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court-politics-survival-strategy

Use when a powerful minister faces suspicion from a ruler or when navigating dangerous court politics. Deploys four survival strategies — hostage-sending, deliberate self-pollution (自汙), graceful punishment acceptance, and honor-declining — to reduce perceived threat level.

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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.

A well-organized, concise instruction-only skill with concrete actionable steps and an explicit validation section. It is close to excellent, held back only by a few abstract behavioral steps and monitoring-style rather than feedback-loop validation.

Suggestions

Tighten trailing justificatory sentences (e.g. "This demonstrates loyalty and gives the ruler leverage") so each step states only the action.

Replace abstract steps like "Engage in behavior that appears corrupt or self-interested" with one or two concrete example behaviors to raise actionability.

Add a brief feedback loop to the Validation section (what to do if surveillance has not decreased after applying a strategy) to strengthen workflow clarity.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes competence, with no padding of concepts Claude already knows; a few trailing justificatory lines (e.g. "This demonstrates loyalty and gives the ruler leverage") could be trimmed for a fully token-efficient presentation.

4 / 5

Actionability

Most steps are concrete and executable ("Purchase land and property at below-market prices", "Send all male family members... to the front lines", "Contribute personal wealth to military expenses"), though a few remain behavioral/abstract ("Engage in behavior that appears corrupt or self-interested").

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Each strategy has a clear numbered sequence and an explicit Validation section with three verification checks, but validation is monitoring-oriented rather than a validate-fix-retry feedback loop, leaving minor checkpoint gaps.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

At under 50 lines with well-organized sections and no need for external references, the single-purpose content is clearly structured and easy to navigate, satisfying the simple-skill exception.

5 / 5

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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.

A strong, specific description that explicitly states both capability and trigger conditions in third person, naming four concrete strategies. It is concise and clearly distinguishable, with only minor room for additional synonymous trigger phrasings.

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Specificity

Explicitly enumerates four concrete survival strategies ("hostage-sending, deliberate self-pollution (自汙), graceful punishment acceptance, and honor-declining"), giving comprehensive coverage of specific actions rather than vague language.

5 / 5

Completeness

Clearly answers both what ("Deploys four survival strategies... to reduce perceived threat level") and when ("Use when a powerful minister faces suspicion from a ruler or when navigating dangerous court politics") with concrete trigger phrasing.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"powerful minister faces suspicion from a ruler" and "navigating dangerous court politics" are natural trigger phrases a user would say, though coverage of synonymous phrasings is limited within this niche domain.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (court-politics survival) with distinct triggers and negligible overlap risk against other skills.

5 / 5

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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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