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political-self-protection-through-greed

Use when entrusted with dangerous levels of military or political power by a suspicious ruler. Based on Wang Jian's (王翦) strategy — repeatedly requesting personal land, houses, and gardens to signal you seek wealth, not power, thereby reducing the ruler's fear of betrayal.

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Content

85%

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

A lean, well-structured instruction skill with concrete steps and an explicit validation section. The main inefficiency is mild redundancy between the Overview, Key Principle, and the frontmatter description.

Suggestions

Collapse the Overview and Key Principle into a single statement to remove overlap with the frontmatter description and lift conciseness toward a 3.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is short and free of basic-concept padding, but the Overview and Key Principle restate the frontmatter description ('repeatedly request personal rewards... self-interest, not ambition' vs 'A ruler fears those who want power'), so not every token earns its place as required for a 3.

2 / 3

Actionability

Numbered steps give concrete sub-actions ('Ask for land, houses, gardens for descendants', 'Make requests publicly or in official channels', 'Send multiple follow-up requests'), which is specific and actionable for an instruction-only skill where absence of code is not penalized.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear five-step sequence is paired with an explicit Validation section listing checkpoints (e.g. 'this strategy works only with rulers who fear ambitious generals'), matching the clear-sequence-with-explicit-validation anchor rather than the missing-checkpoint level 2.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is under 50 lines, has no external references, and is organized into clear sections (Overview, Steps, Key Principle, Expected Outcomes, Validation), which per the rubric's simple-skills note earns a 3 on well-organized sections alone.

3 / 3

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12

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Description

85%

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 concise, well-targeted description with an explicit 'Use when' trigger and concrete actions. Its only weakness is trigger-term breadth, as it describes a single scenario without common phrasing variations.

Suggestions

Add one or two natural trigger variations (e.g. 'when a ruler distrusts a powerful general' or 'when given command an ambitious ruler might resent') so users with different phrasings still surface the skill.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'repeatedly requesting personal land, houses, and gardens' — matching the anchor for several specific concrete actions rather than a single vague domain mention.

3 / 3

Completeness

An explicit 'Use when entrusted with...' clause answers when, and 'repeatedly requesting personal land, houses, and gardens to signal you seek wealth, not power' answers what, satisfying the both-what-and-when-with-explicit-triggers anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Relevant terms like 'suspicious ruler' and 'military or political power' are natural, but only one trigger scenario is covered with no common variations, fitting 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations' rather than the broad coverage of a 3.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Wang Jian (王翦) framing and the wealth-vs-power trigger carve a clear niche unlikely to fire for any other skill, matching the distinct-triggers anchor; it is well above the overlapping 'Works with document files' level 2.

3 / 3

Total

11

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12

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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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

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