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concept-synthesis

Deduplicate and synthesize raw concept stubs into a tiered intellectual map (T1 Canon to T4 Riff), tracing idea evolution across sources over time. Transforms thousands of raw concept pages into a curated intellectual fingerprint.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

72%

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

The body is well-structured and highly actionable, with concrete commands, output schemas, tier thresholds, and clear phase sequencing. Its main weaknesses are a redundant conformance-test boilerplate tail and the absence of an explicit validation feedback loop for its batch, mutating writes.

Suggestions

Add an explicit validate→fix→retry checkpoint after the batch write phases (e.g. run `gbrain query 'type:concept'` to verify tier/alias counts and re-run a phase on mismatches) to raise workflow clarity.

Trim or fold the 'Contract' and 'Output Format' meta-sections into the relevant body sections to remove redundant conformance-test boilerplate and recover tokens.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly lean with no concept-explanation filler, but the trailing 'Contract' and 'Output Format' sections redundantly restate already-covered material and exist only 'for the conformance test', adding token overhead.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides a concrete `gbrain query` command, exact frontmatter schemas for T1/T3/T4 output, and specific tier thresholds ('No concept should be T1 with < 4 months span or < 6 mentions'), which is copy-paste-ready guidance.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The four phases are clearly sequenced with quality gates, but this is heavy batch/mutating work without an explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loop on the writes, which per the guidelines caps workflow clarity at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist, and the body is organized into clear sections with one-level-deep, clearly signaled markdown references to conventions and sibling skills, matching the simple/no-bundle anchor.

3 / 3

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Description

67%

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 dedup/synthesis/tiering actions in third person, but lacks an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause and leans on specialized jargon rather than natural user phrasings.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when ...' clause stating when Claude should invoke this skill (e.g. after a major ingestion batch or when the user asks to find patterns across their notes).

Soften jargon like 'curated intellectual fingerprint' and 'T1 Canon to T4 Riff' in favor of natural trigger terms such as 'deduplicate concepts', 'find patterns across my notes', or 'build my intellectual map'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions ('Deduplicate and synthesize raw concept stubs', 'tiered intellectual map (T1 Canon to T4 Riff)', 'tracing idea evolution across sources over time') in third person, matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers what it does, but 'when' is only implied with no explicit 'Use when...' clause, which per the guidelines caps completeness at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Some natural-ish terms appear ('concept stubs', 'intellectual map') but the description leans on specialized jargon ('tiered intellectual map (T1 Canon to T4 Riff)', 'curated intellectual fingerprint') without broad natural phrasings a user would say.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche — synthesizing concept stubs into a tiered intellectual map — that is distinct from the sibling ingestion skills and unlikely to trigger for the wrong skill.

3 / 3

Total

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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

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

relative_links

Relative link issues: 5 missing, 2 suspicious

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
garrytan/gbrain
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