docs-canvas
Render a documentation-style Cursor Canvas that organizes architecture notes, API references, walkthroughs, and how-tos into a navigable layout with sections, tables of contents, and cross-references. Use when the user asks for a docs canvas, documentation overview, architecture walkthrough, API reference page, or wants to render structured documentation as an interactive canvas.
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Discovery
100%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a strong skill description that clearly articulates specific capabilities (organizing architecture notes, API references, walkthroughs into navigable layouts), provides explicit trigger guidance via a 'Use when...' clause with natural user terms, and occupies a distinct niche combining documentation content with the Cursor Canvas format. It uses proper third-person voice throughout and is concise without being vague.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: organizing architecture notes, API references, walkthroughs, and how-tos into a navigable layout with sections, tables of contents, and cross-references. These are concrete, well-defined capabilities. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (render documentation-style Cursor Canvas with architecture notes, API references, walkthroughs, how-tos, TOC, cross-references) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when...' clause listing specific trigger scenarios). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes strong natural trigger terms users would say: 'docs canvas', 'documentation overview', 'architecture walkthrough', 'API reference page', 'structured documentation', 'interactive canvas'. Good coverage of variations a user might naturally use. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly distinctive with a clear niche: documentation-style Cursor Canvas. The combination of 'Cursor Canvas' format with documentation-specific content types (architecture notes, API references) creates a well-defined scope unlikely to conflict with generic documentation or generic canvas skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
35%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill is explicitly a placeholder/stub and reads as such. While it establishes a reasonable conceptual framework for a docs canvas (layout planning, component selection, tone guidance), it lacks any concrete, executable guidance — no code examples, no specific component APIs, no worked examples. The honest placeholder disclaimer is appreciated but the content as-is provides little actionable value to Claude.
Suggestions
Add at least one complete, executable code example showing a minimal docs canvas with a table of contents and one body section using the actual canvas SDK components.
Replace abstract guidance like 'Use cards/sections to group related content' with specific component usage: show the exact imports, props, and JSX/TSX patterns from the SDK.
Add a validation step or self-check checklist (e.g., 'Verify TOC links resolve to actual section IDs, confirm code blocks have language annotations') to improve workflow clarity.
Include a concrete worked example — e.g., 'Given this API module, here is the complete canvas output' — to make the skill actionable rather than aspirational.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is moderately efficient but includes some unnecessary prose (e.g., 'Build a canvas that presents documentation... as an interactive, navigable surface rather than as a flat markdown file' is descriptive rather than instructive). The placeholder status notice is honest but the overall content could be tighter given it's mostly high-level guidance. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill explicitly states it is a placeholder with a 'starting outline.' There are no concrete code examples, no executable commands, no specific component usage patterns, and no copy-paste ready snippets. The guidance is entirely abstract and descriptive — 'Use cards/sections,' 'Use code blocks,' 'Use diagrams' without showing how. | 1 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | There is a discernible sequence (gather material → plan layout → render → tone/content), but steps lack specificity, have no validation checkpoints, and no feedback loops. The workflow is more of a conceptual outline than an actionable process. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill references external files (SKILL.md, sdk/index.d.ts) appropriately and keeps the overview concise. However, no bundle files are provided to support these references, and the skill itself doesn't clearly signal what additional detail lives where beyond the two prerequisite references. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 7 / 12 Passed |
Validation
100%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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- Repository
- cursor/plugins
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