link-prospecting

Find link prospects, discover contact paths, and draft outreach from SERPs and backlink signals.

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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 content is concise, actionable, and well-structured with concrete query patterns, named tools, and a defined output schema, but the multi-step workflow lacks explicit validation/feedback checkpoints for its batch operations.

Suggestions

Insert an explicit verification checkpoint in the workflow, e.g., after contact discovery, a step to confirm contact details were actually returned by a tool before recording them (mirroring the guardrail as a workflow step).

Add a validate/retry loop around outreach drafting, such as re-checking each prospect's angle still holds before producing final drafts.

Optionally factor the long contact-discovery signal list into a short checklist to tighten the body further.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and well-organized, assumes Claude's competence, and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows; every section (tools, query patterns, workflow, output, guardrails) earns its place rather than padding the token budget.	3 / 3
Actionability	It gives concrete, executable guidance: named tools with specific use-cases, ready-made query patterns like "best <category> tools" and "<topic> resources", a hard batch limit ("Send at most 10 queries per call"), and a defined output table schema, rather than vague direction.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear 9-step numbered sequence with decision branches exists, but there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops for the batch prospecting/outreach operations; per the scoring notes, missing feedback loops in batch contexts caps workflow clarity at 2.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	No bundle files exist and the SKILL.md is a single, clearly sectioned document with no nested references; per the simple-skill guidance, well-organized sections with no need for external references can score 3.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 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 is specific and distinctive, naming concrete actions in proper third-person voice, but it omits an explicit 'Use when...' trigger and lacks some common user phrasings, which caps completeness and trigger coverage.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g., "Use when the user wants to build backlinks, find sites to link to their content, or draft outreach emails."

Include common layperson phrasings alongside technical terms, such as "link building", "guest posts", or "find websites to link to me".

Consider naming the output deliverable (a prioritized prospect list with outreach drafts) to sharpen the 'what' further.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Find link prospects, discover contact paths, and draft outreach" lists multiple specific concrete actions in third person voice, matching the anchor for listing several concrete actions rather than naming only a domain and some actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	It clearly answers what the skill does but lacks any "Use when..." clause or equivalent explicit trigger for when to invoke it, which per the judging guidelines caps completeness at 2.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Domain-natural terms like "link prospects", "outreach", "SERPs", and "backlink signals" are present, but common layperson variations (e.g., "link building", "guest posts", "reach out to websites") are missing, so it does not fully reach the good-coverage anchor.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The niche (SEO link prospecting from SERPs/backlink signals) is distinct with clear triggers unlikely to overlap with unrelated skills, matching the clear-niche anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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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 — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository: every-app/open-seo
Path: .agents/skills/link-prospecting/SKILL.md
Commit: f569726

Reviewed: 7 days ago

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