packmind-standard-creator

Guide for creating coding standards via the Packmind CLI. This skill should be used when users want to create a new coding standard (or add rules to an existing standard) that captures team conventions, best practices, or coding guidelines for distribution to CoPilot.

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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 highly actionable and well-sequenced with explicit validation feedback loops, and its bundle scripts are properly referenced. Its main weakness is conciseness — conceptual preamble and repeated JSON templates pad the token budget without adding value Claude doesn't already have.

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Trim the 'About Coding Standards' and 'What Standards Provide' sections — Claude already knows what coding standards are; keep only the Packmind-specific structure and constraints.

Show the playbook JSON structure once and reference it from the Complete Example and Quick Reference instead of repeating the schema three times.

Move the full language-value list and the complete worked example into a reference file linked one level deep, leaving SKILL.md a lean overview of the creation process.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The core Steps 1–6 are efficient, but the 'About Coding Standards' / 'What Standards Provide' sections explain concepts Claude already knows and the JSON playbook structure is shown three times (Standard Structure, generated playbook, Complete Example) plus a duplicate Quick Reference table; not a 2 because the actionable bulk is genuinely useful, not a 4 because the padding is non-trivial.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides copy-paste-ready, executable commands ('python3 scripts/init_playbook.py ...', 'packmind-cli standard create <path>', 'python3 scripts/validate_playbook.py ...') and complete JSON examples covering common cases; fully executable with no gaps.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Steps 1–6 are clearly sequenced with an explicit validation checkpoint ('validate the playbook to catch errors early', 'If validation fails, fix the reported errors and run validation again before proceeding') and a verification step (Step 5), matching the validate→fix→retry anchor; not below 5 because the feedback loop is explicit.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into clear sections, and the only bundle files (scripts/init_playbook.py, scripts/validate_playbook.py) are referenced correctly and exist; not a 5 because the skill keeps everything inline with no one-level-deep reference files for the conceptual background and repeated templates, and not a 3 because structure and references are mostly clear.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 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 clearly states both what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete Packmind-specific triggers and good keyword coverage. It is held back only by minor coverage gaps and slight overlap risk from broad terminology.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain (Packmind CLI, coding standards) and several concrete actions — 'create a new coding standard', 'add rules to an existing standard', 'captures team conventions, best practices, or coding guidelines', 'distribution to CoPilot' — with only minor coverage gaps; not a 5 because no granular action list and some phrasing is general.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' ('Guide for creating coding standards via the Packmind CLI') and 'when' ('This skill should be used when users want to create a new coding standard (or add rules to an existing standard)') with concrete trigger phrases; not below 5 because both halves are present and specific.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural phrases users would say — 'create a new coding standard', 'add rules', 'team conventions', 'best practices', 'coding guidelines' — but misses common synonyms such as 'style guide', 'linting rules', or file/extension terms, so it stops short of comprehensive coverage.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The Packmind CLI and CoPilot distribution target carve a clear niche with minimal conflict, but broad terms like 'best practices' and 'coding guidelines' create minor overlap risk with general style/linting skills, so it is not a 5.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: cteyton/packmind
Path: .github/skills/packmind-standard-creator/SKILL.md
Commit: e198635

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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