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ce-brainstorm

Explore vague or ambitious ideas into a right-sized requirements-only unified plan. Use when the user wants to brainstorm or scope what to build. Not for executing already-specified work. Use ce-pov for a verdict on adopting a named external technology.

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Quality

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The canonical home for this skill is ce-brainstorm in EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin

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Quality

Content

85%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.

An exemplary orchestration skill: a compact overview that routes each phase to a specific reference file, with explicit validation gates and routing rules. The only weaknesses are occasional convoluted sentence construction and small actionability details deferred to references.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense and almost entirely skill-specific machinery with no padding of concepts Claude already knows, but a few run-on legalistic sentences (e.g., the "Done, on the brainstorm path" clause chain) could be tightened, matching anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, executable guidance throughout — exact paths ("<root>/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-<type>-<topic>-plan.<md|html>"), commands ("git rev-parse --show-toplevel"), and explicit frontmatter keys — with minor gaps left to the reference files, matching anchor 4.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A phase-ordered table specifies what to read at each step, and there is an explicit validation checkpoint ("do not declare it written or enter Phase 4 while any check fails" in the Ready for Planning Check) with a blocking feedback loop, matching anchor 5.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a lean overview with a table of clearly signaled, one-level-deep references (all verified to exist in references/), with the bulk detail correctly split into per-phase files, matching anchor 5.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Description

82%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 with explicit what/when triggers and unusually good boundary routing to sibling skills. The main weakness is jargon-heavy capability phrasing that under-specifies the concrete actions the skill performs.

Suggestions

Replace jargon like "right-sized requirements-only unified plan" with plainer capability statements (e.g., "turn a rough feature idea into a written requirements plan with goals, scope boundaries, and success criteria").

Add one or two concrete actions users would recognize (e.g., "asks clarifying questions through dialogue and records settled decisions") to lift specificity.

Include a couple of common trigger synonyms such as "explore an idea" or "figure out what to build" alongside "brainstorm or scope".

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the domain and one core action ("Explore vague or ambitious ideas into a right-sized requirements-only unified plan"), but "right-sized" and "unified plan" are internal jargon and it does not list several concrete actions, matching anchor 3 rather than 4.

3 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers what ("Explore vague or ambitious ideas into a right-sized requirements-only unified plan") and when ("Use when the user wants to brainstorm or scope what to build") with concrete trigger phrases, exactly matching the anchor-5 example.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"brainstorm", "scope what to build", "requirements", and "plan" are natural user phrases with good coverage, but common variations like "explore an idea" or "requirements gathering" are absent, placing it between anchors 4 and 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Explicit boundaries — "Not for executing already-specified work" and routing "a verdict on adopting a named external technology" to ce-pov — give it a clear niche with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

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

Validation for skill structure

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
crdant/compound-engineering-plugin
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