release-please-development

This skill should be used when the user asks to "set up release please", "configure automated releases", "manage version numbers", "add changelog automation", or mentions release-please, semantic versioning, or monorepo versioning.

1.39x

Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

92%

1.39x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

100%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, lean skill body that delivers executable config examples, a clear setup sequence, and clean progressive disclosure into verified reference files. No significant weaknesses against the content rubric.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and table/code-driven (release types, conventional-commit mapping, config/manifest/workflow snippets) with no padding explaining concepts Claude already knows; every section earns its place.	3 / 3
Actionability	It provides copy-paste-ready, fully executable examples for config JSON, manifest JSON, the GitHub Actions workflow YAML, extra-files, and marketplace jsonpath entries — concrete and complete.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Basic Setup is a clear 3-step sequence (config, manifest, workflow) and How It Works lays out the runtime flow; this is a config setup task rather than a destructive/batch operation, so explicit validation checkpoints are not required.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md serves as an overview with clearly signaled, one-level-deep links to real bundle files (single-package.md, multi-package.md, configuration.md) in both Quick Reference and See Also, with detail appropriately split into references.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

90%

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, trigger-rich description that clearly signals when to use the skill and names a distinct niche. Its only weakness is that capabilities are conveyed through user-request phrasing rather than direct statements of what the skill does.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description names the domain and several actions ('set up release please', 'configure automated releases', 'manage version numbers', 'add changelog automation') but frames them as user requests rather than stating the skill's own capabilities, and 'manage version numbers' is somewhat generic, so it does not reach the multi-concrete-action clarity of level 3.	2 / 3
Completeness	The 'when' is explicit ('This skill should be used when the user asks to...') and the action verbs convey 'what' (configure releases, add changelog automation), so both what and when are addressed with explicit triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	It offers strong natural-phrase coverage a user would actually say ('set up release please', 'configure automated releases', 'add changelog automation') plus the tool name 'release-please', 'semantic versioning', and 'monorepo versioning'.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Narrow niche tied to release-please with distinct triggers ('release-please', 'semantic versioning', 'monorepo versioning') makes conflict with other skills unlikely.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 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
allowed_tools_field	'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)	Warning
relative_links	Relative link issues: 4 deeper-than-1-level	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: dwmkerr/claude-toolkit
Commit: 5432a9f

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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