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ruler-self-cultivation-guidelines

Use when advising leaders on self-discipline, virtue maintenance, or preventing institutional decline. Applies Zhou Gong's teachings to King Cheng with models from Yin dynasty rulers like Zhong Zong, Gao Zong, and Zu Jia to identify habits that sustain or destroy long-term rule.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

72%

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

A concise, well-organized advisory skill that adds genuine domain knowledge, but it leans descriptive rather than actionable and lacks a clear sequenced workflow with feedback loops. Its simple, self-contained structure earns full progressive-disclosure credit.

Suggestions

Add concrete, actionable guidance translating the exemplary models into specific habits or practices a leader should adopt, rather than only describing what past rulers did.

Convert the Verification checklist into a sequenced workflow with explicit feedback loops (e.g., detect misalignment -> adjust practice -> re-verify) to raise workflow clarity.

Tie each Expected Outcome to a measurable signal so the verification steps confirm outcomes rather than restating principles.

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Conciseness

The body is a lean set of bullet lists with specific domain facts (reign durations, ruler attributes) that Claude does not already know, with no padding or explanation of common concepts, so every token earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

It mostly describes what exemplary rulers did (humility, diligence, reverence) rather than giving concrete instructive steps; the Verification section is the main actionable part, but key guidance remains incomplete.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A numbered Verification checklist provides some validation checkpoints, but there is no tightly sequenced multi-step workflow with explicit feedback loops or error-recovery guidance.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and the body is under 50 lines with well-organized sections (Overview, Core Teaching, Exemplary Models, Warning/Positive Examples, Expected Outcomes, Verification), satisfying the simple-skills allowance for a top score.

3 / 3

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Description

75%

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 strong description with explicit trigger guidance and a distinctive niche, weakened only by somewhat abstract action verbs and formal trigger phrasing. It clearly answers both what the skill does and when to use it.

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Specificity

The description names the domain and some actions ('advising leaders on self-discipline, virtue maintenance', 'identify habits that sustain or destroy long-term rule'), but the actions are abstract rather than a comprehensive list of concrete operations, so it sits at the middle anchor.

2 / 3

Completeness

It opens with an explicit 'Use when advising leaders on self-discipline, virtue maintenance, or preventing institutional decline' trigger and follows with what it does ('Applies Zhou Gong's teachings... to identify habits'), clearly answering both what and when.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Terms like 'self-discipline', 'virtue maintenance', and 'preventing institutional decline' are relevant but phrased in formal/academic language and miss more common user variations, placing it below the full-coverage anchor.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is highly specific (Zhou Gong's teachings, Yin dynasty rulers Zhong Zong, Gao Zong, Zu Jia), making it clearly distinguishable and very unlikely to trigger for an unrelated skill.

3 / 3

Total

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12

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Validation

100%

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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