director-readiness-advisor

Guide the PM-to-Director transition across preparing, interviewing, landing, and recalibrating. Use when leadership scope is changing and you need practical coaching.

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Quality

Content

71%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The content is a well-structured, highly actionable interactive coaching skill with a clear branched workflow and concrete example outputs. Its main weaknesses are some duplication and repeated scaffolding affecting conciseness, and progressive disclosure is hurt by references pointing to non-existent bundle files and lengthy inline worked examples that could be split out.

Suggestions

Remove the near-verbatim duplication between the frontmatter 'intent' and the Purpose section, or repurpose Purpose to add only new information.

Create the referenced examples/conversation-flow.md file (or drop the reference) so the bundle matches what the body points to, and consider moving the four full worked-example recommendation blocks into per-branch reference files to slim the main SKILL.md.

Tighten the repeated question-scaffolding across the four branches (e.g., factor the shared 'Or describe your situation directly' / 'Choose a number to go deeper' framing) to reduce token cost.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is substantive coaching content that mostly earns its tokens, but the Purpose section duplicates the frontmatter intent nearly verbatim and the four branches repeat scaffolding patterns; it could be tightened, fitting 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened' — not 4 due to the duplicated intent and repeated structure.	3 / 5
Actionability	As an instruction-only interactive skill it provides concrete question scripts, numbered response options, and full worked example recommendation outputs that are copy-ready and cover the common cases, matching the 'fully executable; specific examples cover the common cases' anchor.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The flow is clearly sequenced (Step 0 → Q1 → branch Q2/Q3 → recommendations) with progress labels and explicit branching, fitting 'clear sequence with most checkpoints present'; not 5 because there are no explicit feedback/validation loops, though the coaching Q&A nature does not strictly require them.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	References are signaled (examples/conversation-flow.md, altitude-horizon-framework, workshop-facilitation) but none of the referenced files exist in the bundle, and the full inlined worked-example recommendation scripts for all four branches are lengthy content that could live in separate files, fitting 'some structure but could be better organized; references present but not clearly signaled; content that should be separate is inline'.	3 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

87%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 specifies a clear niche, enumerates the four transition phases, and provides an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause answering both what and when. It falls just short of maximum specificity and trigger coverage only because the phase list is somewhat abstract and omits common synonyms like 'promotion' or 'first 90 days'.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the PM-to-Director domain and enumerates four concrete transition phases (preparing, interviewing, landing, recalibrating) rather than generic actions, fitting 'lists several specific actions; minor gaps' — not 5 because the phases are somewhat abstract capabilities rather than multiple distinct concrete actions.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Guide the PM-to-Director transition across...') and when ('Use when leadership scope is changing and you need practical coaching') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the anchor for clearly and explicitly answering both.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural terms a user would say ('PM-to-Director transition', 'leadership scope is changing', 'practical coaching') with good coverage, but misses common synonyms like 'promotion', 'new Director role', or 'first 90 days', fitting 'good keyword coverage; a few natural terms missing'.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	'PM-to-Director transition' is a narrow, well-defined niche with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk with unrelated skills, matching the 'clear niche with distinct triggers; minimal conflict risk' anchor.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

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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 — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning
relative_links	Relative link issues: 1 suspicious	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Path: skills/director-readiness-advisor/SKILL.md
Commit: a03af68

Reviewed: 20 days ago

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