spec-loop-clarify-task

Engage the User to resolve important open decisions in Spec Loop work, including tasks, plans, design updates, work breakdowns, implementation checkpoints, and ADR drafting. Use when the user asks to clarify, compare options, discuss criteria, or stress-test, or when different answers could materially change scope, behavior, policy, constraints, route, Design, Test specification, or ADR content. Provides mandatory decision screening for workflows that require it before dependent Spec Loop content is written or revised. Also use for general grilling when explicitly selected.

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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 well-structured, actionable clarification protocol with concrete templates, a sequenced decision tree, validation checkpoints, and an exit checklist. Its main weakness is verbosity from restating definitions and over-elaborating the effort-question section.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated 'important open decision' definition into one canonical statement and reference it instead of re-elaborating it in the body and Resolution scope sections.

Trim the clarification-effort section by collapsing the enumerated valid orderings and continuum-anchor prose into a brief rule plus the fixed template.

Consider moving the full clarification-effort template and Options-validation checklist into a reference file to reduce SKILL.md length while keeping the decision tree inline.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The ~400-line body is mostly procedural and legitimate, but restates the 'important open decision' definition in multiple places and spends ~60 lines on the clarification-effort template with redundant ordering examples, so it could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready formats ('Decision: <brief answer> (<N>%)', the Question/Options/Reason template, the fixed clarification-effort template) plus an explicit validation checklist before sending Options, with only minor gaps.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The five-step decision tree is clearly sequenced with validation checkpoints (validate Options shape before sending, fall back to recommended option if unanswered) and an Exit checklist, though a few checkpoints remain implicit.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well organized with clear section headers and one-level-deep links to sibling skills (plan-task, write-adr, implementation-flow); with no bundle files present the structure is appropriate, though some long template sections could arguably live in references.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 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.

The description clearly and explicitly states both capability and trigger conditions with concrete, natural-language phrasing tied to a well-defined Spec Loop niche. It is specific, complete, and largely distinct, with only minor keyword and overlap gaps.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names concrete actions ('resolve important open decisions', 'clarify, compare options, discuss criteria, or stress-test', 'mandatory decision screening') across several Spec Loop artifact types, with only minor gaps in coverage.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (engage user to resolve open decisions, decision screening) and when ('Use when the user asks to clarify, compare options, discuss criteria, or stress-test') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural user phrasings like 'clarify', 'compare options', 'discuss criteria', 'stress-test', and 'general grilling', giving good keyword coverage though a few common synonyms are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Tightly scoped to the Spec Loop niche (tasks, plans, ADR drafting, decision screening) with distinct triggers, though the 'general grilling when explicitly selected' clause introduces minor overlap with generic grill skills.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 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

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Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 8 suspicious	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: dpolivaev/spec-loop
Path: skills/spec-loop-clarify-task/SKILL.md
Commit: 27df5cc

Reviewed: 19 days ago

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