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standup

Generate a standup update from recent activity. Use when preparing for daily standup, summarizing yesterday's commits and PRs and ticket moves, formatting work into yesterday/today/blockers, or structuring a few rough notes into a shareable update.

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Quality

Content

67%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A well-structured, mostly actionable single-purpose skill: concrete output template, clear conditional connector handling, and tight instructional sections. It is held back by token-padding (ASCII diagram, lifestyle tips) and small execution gaps — an undefined time window for 'recent' activity, no filled output example, a dangling CONNECTORS.md reference, and a formatting glitch on connector names.

Suggestions

Trim the ASCII 'STANDUP' box to a two-line standalone-vs-connected comparison and drop non-operational tips like 'Run it every morning — Build a habit', keeping only executable guidance such as the Slack/email format tip.

Make the reporting window explicit (e.g., 'pull commits, PRs, and ticket moves from the last business day') and include a one-line filled example of the output template so the generated result is unambiguous.

Fix the dangling ../../CONNECTORS.md reference (target does not exist in the bundle as presented) and the '**~~source control**' strikethrough formatting glitch on the connector names.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The instructional core (output template, connector actions, input options) is lean, but the 15-line ASCII 'STANDALONE / SUPERCHARGED' box, the marketing framing, and habit advice like 'Run it every morning — Build a habit' add tokens with no operational value; roughly a third of the body could be cut without losing guidance.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete guidance throughout: an exact markdown output skeleton, specific connector actions ('Pull recent commits and PRs (opened, reviewed, merged)', 'Pull tickets moved to "in progress" or "done"'), and a worked input example in Option B. Minor gaps: 'recent' has no time window, no filled example of the output, and the '**~~source control**' strikethrough formatting glitch muddies the connector names.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The flow is clear for this single-purpose, read-only skill: two input modes (Option A/B) → conditional per-connector gathering ('If X is connected') → output template; no validation checkpoints are needed since nothing is destructive or batch. Not 5 because the reporting window for 'recent commits and PRs' is left implicit and the section order places Output before the data-gathering instructions, making the sequence slightly implicit.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A short (~70 line), well-sectioned single-file body with one clearly signaled, one-level-deep reference at the top ('see [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)'). Not 5 because that referenced path does not resolve within the presented bundle (no such file exists), a minor organization gap rather than a structural one.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Description

83%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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: third-person voice, a clear what, and an explicit 'Use when' clause with multiple natural trigger phrases covering both the tool-assisted and rough-notes use cases. The only weaknesses are minor — a few missing synonyms (scrum, status update) and no mention of the tool sources or output-format variants the skill actually supports.

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Specificity

Several concrete actions are named: 'Generate a standup update from recent activity', 'summarizing yesterday's commits and PRs and ticket moves', 'formatting work into yesterday/today/blockers', 'structuring a few rough notes into a shareable update'. Not 5 because coverage has minor gaps — the data sources (connected tools) and alternate output formats (Slack, email) that the body supports are absent; well above anchor 3's '1-2 concrete actions'.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both parts: the what ('Generate a standup update from recent activity') and the when with multiple concrete trigger phrases ('Use when preparing for daily standup, summarizing yesterday's commits and PRs and ticket moves, formatting work into yesterday/today/blockers, or structuring a few rough notes into a shareable update'). This mirrors the anchor-5 example pattern exactly.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage: 'daily standup', 'standup update', 'yesterday's commits and PRs', 'ticket moves', 'blockers', 'shareable update' — phrases a user would genuinely say. Not 5 because common synonyms like 'scrum', 'stand-up', 'daily sync', or 'status update' are missing; not 3 since coverage goes well beyond 'some relevant keywords'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche (standup updates) with distinct triggers like the yesterday/today/blockers format. Not 5 because 'summarizing yesterday's commits and PRs' creates minor overlap risk with general commit-summarization or git-report skills; far more distinct than anchor 3's generic domain phrasing.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

87%

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

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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relative_links

Relative link issues: 1 suspicious

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Path

engineering/skills/standup/SKILL.md

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