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diplomatic-persuasion-by-analogy

Use when dissuading a victorious leader from overextending through further military action. Employs the 'painting feet on a snake' (画蛇添足) analogy to demonstrate that additional gains risk losing everything already achieved, and frames withdrawal as preserving honor.

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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 compact, well-organized persuasion playbook with a clear sequence and verification, appropriate for a simple instruction-only skill. Tightening the repeated core principle and making the step wording more concrete would lift it further.

Suggestions

Collapse the duplicated 'already at the top, further action can only lose' statement from the intro, Overview, and Key Principle into one place to improve conciseness.

Make each step more actionable by adding sample phrasing (e.g., specific lines for acknowledging the victory and for framing withdrawal) rather than abstract directives.

Fold the three Verification checks into the relevant steps as inline checkpoints instead of a separate trailing section.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence, but the opening line, Overview, and Key Principle each restate the same "already at the top, further action risks loss" idea, leaving minor trimming possible.

4 / 5

Actionability

As an instruction-only skill it gives concrete guidance — a fully described analogy and four named steps — but several steps ("Recognize the victory", "Establish that the person has reached the highest position possible") stay abstract rather than giving specific phrasing or moves.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The four steps are clearly sequenced and a dedicated Verification section provides explicit checkpoints; it stops short of a 5 because verification is appended at the end rather than interleaved as feedback checkpoints within the flow.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Under 50 lines, single-purpose, with no external references needed and clean section headers (Overview, Steps, Key Principle, Expected Outcome, Verification) — meeting the simple-skill exception for a 5.

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 well-crafted description that concisely states both the trigger condition and the method, using third person and concrete framing. It is distinctive and unlikely to misfire, with only minor room to broaden trigger synonyms.

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Specificity

Names the domain and several concrete actions — "dissuading a victorious leader from overextending", "Employs the 'painting feet on a snake' analogy to demonstrate", "frames withdrawal as preserving honor" — but the actions are conceptual rather than a comprehensive operational list.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both what (employs the analogy, frames withdrawal as preserving honor) and when ("Use when dissuading a victorious leader from overextending through further military action") with a concrete trigger clause.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural trigger phrases like "victorious leader", "overextending", "further military action", and "withdrawal" are present and would plausibly be said by a user, though a few common synonyms are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (diplomatic persuasion of a victorious leader via a specific classical analogy) with distinct triggers and minimal overlap with other skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

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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

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