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strategic-retreat-decision

Use when balancing honor-based commitments against tactical military advantage. Applies Duke Wen's three-stage retreat (三舍) framework: recalling past agreements, assessing current position, weighing long-term reputation versus immediate gains, and documenting decision rationale.

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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.

The body is concise, well-structured, and includes a clear sequenced workflow with explicit verification checkpoints. The only soft spot is actionability, where the decision guidance is concrete but remains somewhat abstract rather than fully executable.

Suggestions

Make the decision output more actionable by specifying exactly what to produce (e.g. a short written decision record with named fields like 'agreement reviewed', 'tactical odds', 'chosen action') rather than "Record decision rationale".

Tighten the conditional branches into a small decision matrix so the mapping from situation to action is unambiguous and copy-paste ready.

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Conciseness

The body is lean with no padding or re-explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every section earns its place, matching the lean-and-efficient anchor.

3 / 3

Actionability

Concrete conditional branches ("If agreement exists and honor is paramount → Retreat as promised") give specific guidance, but the actions stay abstract rather than copy-paste ready, fitting the incomplete-guidance anchor.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear five-step sequence is paired with an explicit Verification section containing validation checkpoints ("Confirm... before making the decision", "Validate... has been weighed"), matching the explicit-validation anchor.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

A simple, under-50-line skill with well-organized sections and no need for external references; per the simple-skills note this can score 3 without separate files.

3 / 3

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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.

The description is specific and complete with an explicit trigger and a clear, distinctive niche. Its main weakness is trigger-term quality: the phrasing is academic rather than the natural language a user would actually say.

Suggestions

Add plain-language trigger terms a user would naturally say (e.g. 'deciding whether to keep a promise in a conflict' or 'should I honor an agreement vs. take the advantage').

Keep the academic framing as supporting context but lead with more colloquial keywords to improve natural recall.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — "recalling past agreements, assessing current position, weighing long-term reputation versus immediate gains, and documenting decision rationale" — matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicit "Use when balancing..." trigger plus a clear statement of what the framework does answers both what and when, matching the top anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

"honor-based commitments" and "tactical military advantage" are relevant but niche/academic; a user would not naturally voice these terms, and common variations are missing.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The honor-vs-tactical retreat niche is distinctive with triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the clear-niche anchor.

3 / 3

Total

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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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