diplomatic-state-assessment

Use when assessing foreign state stability, predicting political upheaval, or advising allies on self-preservation. Follows Ji Zha's diplomatic mission model across Qi, Zheng, Wei, and Jin to evaluate leadership and identify safe havens.

Quality

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Quality

Content

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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 content is well-structured and concise with a clear sequenced workflow and an explicit validation section. Its weakest point is actionability: the guidance is a heuristic framework rather than concrete, executable steps.

Suggestions

Tighten or merge the "Decision Points" and "Expected Outcomes" sections, which largely restate the Steps, to remove redundancy and improve conciseness.

Add concrete, executable detail to each step (e.g., specific signals or criteria to look for when assessing power concentration) rather than leaving guidance at the heuristic level.

Introduce a light feedback loop in Validation (e.g., re-assess if a predicted outcome contradicts observed evidence) to lift workflow clarity toward 5.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is list-driven and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the "Decision Points" and "Expected Outcomes" sections partially restate the Steps, leaving minor trimming opportunities that keep it below 5.	4 / 5
Actionability	Guidance is concrete in places ("Recommend divestment of power/territory when danger looms," the named examples for Qi/Zheng/Wei/Jin) but mostly stays at a high-level heuristic level without the specific, executable detail needed to fully carry out the assessment.	3 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear four-step sequence is present and an explicit "Validation" section provides three checkpoints, but there are no feedback loops (validate → fix → retry) for error recovery, capping it just below 5.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The body is under 50 lines, requires no external references (none exist), and is organized into well-labeled sections (Overview, Steps, Examples, Decision Points, Expected Outcomes, Validation), meeting the simple-skill exception for a top score.	5 / 5
	Total	16 / 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 is strong: it pairs an explicit "Use when" trigger clause with a clear statement of capability and a distinctive historical framing. Its main limitation is that the listed actions are conceptual rather than mechanically concrete, and it lacks synonym coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and several concrete actions — "assessing foreign state stability, predicting political upheaval, advising allies on self-preservation, evaluate leadership, identify safe havens" — but the actions are conceptual rather than mechanically concrete, leaving minor coverage gaps versus the score-5 anchor.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both "what" ("Follows Ji Zha's diplomatic mission model... to evaluate leadership and identify safe havens") and "when" ("Use when assessing foreign state stability, predicting political upheaval, or advising allies on self-preservation") with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural trigger phrases a user might say ("assessing foreign state stability," "predicting political upheaval," "advising allies on self-preservation") with good coverage, but lacks synonyms and broader variations that would push it to 5.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The Ji Zha diplomatic-mission framing is a clear niche with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk, but "advising allies on self-preservation" has minor overlap with general advisory or strategy skills, keeping it just below 5.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Validation

100%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository: baojie/shiji-kb
Path: kg/ontology/ontology-v1/skus/procedural/skill_064/SKILL.md
Commit: 6b836e3

Reviewed: 13 days ago

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