skill-creator

Guide for creating effective skills. Use when creating a new skill or updating an existing skill that extends agent capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

Quality

86%

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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 high-quality, well-structured meta-skill body that pairs executable commands with a clearly sequenced, validated workflow and properly delegates detailed material to one-level-deep reference files. The only minor weakness is occasional over-explanation that could be trimmed for token efficiency.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence, but contains a few instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed, such as the bridge/cliffs metaphor and repeated reminders that scripts live in this skill's scripts/ directory.	4 / 5
Actionability	It provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands ('python scripts/init_skill.py <skill-name> --path <output-directory>', 'python scripts/package_skill.py <path/to/skill-folder>') with concrete examples that cover the common skill-creation cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The six-step creation process is clearly sequenced with explicit skip conditions, a validation feedback loop ('If validation fails... fix any validation errors and run the packaging command again'), and a testing checkpoint requiring scripts to be actually run.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md serves as a clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references to real bundle files (references/workflows.md, references/output-patterns.md, scripts/init_skill.py, scripts/package_skill.py), plus explicit patterns and a rule against deeply nested references.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 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 description that clearly states both the skill's purpose and its explicit 'Use when...' triggers, covering the skill-authoring niche with minimal conflict risk. The main gap is in trigger-term breadth: a few natural synonyms ('build a skill', 'skill template') would round out coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description names the domain and lists several concrete capability types ('specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations'), though it frames them as what skills do rather than as discrete action verbs, leaving minor coverage gaps relative to a fully comprehensive action list.	4 / 5
Completeness	It explicitly answers both what ('Guide for creating effective skills' that extend agent capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations) and when ('Use when creating a new skill or updating an existing skill') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	It includes natural trigger phrases a user would actually say ('creating a new skill', 'updating an existing skill') with good keyword coverage, but misses some common synonyms and variations such as 'skill template', 'build a skill', or 'skill packaging'.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The skill-creation niche has clearly distinct triggers ('creating a new skill', 'updating an existing skill') with minimal overlap risk against other skills, which are typically task-oriented rather than meta-authoring.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 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
relative_links	Relative link issues: 6 missing	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 12 missing	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: eigent-ai/eigent
Path: resources/example-skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md
Commit: d308955

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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