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loop-budget

Check token budget and run-log spend before and after a loop run. Enforces early exit when over budget or when there is no actionable work.

Quality

77%

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

86%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.

The body is an exemplary lean, single-purpose skill: concrete thresholds, named state files, and an exact log schema with no wasted tokens. The only improvements are minor — clarifying how tokens_estimate is derived and flattening the nested conditionals in step 5.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and efficient with zero padding: every line is an instruction, threshold, or template, and no concept Claude already knows is explained.

5 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is highly concrete — named files, explicit thresholds (80%/90%/100%), a specific field to sum (tokens_estimate), and a copy-paste JSON log template with enum values. Minor gaps remain: how tokens_estimate is computed and how "the active pattern" is identified from loop-budget.md.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The start-of-run sequence is clearly numbered with explicit conditional checkpoints at each spend threshold, plus a defined end-of-run step. It falls short of a 5 because there is no feedback/error-recovery loop and step 5's nested conditionals (yield vs. exit vs. pause flag) are dense enough to re-read.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is under 50 lines with well-organized sections (Start of run / End of run / Rules) and needs no external reference docs; the files it mentions (loop-budget.md, loop-run-log.md, STATE.md) are runtime state, not buried documentation.

5 / 5

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18

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20

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Description

58%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.

The description states concrete actions in a distinct niche but is missing explicit trigger guidance, capping its completeness and keyword coverage. Adding a "Use when..." clause with natural trigger phrases would resolve the main weaknesses.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when running a recurring loop, checking remaining token budget, or deciding whether to continue a loop run."

Include natural synonyms users might say, such as "token cap", "cost limit", or "spend limit", alongside "token budget".

Mention the run-log append behavior in the description so the write side of the skill (currently only implied by "before and after") is represented.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Check token budget and run-log spend" and "Enforces early exit" name several specific concrete actions, but coverage gaps (no mention of logging outcomes, throttling, or report-only mode) keep it below comprehensive.

4 / 5

Completeness

The "what" is clear (check budget and spend, enforce early exit), but "when to use it" is only weakly implied by "before and after a loop run" — there is no explicit "Use when..." clause, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Terms like "token budget", "run-log spend", "loop run", and "early exit" are relevant to the domain but lean technical, and natural synonyms users would say ("cost", "cap", "token limit", "spend limit") are missing.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The loop-budget guard niche is mostly distinct from other skills, with only minor overlap risk against generic cost/token-monitoring skills; no explicit distinct trigger phrases keep it from a 5.

4 / 5

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14

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20

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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

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Relative link issues: 1 suspicious

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Total

15

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16

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Repository

cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Path

skills/loop-budget/SKILL.md

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