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client-compatibility

Platform detection and adaptive spawning for CLI vs VS Code vs other surfaces

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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 an efficient, actionable reference with clear detection logic and concrete adaptation rules; its main weakness is minor redundancy between the prose bullets and the degradation table, and a lack of explicit spawn-validation checkpoints.

Suggestions

Merge the 'VS Code Spawn Adaptations' bullets and the 'Feature Degradation Table' into a single table to remove redundancy.

Add a brief validation step after spawning (e.g. confirm each subagent returned before proceeding) to strengthen the workflow for parallel fan-out.

Provide one fully concrete example call with real parameter values instead of '...' placeholders to lift actionability to 5.

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Conciseness

Lean, well-sectioned content that assumes Claude's competence and avoids explaining basics, with minor redundancy between the 'VS Code Spawn Adaptations' bullets and the 'Feature Degradation Table' that could be consolidated.

4 / 5

Actionability

Gives concrete parameter lists (drop agent_type/mode/model, keep charter/identity/task) and tool names with mostly executable TypeScript examples, though the examples use '...' placeholders rather than fully copy-paste-ready calls.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The platform-detection sequence is clearly numbered across three modes with a preference rule, and result-handling is specified; it stops short of explicit validation/feedback checkpoints for spawn failures.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into Context, Patterns, Examples, and Anti-Patterns with no nested references and no external bundle files needed; the inlined degradation table is the only piece that might warrant separation.

4 / 5

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Description

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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 what the skill does and names a specific niche, but it omits any 'when to use' trigger guidance and relies on somewhat technical phrasing rather than natural user terms.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming natural triggers, e.g. 'Use when spawning agents across CLI, VS Code, JetBrains, or GitHub.com surfaces.'

Soften jargon like 'adaptive spawning' with user-facing phrasing such as 'choosing the right agent-spawn tool per platform'.

Include synonyms/file-or-tool signals users actually mention ('Copilot CLI', 'VS Code Copilot', 'runSubagent') to improve trigger coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain and two concrete actions ('Platform detection' and 'adaptive spawning') plus the target surfaces (CLI, VS Code, other), but coverage of actions is limited to those two rather than comprehensive.

3 / 5

Completeness

Provides a clear 'what' but no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the rubric guidelines.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes some natural surface keywords ('CLI', 'VS Code') but leans on technical jargon ('adaptive spawning', 'platform detection') and lacks synonyms or common variations a user would naturally say.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The multi-surface spawning niche is fairly distinct with low overlap risk, though the absence of an explicit trigger clause keeps it just below a 5.

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

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Total

15

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16

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bradygaster/squad
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