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user-story

Create user stories with Mike Cohn format and Gherkin acceptance criteria. Use when turning user needs into development-ready work with clear outcomes and testable conditions.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

63%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 well-structured and actionable with a clear five-step workflow, but it is padded with duplicated anti-pattern/pitfall material and references two files that are absent from the bundle.

Suggestions

De-duplicate the "Anti-Patterns" and "Common Pitfalls" sections, which cover the same five issues twice, to recover token budget.

Either bundle the referenced template.md and examples/sample.md or remove those references and rely on the inline templates and mini example already present.

Trim the "Why This Structure Works" section, which explains user-centric and outcome-focused concepts Claude already knows.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly actionable but pads concepts Claude already knows ("Why This Structure Works") and duplicates the same guidance across "Anti-Patterns" and "Common Pitfalls", so it could be tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

It gives a copy-paste CLI invocation, complete fill-in templates, quality checks, and good/bad examples, but references template.md and examples/sample.md that are not present in the bundle, leaving minor gaps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Five numbered steps are clearly sequenced with per-step quality checks and a final Validate and Refine step, though validation reads as review rather than an explicit error-recovery feedback loop.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well organized and the helper script is correctly bundled and signaled, but template.md and examples/sample.md are referenced without existing in the bundle, and substantial content that could be split stays inline.

3 / 5

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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 concrete, uses third person, and clearly answers both what and when with an explicit "Use when" clause. Trigger coverage is strong but could add a few common synonyms.

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Specificity

"Create user stories with Mike Cohn format and Gherkin acceptance criteria" names the domain plus two concrete format deliverables, listing several specific actions with only minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly states what ("Create user stories with Mike Cohn format and Gherkin acceptance criteria") and when ("Use when turning user needs into development-ready work with clear outcomes and testable conditions") with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural PM terms like "user stories", "user needs", and "acceptance criteria" appear, but common synonyms such as "backlog", "agile", or "sprint" are missing, so coverage is good rather than comprehensive.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Mike Cohn + Gherkin combination carves a clear niche around creating user stories, with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk against other PM artifacts.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

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

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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