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google-calendar-automation

Automate Google Calendar events, scheduling, availability checks, and attendee management via Rube MCP (Composio). Create events, find free slots, manage attendees, and list calendars programmatically.

71

1.59x
Quality

58%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

94%

1.59x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Discovery

67%

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 does a good job listing specific capabilities for Google Calendar automation and is clearly scoped to a distinct domain. However, it lacks an explicit 'Use when...' clause which would help Claude know exactly when to select this skill, and it could benefit from more natural user-facing trigger terms like 'meeting', 'book a time', or 'calendar invite'.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g., 'Use when the user asks about scheduling meetings, checking availability, creating calendar events, or managing Google Calendar.'

Include more natural user trigger terms such as 'meeting', 'book a time', 'calendar invite', 'schedule a call', 'when am I free' to improve matching against common user requests.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'Create events, find free slots, manage attendees, and list calendars programmatically.' Also mentions 'scheduling, availability checks, and attendee management.'

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers 'what does this do' with specific actions, but lacks an explicit 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance. The 'when' is only implied by the capabilities listed.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes good terms like 'Google Calendar', 'events', 'scheduling', 'availability', 'attendees', 'free slots', but misses common user phrasings like 'meeting', 'book a time', 'calendar invite', 'schedule a call'. The mention of 'Rube MCP (Composio)' is technical jargon unlikely to be used by users.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clearly scoped to Google Calendar specifically, with the additional qualifier of 'via Rube MCP (Composio)' making it very distinct. Unlikely to conflict with other skills unless there are multiple Google Calendar skills.

3 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Implementation

50%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a solid reference skill for Google Calendar automation via Rube MCP, with strong coverage of tool sequences, parameter constraints, and common pitfalls. Its main weaknesses are significant repetition of pitfall information across sections (hurting conciseness), lack of concrete executable examples showing complete tool invocations (hurting actionability), and absence of validation/error-handling steps in workflows. The structure is logical but the content would benefit from deduplication and at least one end-to-end example.

Suggestions

Add at least one complete, executable tool invocation example (e.g., a full GOOGLECALENDAR_CREATE_EVENT call with all required parameters filled in) to improve actionability from description-level to copy-paste-ready.

Consolidate pitfalls into the single 'Known Pitfalls' section and remove the per-workflow 'Pitfalls' subsections, or keep per-workflow pitfalls minimal with a cross-reference to the main list, to reduce repetition.

Add explicit validation steps to workflows—e.g., after creating an event, verify it exists with FIND_EVENT; before PATCH_EVENT attendees, retrieve current attendees list first to merge rather than replace.

Consider extracting the Quick Reference table and detailed parameter documentation into a separate REFERENCE.md file to improve progressive disclosure and keep the main skill focused on workflows.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is mostly efficient and provides useful, non-obvious information (pitfalls, parameter constraints, timezone gotchas). However, there is significant repetition—the same pitfalls (IANA timezones, ISO 8601 dates, duration limits, attendees as emails) are repeated across individual workflow sections, the 'Common Patterns' section, AND the 'Known Pitfalls' summary. The quick reference table also partially duplicates the workflow sections. This redundancy inflates token count without adding value.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides concrete tool names, specific parameter names, and clear format requirements (ISO 8601, IANA timezones), which is valuable. However, it lacks any executable examples—no actual tool invocation examples showing complete parameter sets. The guidance is specific but remains at the 'description of what to do' level rather than 'copy-paste ready' invocations. For an MCP tool-based skill, showing at least one complete tool call example would significantly improve actionability.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The workflows are clearly sequenced with labeled steps (Prerequisite, Required, Optional, Alternative), which is helpful. However, there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops—no guidance on what to do if an event creation fails, if a search returns no results, or how to verify that an event was successfully created. For operations like attendee management (where PATCH replaces the entire list), a validate-then-act pattern would be important.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is well-structured with clear sections and a useful quick reference table. However, with no bundle files, all content is inline in a single long document (~180 lines of substantive content). The repeated pitfalls across sections suggest the content could benefit from being split—e.g., a separate pitfalls/reference file. The external link to Composio docs is helpful but the skill itself is somewhat monolithic.

2 / 3

Total

8

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12

Passed

Validation

90%

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

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

10

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11

Passed

Repository
davepoon/buildwithclaude
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