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issue-triage-labels

Full manual-label policy for the maintainer-only /issue triage command in dotnet/maui. Assess issue type, area, platform, status, regression, priority, performance, ownership, versions, workarounds and planning against existing evidence. Do not use for the initial area/platform-only agentic labeler or interactive milestone triage.

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Quality

Content

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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.

The body is a dense, highly specific policy document with genuinely actionable output constraints and a concrete structured-output contract, but it front-loads ~500 lines of edge-case prose into SKILL.md instead of splitting it into reference files. The evaluation workflow is presented as case law rather than a sequenced procedure, hurting workflow clarity and token efficiency.

Suggestions

Move the ~330-line "Evidence and authority" edge-case rules into a reference file (e.g., references/evidence-rules.md), keeping only a short summary of the core gates (authority, target binding, uncertainty/denial, chronology) in SKILL.md.

Convert the evaluation process into a numbered checklist with explicit validation checkpoints (gather evidence → cite exact quotes → gate on uncertainty/authority → withhold or report_incomplete) instead of interleaved prose rules.

Deduplicate the uncertainty, conditional and denial gates that recur across the confirmation, regression, decision, no-repro and workaround sections into one shared rule stated once and referenced from each label rule.

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Conciseness

The ~330-line "Evidence and authority" section stacks dense exception prose ("A comma can introduce a bound 'until' prerequisite; it does not bind arbitrary 'before' or 'pending' discourse back to the efficacy outcome") and restates the same uncertainty/denial/conditional gates across the confirmation, regression, decision, no-repro and workaround subsections. It does not explain concepts Claude already knows — all rules are bespoke policy — so it avoids the bottom anchor, but it is noticeably verbose with substantial padding and redundancy that could be tightened or moved out of the body.

2 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is concrete and executable: named inputs ("Read the prepared `context.json` and `references/label-policy.json`"), a complete JSON output shape, hard constraints ("exact substrings (7-1500 characters)", "at most one `add_labels` and one `remove_labels` intent", "Do not emit more than ten additions or ten removals"), named tools, and a per-label rule table. Minor gaps — e.g., no end-to-end worked example of one full decision flow — keep it below the copy-paste-ready top anchor.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A rough section-level sequence exists (read inputs, evaluate evidence, select labels, correct, emit structured output) and gating concepts are real (`withheld`, `report_incomplete`, `noop`), but the core evaluation section is ~330 lines of unsequenced case-law prose with no ordered checklist and only implicit checkpoints. Steps are listed at heading level but the executable path through the evidence rules is missing, matching the middle anchor rather than the clear-sequence-with-checkpoints anchor.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

There is genuine structure (sectioned headings, a well-organized label-selection table) and one clearly signaled, one-level-deep reference that exists on disk (references/label-policy.json, cited in the opening paragraph). However, hundreds of lines of edge-case policy detail that clearly belong in a separate reference file are inlined in SKILL.md, so organization is only partial.

3 / 5

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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 description: domain-specific, third person, comprehensive in enumerated capabilities, and cleanly disambiguated from adjacent skills. Its only weakness is that the positive usage trigger is implied through a negative exclusion clause rather than an explicit "Use when..." statement.

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Specificity

"Assess issue type, area, platform, status, regression, priority, performance, ownership, versions, workarounds and planning" enumerates multiple concrete assessment facets, pinned precisely to "the maintainer-only /issue triage command in dotnet/maui". This matches the anchor for multiple specific concrete actions with comprehensive coverage; no facet of the label taxonomy is evidently missing, so it is not the level below.

5 / 5

Completeness

The "what" is explicit ("Full manual-label policy for the maintainer-only /issue triage command in dotnet/maui") and explicit trigger guidance exists via the exclusion clause "Do not use for the initial area/platform-only agentic labeler or interactive milestone triage". The "when" is stated only negatively with the positive trigger implied rather than an explicit "Use when..." phrase, so it sits at "both present, when could be more explicit", not the top anchor.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms are present — "issue triage", "label", "regression", "priority", "workarounds", "agentic labeler" — giving good keyword coverage. A few natural synonyms users might say ("classify", "categorize", "GitHub issue labels") are missing, so it does not reach the comprehensive-with-synonyms anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The description is pinned to a single repository, a single maintainer-only command, and explicitly excludes the two neighboring skills (agentic area/platform labeler, milestone triage). This is a clear niche with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk, matching the top anchor exactly.

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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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skill_md_line_count

SKILL.md is long (534 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

dotnet/maui

Path

.github/skills/issue-triage-labels/SKILL.md

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