated, checkpointed workflow, but it is a monolithic ~270-line document with notable redundancy across the problem-areas, errors, and checklist sections and no bundled reference files split out.

Suggestions

Consolidate the overlapping COMMON PROBLEM AREAS, COMMON ERRORS TO AVOID table, and verification checklist into a single canonical section to remove redundant treatment of the same pitfalls.

Move the detailed VERIFICATION CHECKLIST and the Fill/Number-format/color-standards reference material into separate bundled reference files (e.g., references/verification.md, references/formatting.md) and link to them one level deep from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure.

Tighten the section-by-section checkpoints, which largely restate the 'verify at each step' core principle already established earlier.

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Conciseness

The ~270-line body is mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence (no basic-concept padding), but the COMMON PROBLEM AREAS, COMMON ERRORS TO AVOID table, and section-by-section checkpoints substantially overlap the core principles, so it could be tightened rather than earning the every-token-earns-its-place (3) anchor.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready specifics — hex color codes (0000FF, #1F4E79, #BDD7EE), number formats ($#,##0;($#,##0);"-", 0.0"x"), formula patterns (=B5*B6, =-MAX(0,B4)), Office JS API calls with the merged-cell pitfall, and the recalc.py command — matching the executable/complete anchor.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Clear sequence (template check → analysis → fill → verify) with explicit validation (`python recalc.py model.xlsx` must return zero errors), per-section STOP-and-verify gates, and a fix-before-continuing feedback loop, satisfying the validation-checkpoints-and-feedback-loops anchor rather than the gaps (2) anchor.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and the SKILL.md is a well-sectioned but monolithic ~270-line file; detailed material (verification checklist, common-problems/errors tables, color/format standards) that could be split into one-level-deep reference files is inlined, matching the content-that-should-be-separate-is-inline (2) anchor rather than the well-signaled-reference (3) anchor.

2 / 3

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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 third-person, names concrete actions, includes an explicit "should be used when" trigger with strong natural keywords, and targets a distinct niche. It cleanly answers both what the skill does and when to use it.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"The skill fills in formulas, validates calculations, and ensures professional formatting standards" lists three distinct concrete actions, matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor rather than the single-action (2) or vague (1) anchors.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly states both what ("fills in formulas, validates calculations, and ensures professional formatting") and when via an explicit trigger clause ("This skill should be used when completing LBO... model templates"), so it is not capped at 2 and clearly answers both.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural terms users would say — "LBO (Leveraged Buyout)", "Excel", "private equity transactions", "deal materials", "investment committee presentations" — with both acronym and full-form variants, matching the good-coverage anchor rather than the missing-variation (2) anchor.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"LBO (Leveraged Buyout) model templates in Excel for private equity transactions" carves a clear, narrow niche with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the clear-niche anchor rather than the could-overlap (2) anchor.

3 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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