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.

Quality

75%

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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 body is a well-structured, actionable skill-creation guide with concrete script invocations and a validation feedback loop. Its main limitation is moderate verbosity in the conceptual 'About Skills' framing that assumes less of Claude's existing knowledge than necessary.

Suggestions

Trim the 'About Skills' introduction to remove conceptual framing Claude already knows (e.g., what skills are, the 'onboarding guides' analogy), keeping only non-obvious procedural guidance.

Add explicit validation/checkpoint notes to intermediate steps (e.g., Step 4) rather than only at packaging, to strengthen the feedback-loop coverage across the workflow.

Consider moving the detailed resource-type guidance (scripts/references/assets sections) into a references file, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview that points one level deep.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient, but the 'About Skills' intro pads with conceptual framing Claude already knows ('they transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess'), matching score-3 rather than 4 which requires only minor trimmable instances.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete executable commands referencing real bundled scripts ('scripts/init_skill.py <skill-name> --path <output-directory>', 'scripts/package_skill.py <path/to/skill-folder>'); not a 5 because several steps (Understanding, Planning) remain guidance-oriented without copy-paste-ready artifacts.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clearly sequenced 6-step process with an explicit validation feedback loop in packaging ('If validation fails... fix any validation errors and run again'); not a 5 because intermediate steps lack explicit checkpoints/checklists.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-sectioned body that signals one-level-deep bundled scripts by path (init_skill.py, package_skill.py, both verified present); not a 5 because no references/ files are bundled and the conceptual intro could be further separated from the actionable process.	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 third-person, clearly states both purpose and trigger conditions, and is reasonably specific to skill creation. Main weakness is limited breadth of concrete actions listed, keeping specificity at the midpoint.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	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 set of specific capabilities, matching the score-3 anchor rather than 4 which requires several specific actions.	3 / 5
Completeness	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 concrete trigger phrases, matching the score-5 anchor.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural phrases a user would actually say ('create a new skill', 'update an existing skill'), giving good keyword coverage; not a 5 because it lacks broader synonyms or variations beyond 'skill' creation/updating.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (skill authoring/meta-tooling) with distinct triggers ('create a new skill', 'update an existing skill') and minimal overlap risk with other skills, matching the score-5 anchor.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 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/skill-creator/SKILL.md
Commit: e198635

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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