strategic-decision-under-ill-omens

Use when strategic factors favor action but divination or omens suggest failure. Applies Taigong's counsel at the Battle of Muye: assess enemy vulnerability and cause justice independently of superstitious signs to avoid paralysis.

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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-organized decision framework with a clear sequenced workflow and an explicit validation checklist. It is instruction-only but actionable, with only minor conciseness and abstraction gaps preventing top marks on the more demanding dimensions.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and sectioned with minimal padding, mostly assuming Claude's competence; the Historical Example and Expected Outcomes sections add a little illustrative material that could be trimmed but is not severely verbose.	4 / 5
Actionability	As an instruction-only skill it gives concrete, specific guidance via enumerated questions ('Is the enemy vulnerable?', 'Is the cause just?') and a decisive rule ('If strategic factors strongly favor action, proceed despite omens'); absence of code is justified, with only minor abstraction gaps.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear five-step sequence is present and the closing Validation section supplies explicit checkpoints (confirm independent assessment, verify advisor-backed decision, check full commitment); this is a decision framework rather than a destructive/batch operation, so the destructive cap does not apply, and it falls just short of full feedback-loop error recovery.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	This is a simple, single-purpose skill under 50 lines with no need for external references, and it is well-organized into clear sections (Overview, Dilemma, Framework, Historical Example, Outcomes, Validation), meeting the simple-skill exception for a top score.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

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The description is well-structured with an explicit 'Use when' trigger and a clear, niche framing that distinguishes it from other skills. Its main weakness is limited specificity and trigger-term breadth, listing only a couple of actions and phrasings.

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Add one or two more concrete actions the skill performs (e.g., 'weigh the cost of delay', 'secure an advisor's advocacy') to lift specificity beyond the single 'assess enemy vulnerability and cause justice' phrase.

Broaden trigger terms with natural synonyms users might say, such as 'bad omens', 'unfavorable divination', or 'superstitious signs', so activation matches more phrasings.

Tighten the 'when' clause to name the decision context explicitly (e.g., 'when a leader hesitates to act due to unfavorable signs despite favorable strategic conditions').

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	It names the domain and a couple of concrete actions ('assess enemy vulnerability and cause justice independently of superstitious signs to avoid paralysis'), but coverage is limited to these few abstract actions rather than a comprehensive list.	3 / 5
Completeness	It explicitly answers both 'what' ('Applies Taigong's counsel ... assess enemy vulnerability and cause justice ... to avoid paralysis') and 'when' ('Use when strategic factors favor action but divination or omens suggest failure'), with the 'when' reasonably concrete; just shy of fully comprehensive trigger phrasing.	4 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Relevant trigger terms like 'strategic factors favor action', 'divination or omens suggest failure' are present, but it lacks common variations or synonyms beyond 'divination'/'omens' and reads as a single specific phrasing rather than broad natural coverage.	3 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The niche is clear and distinctive ('strategic decision under ill omens', Battle of Muye framing), with minimal overlap risk against other skills; only minor breadth keeps it from a perfect fit.	4 / 5
	Total	14 / 20 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: baojie/shiji-kb
Path: kg/ontology/ontology-v1/skus/procedural/skill_074/SKILL.md
Commit: 6b836e3

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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