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supervisor-api-background-mode

Enable Supervisor API background mode for long-running agent tasks. Use when: (1) Agent needs to run tasks longer than HTTP timeout limits, (2) User says 'background mode', 'long-running', 'supervisor api', (3) Converting from streaming to background polling pattern, (4) Agent needs resilience to connection drops during execution.

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The canonical home for this skill is supervisor-api-background-mode in databricks/app-templates

SKILL.md
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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, highly actionable technical skill with complete executable code and clear sequencing. The main weaknesses are inlined code that could be split into reference files and verbose logging that inflates length.

Suggestions

Move the large agent_server/utils.py and agent.py code modules into separate reference files (e.g., references/utils.py, references/agent.py) and link to them from the body to improve progressive disclosure.

Trim the verbose logger.info lines in the example code to reduce token cost while preserving the key control-flow comments.

Add an explicit end-of-workflow validation step (e.g., confirm the terminal status and expected output item count) to strengthen the workflow's feedback loop.

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Conciseness

Prose, the architecture diagram, and the comparison table are efficient with little over-explanation of known concepts, but heavy logging lines in the code blocks and slight redundancy between the table and prose could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Two complete, copy-paste-ready Python modules with full imports and a runnable curl-based testing section with expected log output provide fully executable guidance.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The prerequisites, numbered steps, gotchas, and testing section give a clear sequence with error-recovery checkpoints (retry on retrieve failure, break at incomplete items), though there is no explicit end-to-end validation checklist.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Content is well-organized with clear section headers, a diagram, and a comparison table, but the two large code modules are inlined rather than split into separate reference files (no bundle files exist).

4 / 5

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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 strong: it answers both what and when with explicit, concrete trigger conditions and natural keywords. Minor room for improvement in listing more distinct concrete actions and additional synonym coverage.

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Specificity

"Enable Supervisor API background mode for long-running agent tasks" names a concrete action and domain, and the four "Use when" clauses add specific scenarios, but there is effectively one core action rather than multiple distinct concrete actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

It clearly states what the skill does and provides an explicit "Use when:" clause with four concrete trigger conditions, matching the anchor for both what and when.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural trigger phrases like "background mode", "long-running", "supervisor api", "HTTP timeout limits", and "connection drops" give good keyword coverage, though a few synonyms/variations are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Supervisor API background mode" is a clear niche with distinct triggers (background mode, long-running, connection drops) that minimize conflict risk despite extending the base supervisor-api skill.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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SKILL.md is long (505 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

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