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building-emdash-site

Build and customize EmDash CMS sites on Astro. Use when creating pages, defining collections, writing seed files, querying content, rendering Portable Text, setting up menus/taxonomies/widgets, configuring deployment, or any task involving an EmDash-powered Astro site. Assumes basic Astro knowledge but provides all EmDash-specific patterns.

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SKILL.md
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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 skill body is well-structured and token-efficient, leading with high-value EmDash gotchas and a dense API cheat sheet while offloading detail to four well-organized reference files. The only weak spot is the workflow's verification step, which could be more explicit.

Suggestions

Add an explicit verification checkpoint to step 6 — e.g., confirm the admin UI at /_emdash/admin shows the seeded collections and that generated types (emdash-env.d.ts) exist before proceeding.

Add a brief validate/retry note for seed authoring (e.g., if the admin UI shows empty collections, check that taxonomy names in the seed match query names).

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Astro competence, focusing tokens on EmDash-specific knowledge Claude would not already know (the gotchas, file structure, cheat sheet). No padding or explanation of basic concepts.

5 / 5

Actionability

The Quick API Cheat Sheet provides copy-paste-ready TypeScript with real import paths and concrete usage for queries, site features, bylines, UI components, and page context, covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear six-step sequence (configure, design schema, build pages, wire features, create seed, run and verify) with a final verify step, but validation checkpoints are light and implicit rather than explicit feedback loops. It is not a destructive/batch operation, so no cap applies.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A concise overview in SKILL.md points via clearly signaled links to four real one-level-deep reference files, with a reference table summarizing each; content is appropriately split and easy to navigate.

5 / 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.

The description is exemplary: it pairs a concrete capability statement with an explicit, trigger-rich 'Use when' clause scoped to a distinctive EmDash-on-Astro niche. Both what and when are answered clearly with natural user phrasing.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'creating pages, defining collections, writing seed files, querying content, rendering Portable Text, setting up menus/taxonomies/widgets, configuring deployment' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Build and customize EmDash CMS sites on Astro') and when ('Use when creating pages...or any task involving an EmDash-powered Astro site') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases users would actually say ('creating pages', 'writing seed files', 'rendering Portable Text', 'configuring deployment') plus synonyms grouped as 'menus/taxonomies/widgets', with the distinctive 'EmDash-powered Astro site' trigger.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche tied to a named product (EmDash) on a named framework (Astro) with distinctive triggers, making conflict with other skills minimal.

5 / 5

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
emdash-cms/emdash
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