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google-cloud-recipe-onboarding

Guides a developer's first steps on Google Cloud, covering account creation, billing setup, project management, and deploying a first resource. Use when a new developer wants to initialize their first Google Cloud project, configure billing, and verify deployment. Don't use for enterprise organization setup (use Google Cloud Setup guided flow for that instead). Don't use for complex multi-project architectures.

Quality

87%

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Content

81%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 well-sequenced, highly actionable onboarding workflow with strong validation checkpoints and real error-recovery loops. Its main weakness is redundancy: the top agent-policy block repeats guidance that Sections 2 and 3 restate, which inflates token cost without adding information.

Suggestions

Consolidate the duplicated new-user/authentication guidance between the top IMPORTANT agent-policy block and Section 2 into a single authoritative statement, cross-referenced from the other location.

Move the lengthy agent-interaction policy (check-before-mutate audits, single-question policy, first-turn rules) into a reference file (e.g., references/agent-policy.md), keeping only a two-line summary in SKILL.md, mirroring the existing attribution.md pattern.

Trim the repeated per-section explanations of why silent audits prevent token-burning collisions; state the rationale once in Section 1 and simply invoke 'silent audit' thereafter.

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Conciseness

Mostly operational content, but the top agent-policy block duplicates guidance restated nearly verbatim in Section 2 (create-account/auth-login instructions) and Section 3 (single-question policy, silent audits), and the audit rationale is re-explained per section. Not a 2 because nearly everything is actionable instructions rather than padding or explanation of known concepts.

3 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable gcloud commands with flags, JSON output formats, and explicit placeholders throughout (e.g., `gcloud projects create {PROJECT_ID} --name="{PROJECT_NAME}" --quiet --format="json"`), including a concrete error-recovery path for project ID collisions.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Five clearly sequenced sections with silent pre-flight audits, halt/route conditions for enterprise accounts, a mandatory consent gate before mutations, and a dedicated Validation Logic section verifying each completed stage, plus a feedback loop (collision suffix recovery). Matches the anchor for explicit validation and error-recovery loops.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Good structure with the single bundle reference (references/attribution.md, which exists) clearly signaled in two places and one level deep; however, the lengthy agent-interaction policy block inlined at the top belongs in a reference file, leaving minor organization gaps.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

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Description

87%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 in third-person voice with a clear what, an explicit 'Use when' trigger, and well-scoped negative triggers that route adjacent use cases elsewhere. Trigger coverage would be marginally stronger with common synonyms like "GCP" or "get started".

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Specificity

Names the domain plus several concrete actions ("account creation, billing setup, project management, and deploying a first resource"), but the actions stay at the capability level rather than the granular operations of a 5.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Guides a developer's first steps on Google Cloud, covering account creation, billing setup, project management, and deploying a first resource") and when ("Use when a new developer wants to initialize their first Google Cloud project, configure billing, and verify deployment") with concrete trigger phrases, plus explicit negative triggers.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage ("Google Cloud", "new developer", "initialize their first Google Cloud project", "configure billing", "verify deployment"), but common variations users would actually say such as "GCP" or "get started/set up my Google Cloud account" are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear new-developer onboarding niche with explicit conflict-avoidance boundaries ("Don't use for enterprise organization setup... use Google Cloud Setup guided flow for that instead"; "Don't use for complex multi-project architectures"), minimizing overlap with related cloud skills.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

google/skills

Path

skills/cloud/google-cloud-recipe-onboarding/SKILL.md

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