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workflow-skill-designer

Meta-skill for designing orchestrator+phases structured workflow skills. Creates SKILL.md coordinator with progressive phase loading, TodoWrite patterns, and data flow. Triggers on "design workflow skill", "create workflow skill", "workflow skill designer".

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

47%

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

This is a comprehensive meta-skill with strong workflow architecture and clear phase sequencing, but it severely violates conciseness principles. The document is bloated with redundant explanations (especially the bilingual compact recovery section), verbose pattern descriptions, and inline content that should be delegated to reference files. The actionability is moderate — templates and patterns are concrete but not truly executable, and the referenced phase files are not provided.

Suggestions

Reduce the document by 50-60%: move Pattern 6-9 detailed explanations into a separate patterns-reference.md file, keeping only 1-2 line summaries with references in SKILL.md

Choose one language (English or Chinese) consistently — the bilingual content in Pattern 9 and the Phase Reference table doubles token cost without adding value

Move the SKILL.md Template and Phase File Template sections into a templates/ directory file, referencing them from SKILL.md with a single link

Make code examples truly executable or remove them — the AskUserQuestion JavaScript snippets and TodoWrite pseudo-APIs are illustrative but not copy-paste ready

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Conciseness

Extremely verbose at ~400+ lines. Contains extensive explanations of patterns Claude could infer, redundant tables mapping the same concepts multiple ways, bilingual (English/Chinese) content that doubles token cost, and lengthy template sections. The compact recovery pattern alone spans ~100 lines with multiple redundant explanations of the same double-insurance concept.

1 / 3

Actionability

Provides concrete templates, pattern examples with code snippets, and structured tables showing what goes where. However, much of the code is pseudocode/illustrative rather than truly executable (e.g., the JavaScript-like AskUserQuestion examples aren't real API calls), and the actual phase files (01-04) that contain the real execution logic are referenced but not provided.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 4-phase execution flow is clearly sequenced with explicit inputs/outputs per phase, a Phase Reference Documents table, and validation as a dedicated Phase 4. The TodoWrite attachment/collapse lifecycle provides clear state management, and the checkpoint/sentinel patterns provide explicit validation and recovery mechanisms throughout.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill correctly references 4 phase files via a Phase Reference Documents table with on-demand loading, which is good structure. However, the SKILL.md itself is monolithic — it inlines enormous amounts of detail (9 patterns with full examples, complete templates, conversion rules, mapping tables) that should be in separate reference files. The body contains far too much content that belongs in phase or reference documents.

2 / 3

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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.

This is a strong description that clearly communicates a specific, niche capability — designing structured workflow skills with orchestrator and phase patterns. It provides explicit trigger terms and concrete actions, making it easy for Claude to distinguish from other skills. The description is concise yet comprehensive, covering both what the skill does and when to use it.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'designing orchestrator+phases structured workflow skills', 'Creates SKILL.md coordinator with progressive phase loading, TodoWrite patterns, and data flow'. These are concrete, specific capabilities.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (meta-skill for designing orchestrator+phases structured workflow skills, creates SKILL.md coordinator with progressive phase loading, TodoWrite patterns, and data flow) and 'when' (explicit triggers: 'design workflow skill', 'create workflow skill', 'workflow skill designer').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes explicit trigger terms that users would naturally say: 'design workflow skill', 'create workflow skill', 'workflow skill designer'. Also includes domain-specific terms like 'orchestrator', 'phases', 'TodoWrite patterns' that help with precise matching.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive niche — a meta-skill specifically for designing workflow skills with orchestrator+phases patterns. The trigger terms are very specific ('workflow skill designer') and unlikely to conflict with general coding or document skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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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

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Total

10

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11

Passed

Repository
catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow
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