diplomatic-favor-request

Use when requesting assistance from a powerful party at negligible cost to them. Based on Su Dai's (苏代) candlelight metaphor — framing the request as sharing excess that costs nothing ('your candlelight has surplus; share it and lose nothing') to maximize willingness to help.

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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.

The content is well-structured with actionable template language and explicit validation checkpoints, but it repeats the central principle across several sections and could be tightened.

Suggestions

Remove the redundant restatement of the 'costs them nothing / helps you greatly' principle — keep it in either the Overview or the Key Principle section, not both plus the opening line.

Tighten Step 5's 'Create obligation for future reciprocity' into a concrete phrasing the user can deploy, matching the specificity of the metaphor quote.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly tight, but the core principle ('cost them nothing / helps you greatly') is restated across the opening line, the Overview, and the Key Principle section, so it could be tightened by collapsing that redundancy.	2 / 3
Actionability	It provides concrete, copy-ready language — the full poor-woman/rich-woman metaphor quote and the template phrase 'No loss to you, great gain for me' — giving Claude specific things to actually say.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The five steps are clearly sequenced and the Validation section supplies three explicit checkpoints (confirm negligible cost, verify honest acknowledgement of need, confirm gratitude/reciprocity), forming a feedback loop.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	This is a short, single-purpose skill with no bundle files and well-organized sections (Overview, Steps, Key Principle, Expected Outcomes, Validation), which satisfies the simple-skill allowance for a top score.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

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 has a clear explicit 'Use when' trigger and a distinct niche, but its trigger vocabulary leans literary rather than natural and it states one framing approach instead of multiple concrete actions.

Suggestions

Add common natural trigger terms users would actually say (e.g., 'ask for a favor', 'request help from someone influential', 'get a referral or introduction').

List a couple of concrete capability actions (e.g., 'frame a request, identify the giver's surplus, propose a zero-cost ask') rather than a single framing technique.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain ('requesting assistance from a powerful party at negligible cost') and the core action ('framing the request as sharing excess'), but describes a single framing technique rather than a list of multiple concrete actions, so it is not comprehensive.	2 / 3
Completeness	It explicitly answers both 'what' (frame the request as sharing excess that costs nothing to maximize willingness to help) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when requesting assistance...' trigger clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	It includes some natural terms ('requesting assistance', 'favor', 'powerful party'), but literary phrasing like 'candlelight metaphor' and 'negligible cost' are not phrases a user would naturally say, and common variations ('ask for a favor', 'get help from someone influential') are missing.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The diplomatic-favor / negligible-cost framing is a clear, narrow niche with distinct triggers unlikely to overlap with other skills.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 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_148/SKILL.md
Commit: 79c272f

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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