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to-issues

Break a plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable issues on the project issue tracker using tracer-bullet vertical slices.

70

0.95x
Quality

81%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

80%

0.95x

1 of 3 eval scenarios. Add 2 more for a full score.

SecuritybySnyk

Low

Low-risk findings worth noting

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 an exemplary instruction-only skill: lean, concretely templated, and sequenced with a genuine user-approval feedback loop before batch publication. The only minor gap is that issue-tracker interaction mechanics rely on an external setup skill. No substantive changes needed.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The ~78-line body is lean and operational: no explanations of concepts Claude already knows, no padded sections, and every rule, template, or question earns its place. The one-line Kent Beck quote is the only flourish and it conveys the prefactoring intent.

5 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, executable guidance throughout: a copy-paste issue template, per-slice presentation fields (Title / Blocked by / User stories covered), explicit quiz questions, and 'publish issues in dependency order'. The minor gap is that fetching/publishing mechanics are delegated to an externally-provided tracker setup without pointer details in this file.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Five clearly numbered steps with an explicit validation checkpoint and feedback loop: 'Quiz the user... Iterate until the user approves the breakdown' gates the batch publish, plus a safety guard ('Do NOT close or modify any parent issue') and dependency-order publishing so blockers get real identifiers.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Single-file skill with no bundle directories (references/, scripts/, assets/ absent — verified); sections are well-organized with templates inlined where they belong, and the one external pointer ('/setup-matt-pocock-skills') is clearly signaled. Per the rubric's simple-skill note, well-organized sections suffice for a 5.

5 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Description

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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 communicates a clear, reasonably specific capability but omits any 'when to use this' trigger guidance, which both caps completeness and weakens its discoverability. Distinctiveness and keyword coverage are decent. Adding an explicit usage-trigger clause would resolve the main weakness.

Suggestions

Append an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when the user asks to break down a plan, spec, PRD, or feature list into issues/tickets, or to prepare work for AFK agents on the issue tracker.'

Add natural synonyms users might say — 'tickets', 'user stories', 'backlog', 'GitHub issues/Jira' — to broaden trigger term coverage.

Mention the full action set (draft slices, quiz the user, publish labeled issues) to lift specificity beyond a single decomposition action.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (plan, spec, PRD, issue tracker) and one concrete action ('break... into independently-grabbable issues') with the tracer-bullet vertical-slice method, but coverage is not comprehensive — a single decomposition action is described.

3 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear (break a plan into independently-grabbable issues), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the rubric guidelines.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'plan, spec, or PRD', 'issues', 'issue tracker' are natural phrases users would say; common synonyms like 'tickets', 'user stories', 'backlog', or named trackers (Jira, GitHub Issues) are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The planning-to-issues decomposition niche is fairly distinct with specific vocabulary (tracer-bullet, vertical slices), with only minor overlap risk against general planning or task-breakdown skills.

4 / 5

Total

14

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository

coder/agent-tty

Path

.agents/skills/to-issues/SKILL.md

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