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aws-cloudformation-elasticache

Provides AWS CloudFormation patterns for ElastiCache Redis or Memcached infrastructure, including subnet groups, parameter groups, security controls, and cross-stack outputs. Use when designing cache tiers, high-availability replication groups, encryption settings, or reusable CloudFormation templates for application caching.

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Quality

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The canonical home for this skill is giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

SKILL.md
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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 body is well-structured, actionable, and uses progressive disclosure effectively, with concrete examples and a validated multi-step workflow. The main shortcoming is the absence of an explicit error-recovery feedback loop in the validation step.

Suggestions

Add an explicit feedback loop to step 5: if template validation or change-set inspection fails, fix the template and re-run validation before proceeding.

Tighten framing sentences like 'without turning SKILL.md into a full service manual' to further reduce token overhead.

Consider one fully executable Memcached CacheCluster example to round out the two topologies referenced in step 1.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly lean and efficient with focused sections and minimal padding, though a few framing sentences (e.g. 'without turning SKILL.md into a full service manual') could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides two complete copy-paste-ready CloudFormation YAML examples and names concrete resource types throughout, but the instruction steps lean more on guidance than fully executable templates.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear five-step sequenced workflow with an explicit pre-rollout validation step (validate, inspect replacement, review exposure, confirm settings); however it lacks an explicit validate-fix-retry feedback loop for the destructive infra change.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md is a concise overview pointing to two real one-level-deep references (references/examples.md, references/reference.md), both listed and clearly signaled in a References section.

5 / 5

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Description

92%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 specific, complete, and clearly distinguishable, stating concrete capabilities and an explicit 'Use when' clause with natural trigger phrases. Its only gap is modest trigger-term synonym coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain and multiple concrete capabilities — 'subnet groups, parameter groups, security controls, and cross-stack outputs' — covering the key ElastiCache resource surface comprehensively.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Provides AWS CloudFormation patterns for ElastiCache...') and when ('Use when designing cache tiers, high-availability replication groups, encryption settings...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural coverage ('ElastiCache Redis or Memcached', 'replication groups', 'encryption settings', 'cache tiers', 'CloudFormation templates') but a few common terms like 'redis cluster', 'failover', or 'Multi-AZ' are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear narrow niche (CloudFormation for ElastiCache Redis/Memcached) with distinct triggers and minimal overlap with adjacent VPC/security/ECS skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

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Repository

giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

Path

plugins/developer-kit-aws/skills/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-elasticache/SKILL.md

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