conduct-state-sacrifices

Use when performing state sacrificial rituals (畤) to establish religious legitimacy or mark significant occasions. Guides altar preparation, sacrificial animal selection (三牢), ritual conduct, and event documentation. Based on Qin's sacrificial traditions.

Quality

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Content

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

The content is a well-organized, concise procedural skill with concrete guidance and a validation section. Its main limitation is that validation appears as a trailing section rather than inline per-step checkpoints, leaving workflow clarity just short of excellent.

Suggestions

Inline validation checkpoints within the Steps (e.g., after 'Prepare Sacrificial Animals', verify the count meets 三牢 before proceeding) to strengthen the feedback loop.

Remove or condense the Overview line, which restates the frontmatter description, to improve token efficiency.

Tighten the Examples to a single canonical case with the key parameters (altar, animals, deities) rather than three similar historical entries.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and well-sectioned with no padding of concepts Claude already knows, though the Overview line slightly restates the frontmatter description; this fits the level-4 'efficient; minor instances that could be trimmed' anchor rather than the fully lean level-5.	4 / 5
Actionability	As an instruction-only skill it provides concrete, specific guidance — 'Standard offering: three of each kind (三牢)', named deities (上帝, White Emperor), and concrete historical examples — with only minor gaps, matching the level-4 anchor; absence of code is not penalized for an instruction skill.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Five steps are clearly sequenced and a dedicated Validation section provides verification checkpoints (verify occasion, confirm animal standard, check documentation), but validation is a trailing section rather than inline per-step feedback loops, fitting level-4 above the checkpoint-absent level-3.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	At under 50 lines, single-purpose, and with no need for external references, the body is well-organized into clear sections (Overview, Steps, Examples, Expected Outcomes, Validation), meeting the simple-skill exception for a level-5 score.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Description

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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 is strong: it explicitly states both what the skill does and when to use it, lists several concrete actions, and occupies a distinct niche with low conflict risk. The only slight weakness is trigger-term coverage, which is good but not exhaustive of synonyms.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several concrete actions — 'altar preparation, sacrificial animal selection (三牢), ritual conduct, and event documentation' — covering the domain well with only minor gaps, matching the 'lists several specific actions' anchor rather than the fully comprehensive level 5.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Guides altar preparation, sacrificial animal selection (三牢), ritual conduct, and event documentation') and when ('Use when performing state sacrificial rituals (畤) to establish religious legitimacy or mark significant occasions') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the level-5 anchor.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural trigger phrases a user might say ('performing state sacrificial rituals', 'establish religious legitimacy', 'mark significant occasions') with good coverage, though a few common synonyms are missing, fitting the level-4 anchor above the level-3 'some relevant keywords' anchor.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (Qin state sacrificial rituals, 畤) with distinct, specialized triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills, matching the level-5 'clear niche with distinct triggers' anchor.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: baojie/shiji-kb
Path: kg/ontology/ontology-v1/skus/procedural/skill_024/SKILL.md
Commit: 6b836e3

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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