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grill-with-docs

A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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

The body is maximally token-efficient but delegates everything to two external skills with no guidance on how the grilling session and domain-modeling skill combine, or how/when the promised ADRs and glossary entries get written. A few more lines defining the session flow and doc-creation checkpoints would substantially raise actionability and workflow clarity without sacrificing conciseness.

Suggestions

Add a short sequenced outline of the session — e.g., how the /grilling questions interleave with /domain-modeling, and the point at which an ADR or glossary entry gets written and where it is saved.

Include a minimal validation checkpoint (e.g., 'after each major decision, confirm it with the user before recording an ADR') so the doc-creating half of the workflow has a feedback loop.

Add even minimal section headers (e.g., '## Session flow' and '## Doc outputs') so the one-line body has structure and the promised outputs are discoverable within the skill.

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Conciseness

The body is a single nine-word sentence — 'Run a `/grilling` session, using the `/domain-modeling` skill.' — with zero padding and full assumption of Claude's competence, matching the 'lean and efficient; every token earns its place' anchor.

5 / 5

Actionability

It names two concrete skills to invoke, but gives no guidance on how they combine, how the interview proceeds, or how the promised ADRs and glossary are produced, formatted, or saved — matching 'minimal concrete guidance; high-level hints but missing the specific steps to execute'. It is above 1 because the directive does name specific, invocable skills rather than being purely abstract.

2 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The single directive is unambiguous, but the skill's described behavior — an interview that creates docs 'as we go' — is a multi-step process (ask, capture decisions, write ADR/glossary entries) with no sequencing or checkpoints anywhere in the body. This fits 'steps listed but validation gaps; sequence present but checkpoints missing' rather than 4, since the doc-creation half of the workflow has no sequence at all.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Delegation to two clearly-signaled, one-level-deep skills is good disclosure practice, but the body has no sections or organization, and the doc-creation guidance the description promises has no home in the bundle (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ files exist). This lands between 'minimal structure' (2) and 'good structure' (4).

3 / 5

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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 is concise and specific about what the skill does, naming concrete deliverables (ADR's, glossary) and a distinctive modality ('relentless interview'). Its main weakness is the complete absence of 'when to use' trigger guidance, which caps completeness and leaves natural trigger phrases underserved.

Suggestions

Add a 'Use when...' clause with concrete trigger phrases (e.g., 'Use when the user wants to pressure-test, refine, or stress-test a plan or design, or wants ADRs and a glossary produced during planning').

Include common synonyms users would actually say — 'refine', 'pressure-test', 'stress-test', 'critique', 'poke holes in' — alongside 'interview' and 'sharpen'.

Briefly note where the created docs (ADR's, glossary) land, so the 'what' is complete enough to distinguish this from a pure critique/review skill.

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Specificity

The description names several concrete actions and specific deliverables — 'a relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design' and 'creates docs (ADR's and glossary)' — matching the 'several specific actions; minor gaps' anchor. It falls short of 5 because it doesn't comprehensively cover what the session actually involves, and above 3 because it goes beyond naming just 1-2 actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clearly stated (interview to sharpen a plan/design, producing ADRs and a glossary), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, which per the judging guidelines caps completeness at 3. It is not a 4 because 'when' is entirely absent rather than merely weakly implied.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Relevant keywords are present ('interview', 'plan', 'design', 'ADR', 'glossary', 'docs') but common variations users would naturally say — 'refine', 'pressure-test', 'stress-test', 'critique my design', 'requirements' — are missing, matching the 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations or synonyms' anchor.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design' carves out a distinct niche (adversarial design interview plus doc generation) with only minor overlap risk against general planning or design-review skills. It is not a 5 because 'plan or design' is broad enough to brush against generic design-review skills.

4 / 5

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14

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20

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Validation

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

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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