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newsletter-generation

Use this skill when the user requests to generate, create, write, or draft a newsletter, email digest, weekly roundup, industry briefing, or curated content summary. Supports topic-based research, content curation from multiple sources, and professional formatting for email or web distribution. Trigger on requests like "create a newsletter about X", "write a weekly digest", "generate a tech roundup", or "curate news about Y".

72

Quality

88%

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

77%

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

A thorough, highly actionable newsletter-writing skill with a clear phased workflow and concrete templates, but it carries redundancy between its capability/use lists and the description and runs as a single ~340-line file that would benefit from progressive disclosure. Weakest on conciseness and progressive disclosure; strongest on actionability and workflow clarity.

Suggestions

Consolidate the 'Core Capabilities' and 'When to Use This Skill' lists, which overlap each other and the frontmatter description, to remove the lowest-value tokens.

Trim generic advice in the Notes section (e.g., 'quality beats quantity — 5 excellent items beat 15 mediocre ones', 'newsletters build trust through transparent sourcing') that does not add executable guidance.

Move the format-specific structures (Daily Digest / Weekly Roundup / Deep-Dive / Industry Briefing) and the full Output Template into a reference file such as templates.md, linked from the overview, to apply progressive disclosure and shorten the monolithic SKILL.md body.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient and free of basic-concept padding, but the 'Core Capabilities' and 'When to Use This Skill' lists duplicate the description and each other, and the Notes section carries generic filler ('quality beats quantity', 'newsletters build trust through transparent sourcing') that could be trimmed. Not a 3 because not every token earns its place.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready material — a full Output Template with placeholders, explicit search-query strings, per-section writing guidelines, and per-audience tone examples with sample sentences — fully actionable for an instruction-only skill.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced four-phase process (Planning, Research & Curation, Writing, Assembly & Polish) closes with an explicit Quality Checklist validation checkpoint; not capped at 2 since this is creative content generation, not a destructive/batch operation needing a fix-retry loop.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The ~340-line body is well-organized with clear headers (not a wall of text, so above 1), but it is monolithic with no external references, and format-specific structures plus the full Output Template are inline content that could be split into reference files — short of the 'well-signaled one-level-deep references; content appropriately split' bar for a 3.

2 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Description

100%

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 that explicitly states concrete capabilities, includes natural trigger phrasing with example user requests, and clearly separates what-it-does from when-to-use. Voice ('Use this skill when...') follows the same imperative pattern as the rubric's good examples, so no voice penalty applies.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names multiple concrete actions ('generate, create, write, or draft a newsletter, email digest, weekly roundup, industry briefing') plus 'topic-based research, content curation from multiple sources, and professional formatting', matching the 'lists multiple specific concrete actions' anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers what (research, curation, formatting) and when with an explicit 'Use this skill when the user requests...' clause plus concrete trigger examples, satisfying both halves of the anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Explicit trigger phrasing ('Trigger on requests like "create a newsletter about X", "write a weekly digest", "generate a tech roundup", or "curate news about Y"') plus natural terms (newsletter, email digest, weekly roundup, industry briefing) give good coverage of what users would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear newsletter/digest/briefing niche with distinct, specific triggers makes it unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the 'clear niche with distinct triggers' anchor.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

relative_links

Relative link issues: 7 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
bytedance/deer-flow
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