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Print-inspired visual language for books, magazines, and reports with editorial grids and expressive typography.

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Quality

67%

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

85%

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

A well-structured, instruction-only guideline-authoring skill with a concrete output template, clear sequenced workflow, and QA validation step. It is mostly concise, though a few generic advisory sections could be trimmed.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly lean imperative bullets ('prefer semantic tokens over raw values', 'avoid low contrast text'), but sections like 'Expected Behavior' and 'Brand' restate generic advisory principles that could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

For an instruction-only skill it provides concrete, copy-paste-ready structure: a 'Required Output Structure' template, specific required component states (default, hover, focus-visible, active, disabled, loading, error), and must/should constraint language. Absence of code is not penalized since the guidance is actionable.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 'Guideline Authoring Workflow' is a clear 6-step numbered sequence that ends with an executable QA checklist ('End with a QA checklist that can be executed in code review'), giving an explicit validation checkpoint.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

It is a single self-contained file with no bundle files present, organized into clearly labeled sections (Mission, Style Foundations, Accessibility, Rules, Workflow, Quality Gates); no external references are needed, so well-organized sections satisfy the bar.

3 / 3

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12

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Description

50%

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 conveys a clear stylistic niche and domain but stops short of stating concrete actions or an explicit 'Use when' trigger, leaving the invocation conditions implied. Adding a trigger clause and action verbs would meaningfully improve it.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause (e.g., 'Use when designing books, magazines, reports, or other print-style editorial layouts').

Lead with concrete action verbs (e.g., 'Apply print-inspired visual language... build editorial grids...') instead of a noun-phrase style identity.

Broaden trigger-term coverage with natural variations like 'print design', 'editorial design', 'publication', and 'layout'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

It names the domain ('books, magazines, and reports') and concrete stylistic attributes ('editorial grids and expressive typography'), but describes a style identity rather than listing concrete actions, so it is not comprehensive.

2 / 3

Completeness

It clearly answers 'what' (a print-inspired visual language for publications) but provides no explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, so the 'when' is only implied and completeness is capped at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

It includes relevant natural terms ('print-inspired', 'books', 'magazines', 'reports', 'editorial grids') but misses common variations a user might say such as 'print design', 'editorial design', 'publication', or 'layout'.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The print/editorial publication niche is fairly distinct, but without explicit trigger guidance it could still overlap with other general design or typography skills.

2 / 3

Total

8

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12

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

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Repository
bergside/awesome-design-skills
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