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retro

Throwback design with vintage-inspired typography, high-contrast retro palettes, and nostalgic visual elements.

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Quality

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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.

The body is concise, well-structured, and presents a clear authoring workflow with a QA checkpoint, scoring high on conciseness, workflow clarity, and progressive disclosure. Its main weakness is actionability: guidance is instructional and high-level rather than concrete with executable examples.

Suggestions

Add one or two concrete, copy-paste guideline examples (e.g. a sample component rule block showing anatomy, states, and token usage) to lift actionability toward 3.

Show a short worked token example (e.g. a button rule referencing primary=#3B82F6 and focus-visible styling) instead of only describing what to state.

Optionally include a compact filled-in QA checklist example to make the validation step concrete.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and section-organized with no padding or explanations of concepts Claude already knows; every line (tokens, weights, rules, workflow) earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

Guidance like "Define required states: default, hover, focus-visible..." and "State spacing, typography, and color-token usage explicitly" directs Claude but provides no concrete, copy-paste examples or executable snippets, landing between abstract direction and fully executable instruction.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear six-step "Guideline Authoring Workflow" is sequenced explicitly and reinforced by a QA checklist that functions as a validation checkpoint; no destructive/batch operation triggers the feedback-loop cap.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

This is a simple, single-file skill under 50 lines with no bundle files, and its sections are well-organized with clear headers, meeting the rubric's allowance for simple skills to score 3 on progressive disclosure.

3 / 3

Total

11

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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 communicates a clear retro/vintage aesthetic but reads as a style statement rather than a capability-and-trigger description. It lacks concrete actions and an explicit "Use when..." clause, capping most dimensions at 2.

Suggestions

Lead with concrete actions the skill performs, e.g. "Authors retro design-system guidelines with vintage typography, high-contrast palettes, and nostalgic elements."

Add an explicit "Use when..." trigger clause naming natural user terms like retro, vintage, throwback, or 80s/90s styling requests.

Include common trigger variations (e.g. "retro UI", "vintage palette", "nostalgic design") to improve trigger coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the retro design domain and several attributes ("vintage-inspired typography, high-contrast retro palettes, and nostalgic visual elements") but lists no concrete actions the skill performs, so it falls short of the multi-action anchor at 3 while being more specific than vague fluff at 1.

2 / 3

Completeness

It conveys what the aesthetic is but omits any explicit "Use when..." trigger guidance, which the rubric caps at 2; it is not so weak as to score 1.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

"retro" and "vintage" are natural terms a user might say, but coverage is thin and phrased as a stylistic description rather than the natural trigger-keyword set expected at level 3.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Retro design" is a reasonably distinct niche but the generic "throwback design" framing could still overlap with general brand/design skills, placing it between the conflicting and clearly-distinct anchors.

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

Passed

Repository
bergside/awesome-design-skills
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