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historical-pattern-analysis

Use when analyzing dynastic cycles, predicting political decline, or extracting governance lessons from history. Traces patterns of rise and fall (兴坏之端) across origins, development, turning points, and collapse.

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SKILL.md
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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 a compact, well-structured analytical framework with clear sequencing and built-in validation. Its main weakness is actionability: it enumerates themes to look for but gives little concrete method for performing the analysis or extracting principles, capping it below the top tier.

Suggestions

Add a brief concrete method for each step (e.g., how to compare cases, what evidence to weigh) so the framework is executable rather than a checklist of themes.

Show one worked mini-example of deriving a principle from two cases to make the 'Extract principles' and 'Apply as mirror' steps actionable.

Tighten the Decision Points into explicit if/then rules with a concrete next action for each branch.

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Conciseness

The body is lean with no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows; terse bulleted themes (积善累功, 德治, 骨奢) keep token use low, with only minor list-heaviness that could be tightened.

4 / 5

Actionability

It supplies concrete thematic factors to examine (天命, 制度, 形势, 失德) but offers no methodology for how to synthesize cases into principles or apply them, leaving the guidance incomplete for an instruction-only skill.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Six steps are clearly sequenced (origin → development → turning points → end → principles → apply) and a Validation section plus Decision Points provide checkpoints, with only minor gaps in explicit feedback loops.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

As a sub-50-line single-file skill with no external references needed, it is well-organized into Overview, Steps, Decision Points, Expected Outcomes, and Validation sections, satisfying the simple-skill exception for a top score.

5 / 5

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Description

75%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 well-constructed: it pairs a clear statement of capability with an explicit, multi-trigger 'Use when' clause and occupies a distinctive niche. It sits solidly at the 4-anchor across all dimensions, just short of 5 due to modest room for more concrete action verbs and additional trigger synonyms.

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Specificity

Names several concrete actions ("analyzing dynastic cycles, predicting political decline, or extracting governance lessons") and traces patterns across four explicit phases, giving comprehensive coverage within its niche with only minor gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Clearly states what it does ("Traces patterns of rise and fall... across origins, development, turning points, and collapse") and provides an explicit "Use when..." clause with multiple triggers; the 'when' could be slightly more specific but both halves are present.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases a user would say ("analyzing dynastic cycles", "predicting political decline", "extracting governance lessons from history") with good coverage, though a few common synonyms are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche (dynastic-cycle / political-decline analysis) is distinctive with triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, with only minor overlap risk against broader history or political-analysis skills.

4 / 5

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Passed

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.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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