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

The body is a tight, well-structured instruction skill with concrete phrasing, clear sequencing, and a validation section. Main improvement is reducing minor restatement across Overview/Key Principle/Expected Outcomes.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and assumes competence, with the metaphor quote and steps carrying the load; minor redundancy between Overview, Key Principle, and Expected Outcomes could be tightened, keeping it just below a 5.	4 / 5
Actionability	For an instruction-only soft skill it gives concrete, usable guidance: numbered steps, the exact metaphor quote to adapt, and the specific emphasis line "No loss to you, great gain for me"; it stops short of fully copy-paste-ready templates.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Five sequenced steps with sub-bullets plus an explicit Validation section provide clear checkpoints; it lacks a true validate→fix→retry feedback loop, but the operation is non-destructive so that is not required.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Under 50 lines, single-purpose, no bundle files, and well-organized into Overview, Steps, Key Principle, Expected Outcomes, and Validation sections — meeting the simple-skill exception for a top score without external references.	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 has a clear explicit trigger and a distinct, memorable framing, but it leans on the metaphor at the expense of crisp concrete actions and natural trigger synonyms. Tightening the action list and adding common phrasings like "ask a favor" would raise it.

Suggestions

Lead with concrete actions (e.g., "Request a favor by framing it as zero-cost to the giver") before introducing the metaphor.

Add natural trigger synonyms users would say, such as "ask a favor", "request a favor", or "ask for help from someone more powerful".

Trim the embedded metaphor quote in the description; keep a brief reference and let the body carry the full quote.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	It names the domain ("requesting assistance from a powerful party at negligible cost") and a concrete framing action ("framing the request as sharing excess that costs nothing"), but the candlelight metaphor occupies most of the description rather than a comprehensive list of concrete actions.	3 / 5
Completeness	Both the "what" (framing the request as zero-cost sharing) and an explicit "Use when…" trigger are present; the when is reasonably clear but the what is wrapped in metaphor rather than crisp concrete actions, so it is not a 5.	4 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	It includes some relevant natural terms ("requesting assistance", "negligible cost", "willingness to help") but misses common variations a user would actually say such as "ask a favor", "request a favor", or "ask for help from someone powerful".	3 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The niche (requesting a favor from a powerful party by emphasizing negligible cost, anchored by the candlelight metaphor) is fairly distinct and unlikely to trigger the wrong skill, though "requesting assistance" broadly overlaps general help-request skills.	4 / 5
	Total	14 / 20 Passed

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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: 6b836e3

Reviewed: 13 days ago

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