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Use when applying ancient Chinese trading principles (白圭/计然 method). Covers counter-cyclical buying (旱则资舟水则资车), price cycle recognition, inventory rules for perishables, and the four merchant virtues (智勇仁彊).

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Quality

Content

61%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 content is well-structured and reasonably concise as a reference of principles, but it reads more as a knowledge catalog than an actionable playbook, lacking a clear decision workflow and executable steps. Verification checks are present but not embedded in a sequenced process.

Suggestions

Add a short decision workflow (e.g., assess current cycle -> check price vs 30-80 range -> apply counter-cyclical action -> verify against inventory rules) so guidance is executable rather than purely aphoristic.

Consolidate the overlapping Price Management (section 3) and Price Cycle Recognition (section 5) to remove redundancy and tighten the token budget.

Tie the Verification checks explicitly to the workflow steps as validation checkpoints rather than leaving them as a standalone closing list.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean bullet points with concrete data (grain 30-80, 6/6/12-year cycle pattern), with only minor redundancy such as the Overview restating the description and English glosses duplicating the Chinese aphorisms.

4 / 5

Actionability

It provides some concrete guidance (the 30-80 price range, cycle patterns, the 'buy when others sell' rule) but largely presents principles and aphorisms rather than a clear executable decision procedure, leaving key application steps incomplete.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Content is organized as numbered principles rather than a sequenced workflow; the closing Verification section offers a few checks but there is no explicit multi-step process with validation checkpoints, so sequence is present only implicitly.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-organized into clearly headed sections (Overview, Core Principles, Required Qualities, Expected Outcomes, Verification) with no nested references and no bundle files needed; it sits just over the 50-line simple-skill threshold, so minor organization gaps keep it below 5.

4 / 5

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Description

80%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 explicitly states both what the skill covers and when to use it, with a distinct niche and concrete capability list. Its main weakness is trigger-term naturalness, as the vocabulary is domain-specialized rather than everyday phrasing.

Suggestions

Add more natural-language synonyms a general user might say (e.g., 'market timing', 'when to buy and sell', 'inventory strategy') alongside the specialized terms.

Consider adding a plain-language summary of the core action (e.g., 'decides when to buy and sell based on price cycles') before listing the principle areas.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists several concrete capability areas ('counter-cyclical buying', 'price cycle recognition', 'inventory rules for perishables', 'the four merchant virtues'), which is multiple specific actions with only minor gaps in coverage.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers 'when' with a concrete 'Use when applying ancient Chinese trading principles' clause and 'what' with four enumerated coverage areas, matching the anchor for clear and explicit what-and-when with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Relevant keywords like 'ancient Chinese trading principles', 'price cycle recognition', and 'inventory rules' are present, but the terms are fairly specialized and miss common variations or synonyms a general user might say.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche 'ancient Chinese trading principles (白圭/计然 method)' is highly specific with distinct triggers, making conflict with other skills minimal.

5 / 5

Total

17

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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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