release-readiness

Assesses ship-readiness for .NET MAUI release branches — Servicing Releases (SR) and Previews — and produces public-safe, copy-ready release handoffs or Loop-page drafts from the resulting evidence. Use for readiness verdicts, release blockers, Preview/SR status, release handoff pages, manual validation instructions, or "make the SR10/Preview N release page." Surveys CI and release delta, classifies regressions, and keeps Preview and servicing semantics distinct.

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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.

A highly actionable, well-structured skill body with concrete commands and clearly sequenced, validated workflows backed by real bundle files. Its main weakness is conciseness: the ~650-line body restates several concepts and inlines detail that could be trimmed or moved to references.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated explanations of the tag-existence rule, shipped/hotfix lifecycle, and blessed-build handling into a single authoritative passage to reduce restatement across sections.

Move the full ship-readiness checks table and the extended blessed-build/subscription/plumbing sections into a reference file, leaving SKILL.md as a tighter overview that points to them.

Tighten the long 'Don't maintain a standing table' paragraph and similar prose-heavy passages to their essential rule plus a one-line rationale.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly high-signal, non-obvious domain knowledge that Claude would not already know, but several concepts are restated across sections (tag-existence rule, shipped/hotfix lifecycle, blessed-build handling) and the ~650-line body could be tightened without losing clarity.	3 / 5
Actionability	Copy-paste ready throughout — concrete pwsh/bash commands with real flags, full parameter and output tables, exact '/backport to release/...' command strings, verbatim diff blocks, and exact gh/jq queries covering the common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Multi-step processes are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops (tracker refresh detect→per-tracker→validate, dependency-ordered Preview action ordering, re-run-after-merge backport flow, fail-open unknown/blocked gating); the skill's report-only stance means the destructive-cap does not apply.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Good structure with a clear overview (Architecture table, Quick Start) and well-signaled one-level-deep references to real bundle files (references/methodology.md, references/release-handoff.md, scripts/*.ps1) plus sibling-skill cross-references, but large amounts of detail (full ship-readiness checks table, blessed-build/subscription/plumbing sections) are inlined rather than offloaded.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 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, third-person description that concretely states what the skill does and when to use it with natural trigger phrases, occupying a clearly distinct niche. It is slightly below a perfect trigger-term score only because a couple of natural phrasings appear in the body rather than the description itself.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Assesses ship-readiness', 'produces public-safe, copy-ready release handoffs or Loop-page drafts', 'Surveys CI and release delta, classifies regressions', and 'keeps Preview and servicing semantics distinct' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's purpose.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (assesses readiness, produces handoffs/drafts, surveys CI, classifies regressions) and 'when' ('Use for readiness verdicts, release blockers, Preview/SR status...') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Strong natural trigger coverage including the imperative command form 'make the SR10/Preview N release page' plus a 'Use for' list (readiness verdicts, release blockers, Preview/SR status, handoff pages), though a few natural phrasings like 'is X ready to ship' live only in the body rather than the description.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	A clear, narrow niche (.NET MAUI release branches, SR vs Preview semantics, release handoffs/Loop drafts) with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk; the body even deflects the adjacent regression-risk question to a sibling skill.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

Warnings & errors only

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
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (653 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning
relative_links	Relative link issues: 1 missing, 6 suspicious	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: dotnet/maui
Path: .github/skills/release-readiness/SKILL.md
Commit: 90afade

Reviewed: ~17 hours ago

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