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checking-freshness

Quick data freshness check. Use when the user asks if data is up to date, when a table was last updated, if data is stale, or needs to verify data currency before using it.

90

Quality

87%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

Pending

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SecuritybySnyk

Passed

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Discovery

89%

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

This is a solid description with excellent trigger terms and a clear 'Use when...' clause that covers multiple natural phrasings. Its main weakness is that the 'what' portion is quite brief ('Quick data freshness check') and could benefit from listing specific concrete actions like querying update timestamps or comparing against freshness thresholds. Overall it would perform well in skill selection scenarios.

Suggestions

Expand the 'what' portion with more specific actions, e.g., 'Checks table update timestamps, compares against freshness thresholds, and reports data staleness duration.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (data freshness) and implies actions like checking if data is up to date or stale, but doesn't list specific concrete actions (e.g., 'queries metadata timestamps, compares against thresholds, reports staleness duration').

2 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both what ('Quick data freshness check') and when ('Use when the user asks if data is up to date, when a table was last updated, if data is stale, or needs to verify data currency before using it') with explicit trigger guidance.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes strong natural trigger terms users would actually say: 'up to date', 'last updated', 'stale', 'data currency', 'data freshness'. These cover common variations of how users phrase this need.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The focus on data freshness/staleness/currency is a clear niche that is unlikely to conflict with other skills. The trigger terms are specific to temporal data validation rather than general data processing.

3 / 3

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Implementation

85%

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

This is a well-structured, actionable skill that provides clear SQL queries, a defined freshness scale, and a logical escalation workflow. The content is mostly efficient though it could trim some of the column name enumeration and platform-specific sections. Strong workflow clarity with good progressive disclosure through the debugging-dags skill reference.

Suggestions

Trim the timestamp column name list to 2-3 examples with a note to check INFORMATION_SCHEMA, rather than listing 10+ patterns Claude can infer.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Generally efficient but includes some unnecessary detail like listing many common column name patterns Claude could infer, and the Astro/OSS Airflow sections add moderate bulk. The freshness status table and output format are useful but the overall content could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides executable SQL queries with clear placeholders, specific CLI commands (af dags list, af dags get), a concrete freshness status table with thresholds, and a copy-paste-ready output format template. The guidance is specific and directly usable.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Clear three-step sequence (find timestamp → query last update → check row counts) with a well-defined escalation path when data is stale (check Airflow → find DAG → diagnose). The workflow includes a feedback loop by referencing the debugging-dags skill for failed DAGs.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Well-structured with clear sections progressing from the check process to status interpretation to escalation. References the debugging-dags skill as a one-level-deep pointer for further investigation. Content is appropriately scoped for a single SKILL.md file without being monolithic.

3 / 3

Total

11

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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.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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