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file-edit-in-place

Use when the user names a local file and explicitly asks to clean, rewrite, humanize, or remove AI-writing patterns in that file itself, with minimal targeted edits and post-edit verification.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

81%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.

A well-structured, actionable instruction-only skill with clear sequenced workflows and a genuine validation feedback loop for its destructive file-mutation task. Minor conciseness and progressive-disclosure refinements would lift it further.

Suggestions

De-duplicate the 'read before writing' guidance that appears in both the senior-developer lens and Preconditions to tighten conciseness.

Add a short note confirming which referenced sibling-skill files are authoritative vs. optional, so navigation of the external references is unambiguous.

Consider pulling the connection-contract detail into a references/ file to keep SKILL.md as a leaner overview pointing one level deep.

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Conciseness

Lean, bullet-driven body with no concept padding, but 'read before writing' is restated across the implementation lens and preconditions, so a few tokens could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete numbered editing policy (11 steps) and repair path (6 steps) with specific actionable directives like setting execution_evidence.mutation only after a real write succeeds; instruction-only so absence of code is not penalized.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Sequenced editing and repair workflows with explicit validation ('Re-read the modified region after editing') and a verify→repair→re-verify feedback loop; the destructive operation has validation so it escapes the cap at 3.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-sectioned body with one-level-deep, clearly signaled references to sibling-skill files (handoff-contract.md, skill-graph.json, agency-role-lenses.md); no bundle files exist within this skill to verify, and refs are external rather than in-references/, a minor organization gap.

4 / 5

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Description

95%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.

A strong description: explicit trigger guidance, multiple concrete action verbs, and clear scope boundaries that distinguish it from related skills. The only minor weakness is that the listed actions are facets of a single edit operation rather than distinct capabilities.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete mutation actions ('clean, rewrite, humanize, or remove AI-writing patterns') plus 'minimal targeted edits' and 'post-edit verification', but these are near-synonyms of one edit operation rather than genuinely distinct capabilities, so just below the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (clean/rewrite/humanize/remove AI-writing patterns with targeted edits and verification) and 'when' via an explicit 'Use when the user names a local file and explicitly asks...' clause.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural-term coverage with synonyms users actually say ('clean', 'rewrite', 'humanize', 'remove AI-writing patterns') plus an explicit trigger condition ('user names a local file and explicitly asks').

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The qualifiers 'in that file itself' and 'explicitly asks' carve a clear in-place-mutation niche distinct from returned-text rewriting, minimizing conflict with sibling skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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