lifecycle-play-advisor

Diagnose where a product sits in its lifecycle and which play fits — extend, replace, or retire. Use when a product is fading and you need the call, not just the worry.

Quality

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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.

A well-structured, highly actionable interactive triage skill with verbatim prompts, decision tables, a structured output template, and explicit anti-pitfall guidance. It is dense and well-sequenced; the only soft spot is that the two full scripted example dialogues add length that slightly strains conciseness.

Suggestions

Tighten or condense one of the two full example dialogues (e.g., summarize Example A's Q-by-Q exchanges while keeping the punchline) to improve token efficiency without losing the pattern-recognition teaching value.

Consider moving the seven transition questions and the hazard list into a references/ file referenced from SKILL.md, so the body reads more as an overview pointing to detail and progressive_disclosure can reach 5.

Add an explicit short 'when NOT to run this' trigger boundary near the top (it is currently buried in Anti-Patterns) to sharpen distinctiveness at first glance.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is dense with practitioner-specific content (lifecycle stages, hazards, play discrimination) and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, though the two full multi-turn dialogue examples add length that could be trimmed.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides verbatim seven transition questions, a Yes-count scoring table, a pressure-source routing table, a four-question extension test, and a copy-paste-ready recommendation markdown template plus an exact next-step offer — fully executable facilitation guidance.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clear Q1→Q2→Q3→Q4→Recommend sequence with explicit checkpoints (say the count back, name the pattern, show your work) and feedback handling ('I don't know' becomes a labeled assumption); advisory rather than destructive, so no validation cap applies.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into clear sections (Purpose, Key Concepts, Application, Examples, Pitfalls, References) with clearly signaled one-level-deep routing links to sibling skills; no bundle files exist, and the full facilitation script lives inline, which is appropriate for an interactive triage skill but keeps it just short of the clean overview-plus-references anchor 5.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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.

A strong, concise description that clearly states both what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete play options and natural trigger language. It is distinct from sibling growth/lifecycle skills and avoids fluff.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and concrete actions — 'Diagnose where a product sits in its lifecycle and which play fits — extend, replace, or retire' — enumerating three specific plays, but the verb set (diagnose, select) is narrower than the comprehensive multi-action anchor 5 example.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Diagnose where a product sits in its lifecycle and which play fits') and when ('Use when a product is fading and you need the call, not just the worry') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the anchor 5 example pattern.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural PM phrases ('a product is fading', 'extend, replace, or retire', 'need the call, not just the worry') that a user would actually say, but omits common synonyms/variations that would push it to 5.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche — extend/replace/retire triage for a fading product — with distinct triggers that separate it from growth tools like ansoff-matrix and organic-growth-advisor, giving minimal conflict risk.	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: 12 suspicious	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Path: skills/lifecycle-play-advisor/SKILL.md
Commit: 1b5a524

Reviewed: 1 day ago

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