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 Claude.

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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 with a well-sequenced, validation-backed workflow and properly referenced script bundle files. Its main weakness is conciseness: it explains background concepts Claude already knows and repeats the playbook JSON structure.

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Remove or drastically trim the 'About Coding Standards' and 'What Standards Provide' sections, which restate concepts Claude already knows.

Show the playbook JSON structure only once (Step 3) and reference it from the earlier 'Standard Structure' section to eliminate duplication.

Move the large 'Complete Example' into a separate reference file (e.g. references/example.playbook.json) and link to it, improving progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The 'About Coding Standards' and 'What Standards Provide' sections explain concepts Claude already knows, and the JSON playbook structure is shown twice (Standard Structure and Step 3), making this more than minor over-explanation.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands (init_playbook.py, validate_playbook.py, packmind-cli standard create) plus complete JSON templates and troubleshooting, covering the common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear six-step sequence includes an explicit validation checkpoint with a fix-and-retry feedback loop ('If validation fails, fix the reported errors and run validation again before proceeding') and a verification step.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Clear section structure with real, correctly referenced script bundle files (scripts/init_playbook.py, scripts/validate_playbook.py); bulk content such as the complete example and 'About' section is inlined rather than split into separate reference docs, a minor organization gap.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Description

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The description is strong: it clearly states what the skill does, when to use it with explicit trigger phrasing, and occupies a distinct niche via the Packmind CLI framing. Minor gaps in concrete-action specificity and natural-term coverage keep specificity and trigger quality at 4 rather than 5.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several concrete actions ('create a new coding standard', 'add rules to an existing standard') but the 'captures team conventions, best practices, or coding guidelines' clause is somewhat abstract rather than a discrete action, leaving minor gaps versus a full 5.	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.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural trigger phrases are present ('create a new coding standard', 'add rules', 'team conventions', 'best practices', 'coding guidelines', 'Packmind CLI'), but common synonyms/extensions like 'playbook' or '.playbook.json' are missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Tied to a clear niche ('Packmind CLI', 'coding standard') with distinct triggers and minimal risk of overlapping with unrelated skills.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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