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building-trust-before-sensitive-advice

Use when you need to deliver sensitive political counsel to a new or distrustful leader. Builds trust gradually through demonstrated competence, acknowledged risk, and escalating from safe topics to dangerous internal politics.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

85%

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

A concise, well-structured instruction-only skill with a clear sequence and genuine validation gates before its riskiest step. Its only real weakness is actionability: several directives rely on relative, undefined terms rather than concrete examples.

Suggestions

Illustrate the relative terms with brief concrete examples, e.g., what a 'smaller matter' or 'safer/external' topic looks like versus 'internal politics or royal family matters'.

Add one more concrete historical or scenario example beyond Jiang Ziya and King Wen to ground the 'reference historical parallels' step.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean (~30 lines) and assumes Claude's intelligence, with no padded explanations of what trust or political counsel are; every section earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

Steps give clear behavioral directives, but key terms like 'smaller matters', 'safer topics', and 'more sensitive topics' are left unspecified, and only one concrete example is offered ('Jiang Ziya and King Wen'), leaving actionable detail incomplete relative to the score-3 anchor.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

An 8-step numbered sequence is paired with a Verification section whose gates ('Confirm that value has been demonstrated...before attempting sensitive topics', 'Validate that the leader has explicitly invited counsel...before escalating') act as explicit validation checkpoints before the dangerous escalation.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Under 50 lines, single-purpose, with no need for external references; the well-organized sections (Steps, Key Principle, Warning, Expected Outcomes, Verification) satisfy the simple-skill allowance for a top score.

3 / 3

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Description

75%

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 cleanly states both what it does and when to use it, with an explicit 'Use when' trigger and a distinctive niche. It is held back from the top specificity/trigger scores because its actions are framed as abstract strategies rather than concrete operations and its natural-user keyword coverage is thin.

Suggestions

Add one or two concrete, observable actions (e.g., 'open with a small piece of useful analysis before raising internal politics') to lift specificity toward the score-3 anchor.

Broaden trigger terms with phrasings a user would naturally say (e.g., 'giving risky advice', 'winning a skeptical leader's trust') alongside the existing 'Use when' clause.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the niche ('sensitive political counsel to a new or distrustful leader') and three mechanisms ('demonstrated competence, acknowledged risk, and escalating from safe topics to dangerous internal politics'), but these are abstract strategies rather than the multiple concrete actions of the score-3 anchor.

2 / 3

Completeness

The 'Use when...' clause answers when explicitly, and 'Builds trust gradually through demonstrated competence, acknowledged risk, and escalating...' answers what, satisfying both halves.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Has an explicit 'Use when you need to deliver sensitive political counsel to a new or distrustful leader' trigger with relevant terms, but the set of natural phrases a user would actually say is narrow for this specialized domain, so coverage is incomplete.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The trigger ('sensitive political counsel to a new or distrustful leader') carves a clear, narrow niche that is unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

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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