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confucian-educational-method

Use when designing curricula for moral education, mentorship, or self-cultivation programs. Applies Confucius's four teachings (文行忠信), four eliminations (绝四), and heuristic pedagogy (不愤不启) to develop comprehensive character through progressive mastery.

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Content

70%

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

The body is well-organized with a clear progressive sequence and explicit validation checkpoints, and it appropriately avoids external references for a short simple skill. Its weakness is actionability: the core frameworks are described/defined rather than turned into concrete curriculum-design steps, and a few lines are mildly redundant.

Suggestions

Turn the four teachings and four eliminations from definitions into concrete design steps (e.g., 'For each lesson, select a 文 text, pair it with a 行 practice task, and assess via 忠 and 信 criteria').

Trim the generic "Expected Outcomes" padding (e.g., 'Learning is internalized through struggle and discovery') to keep every line actionable.

Add a short worked example of a single lesson or unit that applies all four frameworks end-to-end so the method is copy-paste usable rather than descriptive.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient with terse bilingual lists, but the lead sentence ("A comprehensive approach to teaching moral philosophy...") and "Expected Outcomes" add generic philosophical padding ("Learning is internalized through struggle and discovery") that could be tightened. Not a 1 because it avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows; not a 3 because some lines don't earn their tokens.

2 / 3

Actionability

Concrete, testable guidance appears in Validation ("Test whether students can infer three corners", "Verify that learners demonstrate the four eliminations"), but the four teachings and eliminations are presented as definitions/descriptions rather than executable curriculum-design steps. As an instruction-only skill it has some concrete guidance but key details for actually building a curriculum are missing.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The progressive-mastery sequence (melody → technique → intent → character) is clearly ordered, and the Validation section provides explicit checkpoints with a feedback loop ("if not, revisit foundational instruction before advancing"). For a simple, non-destructive skill this meets the well-organized threshold; not below 3 because checkpoints are explicit rather than implicit.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

A simple skill under 50 lines with no external references needed; content is cleanly organized into distinct sections (Four Teachings, Four Eliminations, Teaching Principles, Expected Outcomes, Validation). Per the simple-skills note, well-organized sections earn a 3 without external file references.

3 / 3

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Description

100%

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 concise, specific, and complete: it states what the skill does, when to use it with an explicit "Use when..." clause, and names concrete Confucian frameworks as distinct triggers. It would naturally surface for moral-education and self-cultivation curriculum requests without conflicting with other skills.

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Specificity

Names multiple concrete, distinct frameworks — "four teachings (文行忠信)", "four eliminations (绝四)", and "heuristic pedagogy (不愤不启)" — plus a concrete outcome ("develop comprehensive character through progressive mastery"), matching the "lists multiple specific concrete actions" anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Applies Confucius's four teachings...") and when ("Use when designing curricula for moral education, mentorship, or self-cultivation programs") with an explicit "Use when..." trigger clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrasing a user would say when they need this skill — "curricula", "moral education", "mentorship", "self-cultivation programs" — giving good coverage of natural terms rather than jargon.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear, narrow niche (Confucian moral-education curriculum design) with distinct triggers, making it unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

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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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