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Read, extract, and cross-check content across scientific PDFs. Use when a task needs methods, figures, tables, citations, accessions, or claims from multiple places in one or more papers.

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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.

A concise, well-organized workflow for multi-section scientific PDF extraction with a useful cross-check checkpoint and a closing guardrail. The only gaps are the absence of an explicit validation feedback loop and concrete artifact-format guidance.

Suggestions

Add an explicit validation feedback loop, e.g. 'If a claim cannot be tied to a specific page/region, do not state it — re-scan methods and supplements until provenance is found.'

Specify the artifact format for step 5 (e.g., 'Save notes as a markdown file with per-claim page citations') so the save step is fully actionable.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean, assumes Claude knows what a PDF is, and every line (intro trigger, five numbered steps, closing guardrail) earns its place with no padding, matching the lean/efficient anchor.

5 / 5

Actionability

Steps name concrete mechanisms such as 'Feynman's PDF preview annotations for page/line/rectangle anchors' and tie values to page numbers, but as instruction-only guidance it lacks fully concrete artifact formats/commands, leaving minor gaps versus the top anchor.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The five-step sequence is clear and step 4 ('Cross-check claims against methods, captions, supplement text...') acts as a verification checkpoint, but there is no explicit validate-fix-retry feedback loop, so it falls just short of the top anchor.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

This is a single-purpose skill well under 50 lines with no external references needed (no bundle files present), and the workflow is cleanly organized, so the simple-skill exception lets it score at the top anchor.

5 / 5

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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.

A strong, third-person description that clearly states capabilities and concrete use-when triggers for a well-scoped scientific-PDF niche. It loses a point only on action breadth and a few missing trigger synonyms.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The phrase 'Read, extract, and cross-check content across scientific PDFs' names three concrete actions, fitting the 'several specific actions; minor gaps' anchor; it is not a 5 because coverage is not comprehensive (e.g., no mention of saving/exporting artifacts).

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both 'what' ('Read, extract, and cross-check content across scientific PDFs') and 'when' ('Use when a task needs ... from multiple places in one or more papers') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'methods, figures, tables, citations, accessions, or claims' plus 'scientific PDFs' and 'papers' give good natural keyword coverage, but a few common variants are missing (no '.pdf' extension, no 'full text' or 'abstract').

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'scientific PDFs' niche with multi-section triggers (methods, figures, supplements, citations) carves a clear, distinct scope with minimal overlap risk against generic PDF skills.

5 / 5

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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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

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