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writing-guidelines

Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my docs", "check writing style", "audit prose", "review docs voice and tone", or "check this page against the writing handbook".

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The canonical home for this skill is writing-guidelines in vercel-labs/agent-skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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

The body is lean and well-organized for a simple delegation skill, correctly relying on a fetched external ruleset rather than inlining guidelines. However, it duplicates its four-step workflow across two sections, never shows an example finding or output format, and provides no error handling for the fetch step it depends on.

Suggestions

Merge the 'How It Works' and 'Usage' sections into a single step list — they currently repeat the same four steps (fetch, read, apply, output) nearly verbatim.

Add a short example of the expected output (e.g., a sample `file:line` finding) so the result format is concrete even before the guidelines are fetched.

Add a fallback checkpoint for the critical fetch step, e.g., 'If the URL fetch fails, tell the user the guidelines are unavailable rather than reviewing from memory.'

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Conciseness

The body is short and free of concept over-explanation, but the "How It Works" and "Usage" sections repeat the same four steps (fetch guidelines, read files, apply rules, output findings) nearly verbatim, which could be collapsed into one list. Not 4 because this duplication is a noticeable redundancy; not 2 because there is no padded explanation of things Claude already knows.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete elements exist (the exact fetch URL, "Use WebFetch", "terse `file:line` format"), but no example finding or output sample is shown and "Output findings using the format specified in the guidelines" delegates the crucial output format to unseen fetched content. Not 4 because a key executable detail — what the output actually looks like — is never demonstrated inline.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The fetch → read → check → output sequence is listed with one explicit conditional ("If no files specified, ask the user"), but there are no checkpoints or error-recovery guidance (e.g., what to do if the guidelines fetch fails or a file is unreadable), and the steps are stated twice. Not 4 because validation/error handling is entirely absent rather than a minor gap.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist (no references/, scripts/, or assets/), and the body is ~30 lines with well-organized sections, so under the rubric's simple-skill exception (under 50 lines, no external file references needed) it qualifies for the top score. Not below 5 since the structure is clean, single-level, and easy to navigate.

5 / 5

Total

14

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20

Passed

Description

78%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.

A strong description with a clear what, an explicit and well-phrased 'Use when' clause containing multiple natural trigger phrases, and a distinct niche. Its main weakness is that it states only a single generic action — the concrete checks the review performs are never enumerated — and a few common trigger synonyms are absent.

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Specificity

"Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance" names the domain and one concrete action (compliance review), but never enumerates the specific checks performed (e.g., tone, formatting, grammar), matching the 1-2-concrete-actions anchor. Not 4 because it lists no several specific actions; not 2 because the action is concrete rather than generic.

3 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance") and when ("Use when asked to..." with five concrete quoted trigger phrases), matching the anchor for clearly and explicitly answering both. Not below 5 since neither half is vague or implied.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural user phrasings — "review my docs", "check writing style", "audit prose", "review docs voice and tone", "check this page against the writing handbook" — giving good synonym coverage. Not 5 because common variants like "proofread", "lint my docs", or "style guide check" are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Writing Guidelines compliance" and "writing handbook" carve a clear niche, but broad triggers like "review my docs" and "check writing style" could overlap with generic editing or proofreading skills. Not 5 because of that minor overlap risk; not 3 because the named guidelines standard keeps it mostly distinct.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

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.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository

boranfurkan/reproducer-hackathon

Path

skills/.agents/skills/writing-guidelines/SKILL.md

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