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skill-simplify

SKILL.md simplification with functional integrity verification. Analyze redundancy, optimize content, check no functionality lost. Triggers on "simplify skill", "optimize skill", "skill-simplify".

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Quality

83%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

77%

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

This is a well-structured skill with efficient use of tokens, clear three-phase workflow with validation checkpoints, and good error handling. Its main weakness is that the core simplification logic is deferred to phase documents that aren't available for evaluation, and the actionability could be improved with a concrete before/after example. The progressive disclosure pattern is sound in design but unverifiable without bundle files.

Suggestions

Add a brief concrete before/after example showing a small skill snippet being simplified, to make the core rules more actionable

Provide the referenced phase documents (phases/01-analysis.md, etc.) as bundle files so the progressive disclosure structure can be fully validated

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The content is lean and efficient. It avoids explaining what simplification is or why it matters, jumping straight into the pipeline structure, rules, and error handling. Every section earns its place with no padding or unnecessary context.

3 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides concrete JavaScript snippets for input processing and TodoWrite patterns, and has specific rules and error handling tables. However, the actual simplification logic is deferred to phase documents that aren't provided, and the core rules, while specific, are instructional rather than fully executable — they describe what to do but lack complete worked examples showing before/after transformations.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The three-phase pipeline is clearly sequenced with explicit validation in Phase 3. The error handling table provides concrete feedback loops — Check FAIL triggers revert and reporting, Check WARN requires justification. The quantitative verification step (Phase 3 counts must match Phase 1 counts) serves as an explicit integrity checkpoint.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill references three phase documents via a clear table with one-level-deep links, which is good structure. However, since no bundle files are provided, we cannot verify these references exist or are accurate. The SKILL.md itself contains a reasonable amount of inline content, though the core rules section is somewhat dense and could potentially benefit from being split or better organized.

2 / 3

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12

Passed

Description

89%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a solid description that clearly identifies its niche (SKILL.md simplification), provides explicit trigger terms, and answers both what and when. The main weakness is that the capability descriptions could be more concrete—specifying exactly what 'optimize content' and 'functional integrity verification' entail would strengthen specificity. Overall, it performs well for skill selection purposes.

Suggestions

Make actions more concrete, e.g., 'Remove duplicate instructions, consolidate overlapping sections, eliminate verbose phrasing while preserving all documented behaviors and examples.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (SKILL.md simplification) and some actions (analyze redundancy, optimize content, check no functionality lost), but the actions are somewhat vague and not fully concrete—'optimize content' and 'check no functionality lost' lack specificity about how these are accomplished.

2 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (simplification with functional integrity verification, analyze redundancy, optimize content) and 'when' (explicit triggers: 'simplify skill', 'optimize skill', 'skill-simplify').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural trigger terms users would say: 'simplify skill', 'optimize skill', 'skill-simplify'. These are realistic phrases a user would type when wanting this functionality, and the domain context (SKILL.md) further narrows the trigger space.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Very specific niche—SKILL.md file simplification with integrity checks. The trigger terms are highly distinctive ('simplify skill', 'skill-simplify') and unlikely to conflict with other skills.

3 / 3

Total

11

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12

Passed

Validation

90%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

allowed_tools_field

'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)

Warning

Total

10

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11

Passed

Repository
catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow
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