Content
42%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The skill is well-organized and gives a clear picture of intended behavior through worked prompts and a mock output, but it spends most of its tokens on domain-naming truisms Claude already knows while never specifying how availability is actually checked. Splitting reference material into files and cutting the generic advice would make it both leaner and more actionable.
Suggestions
Cut or drastically trim sections that restate general knowledge — "What Makes a Good Domain", the TLD Guide, "Tips for Success", and "Pricing Context" — keeping only the skill-specific output format and decision rules.
Specify the executable mechanism for availability checks (e.g., an RDAP/whois command or lookup script with example invocations), since the skill's headline capability currently has no instructions for performing it.
Add validation checkpoints to the workflow (e.g., "re-verify availability immediately before recommending a domain as available") and move the long example output and TLD guide into reference files to shorten SKILL.md.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Large stretches restate knowledge Claude already has: "Short: Under 15 characters ideal", "Memorable: Easy to recall and spell", "No hyphens: Easier to share verbally", the TLD Guide (".com: Universal, trusted", ".io: Tech startups"), "Avoid Numbers: Hard to communicate verbally", and the Pricing Context section. Combined with a ~50-line mock output, this is noticeably verbose with several padded sections. Not a 1 because the prompt examples and output format do carry skill-specific signal. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | The usage prompts and the fully worked example output give concrete guidance on format and style, but the core capability — "Checks Availability: Verifies which domains are actually available" — has no executable mechanism anywhere (no RDAP/whois command, API call, or script). This is a key missing detail, matching anchor 3 rather than 4. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Sequences are present ("1. Describe your startup idea ... 4. Pick top 3 favorites 5. Register immediately"), but checkpoints are missing or implicit — there is no step to re-verify availability before presenting final picks and no error-recovery loop if a lookup fails. Not a 2 because the steps themselves are coherent and well-ordered. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is well-sectioned but monolithic at 213 lines with no bundle files at all; content that clearly belongs in separate references (the TLD Guide, naming-tips list, and the long example output) is inlined. This matches anchor 3 ("content that should be separate is inline") rather than 4, since no material is split out. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 11 / 20 Passed |