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bmad-editorial-review

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review.

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Quality

50%

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

65%

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 dense, highly actionable set of forwarding instructions with concrete lenses, ordering, field passthrough, and output shape. Its main weaknesses are presentation — a single run-on paragraph with nested caveats — rather than a lack of substance.

Suggestions

Break the run-on paragraph into short labeled steps or a checklist (e.g., '1. Invoke bmad-review...', '2. Pass through resolved fields...', '3. Present findings...') to lift workflow clarity.

Pull the list of [workflow] fields into a bulleted list so the passthrough rule is scannable rather than buried mid-sentence.

Consider an explicit verification checkpoint (e.g., confirm both lenses ran and only resolved fields were forwarded) before presenting the legacy-shaped output.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

It assumes Claude's competence and avoids explaining basic concepts, but the single run-on paragraph with nested caveat asides (e.g., "but only those that resolved to something, since an empty value here means...") could be tightened, matching the score-2 anchor.

2 / 3

Actionability

It gives fully concrete, executable guidance — specific lenses, structure-first ordering, an explicit field list to pass through, and the exact table shape '| Pass | Original Text | Revised Text | Changes |' — leaving nothing abstract.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear sequence is present (structure first, then prose on top) with conditional handling, but it is prose rather than numbered steps and has no explicit validation checkpoints, fitting the score-2 anchor.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is short and self-contained with no external references needed, but the content is one un-sectioned dense paragraph rather than well-organized sections, so it does not reach the score-3 bar for short skills.

2 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Description

35%

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 a terse deprecation notice that names its single action and target skill but provides no natural trigger terms or use-when guidance. It is functional for a forwarder yet underspecified for triggering.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming natural trigger phrases users would say for an editorial review.

Replace or supplement the jargon term 'bmad-review' with plain-language terms like 'editorial review', 'structure and prose review', or 'two-pass editing'.

Briefly state the legacy capability being preserved (e.g., 'two-pass editorial review') so the 'what' is more than just 'forwards'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Quotes a concrete action ("forwards to bmad-review") and a named domain, but offers only that single action, so it falls short of listing multiple concrete actions like the score-3 anchor.

2 / 3

Completeness

It states a minimal "what" (forwards to bmad-review) but provides no "Use when..." trigger guidance, so "when" is missing and completeness is capped at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The only terms are "Deprecated", "forwards", and "bmad-review" — technical jargon with no natural keywords a user would say when needing this skill, matching the score-1 anchor.

1 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Naming the specific target skill gives it a niche, but with no trigger terms it could still overlap with the bmad-review skill itself, so it is not fully distinct.

2 / 3

Total

7

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12

Passed

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

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD
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