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security-comms

Translate technical security work into the language of non-security audiences — board, executives, engineering, customer success, customers, legal, procurement, sales. Covers incident communication, post-mortem narrative, audit-findings-for-stakeholders, risk justification, security spend justification, and customer-facing breach disclosure. Use when the user mentions 'security comms,' 'communicate this finding,' 'explain to my boss,' 'board update,' 'executive summary,' 'incident communication,' 'breach notification letter,' 'customer disclosure,' 'security memo,' 'post-mortem narrative,' 'why this matters to the business,' 'translate this finding,' 'stakeholder update,' or has technical security work that needs to land with a non-security audience.

Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

88%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.

A strong, highly actionable skill body: the seven-audience register guide, two-mode workflow with explicit validation checkpoints, and six complete templates give Claude everything needed to execute. The main improvements are trimming the marketing-toned intro copy and splitting the template library into a referenced file so SKILL.md stays a leaner overview.

Suggestions

Delete the positioning copy in the intro ('closes the gap every other skill produces,' 'two to three times a week,' 'cuts the time-to-first-draft from 90 minutes to 10') — none of it changes how the skill is executed.

Move the six templates into a references/templates.md (or per-audience files) and keep one exemplar template inline, so SKILL.md stays a lean overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references.

Remove or qualify the cross-references to sibling skills ('finding-triage,' 'incident-triage') that do not exist in this bundle, since they read as navigation pointers to files that aren't there.

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Conciseness

The body is dense with non-obvious, audience-specific guidance and assumes Claude's competence (no re-teaching of what a CVE or a post-mortem is), but the intro carries positioning puffery — 'The skill that closes the gap every other skill produces,' 'the skill security practitioners reach for two to three times a week,' 'cuts the time-to-first-draft from 90 minutes to 10' — that could be trimmed. This is 'efficient with minor instances of over-explanation,' not the lean every-token-earns-its-place level.

4 / 5

Actionability

Six complete, fill-in-ready templates (board update, executive memo, breach disclosure, post-mortem, audit-findings translation, SE FAQ) plus concrete format specs and worked good/bad pairs ('"we have 47 vulnerabilities" tells them nothing; "two of our payments-team services have unpatched issues..." tells them what to do'). As an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully executable and covers the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Mode 1 is a clearly sequenced six-step draft workflow with an explicit validation checkpoint (step 6, second-reviewer pass) and a decision rule ('If you cannot name the decision in one sentence, the audience does not have one'); Mode 2 is a five-point review checklist (audience/decision/jargon/hedging/specificity). Explicit validation steps plus a checklist match the top anchor; the destructive/batch cap does not apply since drafting comms is neither.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-organized with clean H2/H3 sections (Authorization → Audiences → Workflow → Templates → Boundaries) and easy navigation, but it is a single ~280-line file: the six templates (~120 lines) could be split into a references/ file to slim the main skill, and the body cross-references sibling skills ('finding-triage,' 'incident-triage') that are not present in this bundle. Good structure with minor organization gaps rather than a clean overview with one-level-deep references.

4 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Description

96%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.

An excellent description: it states a concrete capability set for a well-defined niche, explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it, and supplies an unusually rich set of natural trigger phrases. The only weakness is that a few generic trigger terms create minor overlap risk with general executive-communication skills.

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Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete deliverables — 'incident communication, post-mortem narrative, audit-findings-for-stakeholders, risk justification, security spend justification, and customer-facing breach disclosure' — across eight named audiences, in third-person voice. Coverage of the security-comms domain is comprehensive with no notable gaps, matching the top anchor rather than the 'minor gaps' level below it.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both 'what' ('Translate technical security work into the language of non-security audiences — board, executives, engineering, customer success, customers, legal, procurement, sales') and 'when' ('Use when the user mentions... or has technical security work that needs to land with a non-security audience'), with concrete trigger phrases — the exact pattern of the score-5 anchor example.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Thirteen natural trigger phrases users would actually say, including verbatim ones like 'explain to my boss,' 'board update,' 'breach notification letter,' and 'why this matters to the business.' This matches the 'comprehensive coverage of natural terms including synonyms' anchor; no common variant is missing.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The security-comms niche is clear and most triggers are unambiguous ('security memo,' 'breach notification letter'), but several unqualified phrases ('executive summary,' 'board update,' 'explain to my boss,' 'stakeholder update') could also fire for a generic business-writing or memo skill — minor overlap risk with closely related skills rather than minimal.

4 / 5

Total

19

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20

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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills

Path

skills/security-comms/SKILL.md

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