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bmad-agent-analyst

Business analyst for market research, competitive analysis, and requirements. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

81%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The body is a tightly written, fully actionable agent-activation workflow with explicit sequencing, fallback procedures, and validation checkpoints. It assumes Claude's competence and avoids concept padding, with only minor room to tighten persona prose.

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Conciseness

Lean and procedural with concrete commands and no padding of concepts Claude already knows; a few persona-embodying prose lines ('Fully embody this persona...') could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready `uv run` commands plus an explicit fallback merge procedure; the many runtime-resolved templated variables ({agent.*}, {project-root}) are a minor gap versus fully concrete guidance.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Eight clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation checkpoints — script-failure fallback, 'confirm every entry was executed in order', and 'Stop and wait for input' at the menu — providing feedback loops for error recovery.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clearly headed sections in a single cohesive activation file; at ~70 lines with no bundle reference files it is just outside the simple-skill exception that would merit a 5.

4 / 5

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Description

70%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 clearly states the skill's purpose and provides explicit persona-based triggers, but it leads with capability domains rather than concrete actions and under-covers domain-level trigger terms. It is functional but could be sharper.

Suggestions

Replace domain labels with concrete actions, e.g. 'elicits and structures requirements, runs competitive analyses, produces market-research summaries'.

Add domain-level trigger terms users would actually say ('market analysis', 'competitive analysis', 'requirements gathering') alongside the persona triggers.

Tighten the 'when' clause so it triggers on both the persona ('talk to Mary') and the task ('needs market research or requirements elicitation').

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Specificity

Names the domain and three capability areas (market research, competitive analysis, requirements), but these are domain labels rather than concrete actions, fitting between anchor 3 and 4.

3 / 5

Completeness

Answers both 'what' (business analyst for the listed domains) and 'when' (explicit Use-when clause with concrete triggers); the 'what' is domain-level rather than action-level, keeping it below 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural persona triggers ('talk to Mary', 'requests the business analyst') but omits domain-level synonyms a user might say (e.g. 'market analysis', 'competitive landscape'), leaving a few natural terms missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'Mary' persona trigger makes it mostly distinct, but the broad 'business analyst / market research' framing carries minor overlap risk with general research or analyst skills.

4 / 5

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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

Validation for skill structure

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Referenced path issues: 1 missing

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Repository
bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD
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