packmind-skill-creator

Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

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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 content is a well-structured, actionable meta-skill with a clear sequenced workflow, real bundle scripts, and an explicit validation feedback loop. Its main weaknesses are mild verbosity in the conceptual overview and prerequisites, and the absence of reference files to offload the explanatory bulk from SKILL.md.

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Trim the 'About Skills' overview and OS-by-OS prerequisite install instructions to the essentials Claude does not already know, tightening conciseness toward the top anchor.

Move the detailed skill-anatomy and bundled-resource guidance into a references/ file (e.g., references/skill_anatomy.md) and reference it from SKILL.md, practicing the progressive disclosure the skill itself advocates.

Add a brief concrete template or worked example to Step 4 ('Edit the Skill') so the editing guidance is executable rather than purely question-based, closing the actionability gap.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation Claude can infer (e.g., 'Skills are modular, self-contained packages... Think of them as onboarding guides') and verbose OS-by-OS prerequisite install instructions, matching the 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' anchor.	3 / 5
Actionability	It provides concrete, copy-paste-ready commands ('python3 scripts/init_skill.py', 'python3 scripts/quick_validate.py', 'packmind-cli skills add') backed by real bundle scripts, but Step 4 ('Edit the Skill') leans on abstract guiding questions rather than executable specifics, a minor gap.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clearly sequenced 7-step process with a dedicated validation step and an explicit validate->fix->retry feedback loop is present, but only Step 5 carries a real checkpoint while Steps 4 and 6 lack per-step checkpoints, fitting 'clear sequence with most checkpoints present; minor validation gaps'.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The body is well-organized with clear section headers and well-signaled one-level-deep references to real bundle files (scripts/init_skill.py, scripts/quick_validate.py), but the sizable conceptual 'About Skills' content is inlined rather than split into reference files, a minor organization gap.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 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 is clear, third-person, and explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete trigger phrasing. It is slightly light on enumerating multiple specific concrete actions and on natural-term synonyms, which keeps specificity and trigger coverage just below the top anchor.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description names the domain ('creating effective skills') and 1-2 concrete actions ('create a new skill (or update an existing skill)'), but does not enumerate a comprehensive list of specific actions, matching the anchor for naming domain plus a couple concrete actions.	3 / 5
Completeness	It explicitly answers both what ('Guide for creating effective skills') and when ('This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill)...') with a concrete trigger clause, matching the anchor that clearly and explicitly answers both.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural phrases a user would say are present ('create a new skill', 'update an existing skill', 'specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations'), giving good keyword coverage though a few natural synonyms like 'build a skill' are missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Skill authorship is a clear, distinct niche with trigger terms unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, though as a meta-skill it has minor conceptual overlap with any other skill-management tooling.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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 — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 12 missing	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: cteyton/packmind
Path: .claude/skills/packmind-skill-creator/SKILL.md
Commit: e198635

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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