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Translate text between languages. Use when the user asks to translate content, detect language, or work with multilingual text.

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Quality

Content

86%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The content is a tight, executable single-purpose skill with good organization and copy-paste code. Trimming a few redundant comments and lightly sequencing the Guidelines would push it to full marks.

Suggestions

Remove the redundant '# Install if needed, then translate' comment and the 'pip install if needed' aside since the subprocess.install line already shows it.

Reorder the Guidelines into an explicit sequence (detect intent -> set source/target -> translate or detect-only -> present original + result) so the workflow reads as steps rather than rules.

Drop inline comments restating obvious values ('auto-detect source language', 'target language code') to tighten token efficiency.

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Conciseness

The body is efficient and assumes Claude's competence, but minor padding remains (redundant 'pip install if needed' framing and inline comments restating obvious values).

4 / 5

Actionability

The provided Python snippet is fully executable and copy-paste ready, including the install step, source/target variables, and the translate call covering the common case.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The single translate action is unambiguous and there are no destructive or batch operations requiring validation, but the Guidelines read as a list of behavioral rules rather than an explicit sequence.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

At under 50 lines with no need for external references, the well-organized sections (How to Translate, Language Codes, Guidelines) satisfy the simple-skill exception for progressive disclosure.

5 / 5

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18

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20

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Description

78%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 strong: it covers what and when with natural trigger phrasing in third-person voice. Minor gains are possible by adding a couple of common synonyms and tightening the scope of 'multilingual text'.

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Specificity

Names the translation domain and two concrete actions ('Translate text between languages', 'detect language'), but coverage is not comprehensive (no mention of which engines, batch, or file translation).

3 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly states what the skill does ('Translate text between languages') and when to use it with concrete trigger phrases ('Use when the user asks to translate content, detect language, or work with multilingual text').

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user phrasings are present ('translate content', 'detect language', 'work with multilingual text'), though a few common variants like 'translate to X' or 'what language is this' are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Translation is a clear niche with distinct triggers, but 'multilingual text' is somewhat broad and could overlap with general language-processing skills.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation14 / 16 Passed

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Total

14

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16

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Repository
fastclaw-ai/fastclaw
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