Content
71%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured, actionable guide: the find → present → install workflow is sequenced clearly with real commands, sample output, and fallback handling, and the single bundled script it references actually exists. Its weakness is token efficiency — the duplicated trigger section, full response template, and categories table could be trimmed without losing guidance value.
Suggestions
Cut or drastically shorten the 'When to Use This Skill' section — it repeats the frontmatter description's trigger list verbatim in spirit and consumes context the model already has from frontmatter loading.
Replace the multi-line example response template with a one-line note of what to include (name, install command, skills.sh link) and trim the categories table to a single sentence of example query keywords.
Add a one-line post-install verification step (e.g., confirm the skill appears in `skills/custom/`) to close the workflow's only validation gap.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient — commands are shown tersely and there is no concept-explanation filler — but it could be tightened: the 'When to Use This Skill' section largely duplicates the frontmatter description's trigger list, and the full example-response template and the seven-row categories table pad the token budget. Fits 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened' rather than 4, where only minor trims would be needed. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Gives concrete, executable commands (`npx skills find [query]`, `bash /path/to/skill/scripts/install-skill.sh vercel-labs/agent-skills@vercel-react-best-practices`) with realistic sample output and a concrete no-results fallback (`npx skills init`). Held below 5 because the install commands embed a literal `/path/to/skill/` placeholder that is not copy-paste ready as written — a minor gap, matching the 'mostly executable guidance' anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear four-step sequence (understand the need → search → present options → install) plus an explicit no-results fallback path with an example. Missing a post-install verification checkpoint (e.g., confirming the skill landed in skills/custom/ and is linked), which matches 'clear sequence with most checkpoints present; minor validation gaps'. Install is not a destructive or batch operation, so the workflow-clarity cap does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A single well-sectioned SKILL.md with clear headers and one referenced bundle artifact (`scripts/install-skill.sh`), which exists in the bundle one level deep. No content here warrants splitting into separate reference files, and navigation is trivial — matching the top anchor for a self-contained, well-organized skill. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |