finance-metrics-quickref

Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast. Use when you need a quick metric definition, formula, or benchmark during analysis.

Quality

88%

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Content

77%

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

The body is highly actionable with concrete formulas, benchmarks, and staged decision frameworks, and its workflows are clearly sequenced. Its main weakness is conciseness and progressive disclosure: substantial redundancy between sections and a monolithic single-file structure that could offload detail to reference files.

Suggestions

Deduplicate red flags: the 'Red Flags by Category' tables repeat the main metrics table's Red Flag column — keep one authoritative source and cross-reference it.

Consolidate 'When to Use Which Metric' with 'When to Use This Skill' to remove overlapping guidance about metric selection.

Move the full metrics reference table into a references/ file (e.g. metrics-table.md) and keep SKILL.md as a lean overview pointing to it, improving progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The reference is dense and mostly assumes Claude's intelligence, but the ~300-line body carries notable duplication: the "Red Flags by Category" section restates red flags already present in the main table's Red Flag column, and "When to Use Which Metric" overlaps the table and "When to Use This Skill" section, so it could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Concrete formulas, specific numeric benchmark thresholds, and decision frameworks with explicit rules ("Build if: ROI >3x in year one", "Scale if: LTV:CAC >3:1 AND Payback <18 months") provide fully actionable, copy-ready guidance, matching the anchor for concrete executable guidance.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The four decision frameworks are clearly sequenced as Ask / Build-or-scale-if / Don't-if / Metrics-to-check, and the health check is staged (Early / Growth / Scale) with explicit thresholds; the single-action lookup is unambiguous, matching the simple-skill allowance for a 3.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body is a single ~300-line monolithic reference with all metrics, frameworks, and red flags inline; it is well-sectioned but the content is not split into reference files, matching the anchor for structure present but content that should be separate is inline. No bundle files exist to offload detail.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

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.

The description is concise, concrete, and hits both the what and the when with explicit "Use when" trigger guidance and natural SaaS-finance keywords. It is distinctive and unlikely to conflict with other skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast" names the domain and lists multiple concrete actions (metric definitions, formulas, benchmarks) in third person, matching the anchor for listing multiple specific concrete actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	It explicitly answers both what ("Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast") and when ("Use when you need a quick metric definition, formula, or benchmark during analysis"), matching the anchor for clearly answering both what AND when with explicit triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"metric definition, formula, or benchmark" alongside "SaaS finance metrics" gives good coverage of the natural terms a user would actually say when needing this skill, matching the anchor for good coverage of natural terms.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	"SaaS finance metrics" carves out a clear niche with distinct finance-specific triggers that are unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the anchor for a clear niche with distinct triggers.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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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 — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Path: skills/finance-metrics-quickref/SKILL.md
Commit: 9971018

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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