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idea-ingest

Ingest links, articles, tweets, and ideas into the brain. Fetch content, save to brain with analysis, credit the author (people page only when they pass the notability gate), and cross-link. Use when the user shares a link or says "read this", "save this", "think about this".

Quality

87%

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The canonical home for this skill is idea-ingest in garrytan/gbrain

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

82%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.

A highly actionable, well-structured instruction skill: concrete commands, exact formats, a full output template, and an explicit failure-handling protocol. Its main deductions are triple-statement of the notability rule, validation steps that live outside the phase sequence, and inconsistent external reference paths.

Suggestions

State the notability-gate rule once (in Phase 3) and have the Contract and Anti-Patterns sections reference it by name instead of restating it, trimming the duplicated fetch-failure handling between Edge Cases and 'When it fails'.

Move the duplicate-URL pre-check and fetch-success verification into the numbered phases as explicit validation checkpoints (e.g., a 'Phase 0: Check brain for existing coverage' and a verify step after fetch) so the sequence itself carries its validation.

Normalize the external reference paths to a single consistent root and confirm they resolve from the skill's location, since none of the referenced files ship in the skill bundle.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense and domain-specific with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows, but the notability-gate rule is stated three times (Contract, Phase 3, Anti-Patterns) and fetch-failure handling is duplicated between Edge Cases and 'When it fails'.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready commands ('gbrain files upload-raw <file> --page <slug>', 'gbrain write-request <request_id>', 'gbrain sync'), exact formats (back-link template, '**Author:** {Author}, {role}'), a complete output template, and edge cases covering the common failure modes.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Six clearly numbered phases with a gated author decision tree and an error-recovery section (exit codes, write_pending polling), but the duplicate-URL check and fetch-success verification are described in Edge Cases/Anti-Patterns rather than embedded as validation checkpoints in the phase sequence.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized sections with detailed filing rules correctly deferred to one-level-deep referenced files ('skills/_brain-filing-rules.md', 'skills/conventions/quality.md') instead of inlined, though the referenced paths are inconsistently rooted ('skills/...' vs '../conventions/...') and none exist in the skill bundle.

4 / 5

Total

17

/

20

Passed

Description

88%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.

A strong description: third-person, concrete, and comprehensive on capabilities, with an explicit 'Use when' clause carrying quoted natural trigger phrases. The only weakness is modest synonym coverage in the trigger terms.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists five concrete third-person actions — 'Ingest links, articles, tweets, and ideas', 'Fetch content', 'save to brain with analysis', 'credit the author (people page only when they pass the notability gate)', 'and cross-link' — comprehensively covering the workflow with no real gaps.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (ingest, fetch, save with analysis, credit author, cross-link) and 'when' with a concrete 'Use when the user shares a link or says...' clause quoting exact trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user phrases like '"read this", "save this", "think about this"' and 'shares a link' are present, but common variations such as 'bookmark this', 'check this out', 'URL', or 'put this in brain' (which appears only in the triggers field, not the description) are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The brain-ingestion niche with link-based triggers is mostly distinct, but 'save this' and 'read this' are generic enough to risk overlap with bookmarking or file-saving skills.

4 / 5

Total

18

/

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.

Validation — 14 / 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: 1 missing, 1 suspicious

Warning

Total

14

/

16

Passed

Repository

garrytan/gbrain

Path

plugin-variants/gbrain-coding/skills/idea-ingest/SKILL.md

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