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bugbash

Systematically explore and test any software project (CLI, API, Backend, Library, etc.) to find bugs, usability issues, and edge cases. Produces a structured report with full reproduction evidence (exact commands, inputs, logs, and tracebacks) for every issue.

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

78%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.

The body is a lean, actionable bug-hunting playbook with a well-sequenced workflow and explicit validation/reproducibility checkpoints. Main room for improvement is tightening a few restated guidance bullets and making the build/start and error-recovery steps as explicit as the documentation loop.

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Conciseness

Efficient, procedural prose that assumes Claude's competence and avoids explaining basic concepts; a few Guidance bullets restate earlier points and could be trimmed, keeping it just below a 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable elements (mkdir commands, curl invocations, echo $? / -w "%{http_code}", severity tiers, evidence file paths) with only minor gaps in fully copy-paste-ready examples for each target type.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 5-step sequence with real validation checkpoints ('Verify reproducibility — retry before documenting', 'Re-read the report and update summary counts so they match') and an incremental-write safety loop; falls short of 5 because build/start and error-recovery steps are left loose rather than explicit fix-retry cycles.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A well-organized single-file skill (~100 lines) with clean Setup/Workflow/Guidance sections and no external bundle files, satisfying the simple-skill exception for progressive disclosure.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

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Description

66%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.

The description clearly and concretely states what the skill does and the kind of evidence it produces, with strong specificity and low conflict risk. Its main weakness is the absence of an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause that tells Claude when to invoke it.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when you need to stress-test or bug-hunt a CLI, API, backend, or library and produce a reproducible issue report.'

Include a few more natural synonyms a user might actually say ('bug hunt', 'stress test', 'QA', 'dogfood') to broaden trigger coverage.

Optionally mention the output deliverable (e.g. 'report.md with severity-ranked repros') to sharpen the 'what'.

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Specificity

Names the domain and lists multiple concrete actions ('explore and test', 'find bugs, usability issues, and edge cases', 'Produces a structured report with full reproduction evidence (exact commands, inputs, logs, and tracebacks)') with only minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Has a clear and detailed 'what' but no explicit 'Use when...' trigger guidance, so per the missing-trigger-clause rule completeness is capped at 3 even though the what is strong.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage ('bugs', 'edge cases', 'test', 'explore') plus enumerated targets (CLI, API, Backend, Library); a few natural synonyms users might say are missing, and there is no explicit trigger phrase.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped to non-web software exploration/testing across CLI/API/Backend/Library with concrete output artifacts, a fairly distinct niche with only minor overlap risk against general testing skills.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

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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