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skill-authoring-patterns

Create, port, rewrite, review, or validate caddy-security repo-local skills, agents/openai.yaml metadata, AGENTS.md routing, and focused configuration, implementation, or workflow guidance.

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SKILL.md
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Security

Quality

Content

75%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 body is a lean, well-organized instruction skill with concrete paths, commands, conventions, and explicit validation checkpoints, supported by clearly signaled one-level-deep references to sibling skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense directive prose that assumes Claude's competence and never explains basic concepts, but a few long compound sentences could be tightened for readability.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete guidance via specific file paths (caddyfile.go, caddyfile_<domain>.go, plugin_authn.go), commands (scripts/quick_validate.py, git diff --check), and conventions (myportal, lowercase hyphen-case under 64 chars), with only minor gaps typical of an instruction-only skill.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Sections are well-sequenced (Scope, Routing, Ground Guidance, Maintenance and Validation) with explicit validation checkpoints and a feedback loop (quick_validate.py, report what could not be verified), though the structure is topical rather than a strict stepwise workflow.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Content is organized into clearly headed sections with one-level-deep inline references to sibling skills and their references/ files (e.g. syntax-maintenance.md); no bundle files exist in this skill, and structure is good with only minor organization gaps.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Description

67%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 and well-scoped to a distinct niche with comprehensive concrete actions, but it omits an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause and relies on repo-internal jargon rather than natural user phrasing.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming the natural user requests that should trigger this skill (e.g., 'Use when creating, porting, or reviewing caddy-security skills, or updating agents/openai.yaml or AGENTS.md routing').

Soften repo-internal jargon with more natural trigger synonyms users would actually say, such as 'skill authoring', 'metadata updates', or 'routing changes'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists five concrete actions ('Create, port, rewrite, review, or validate') applied to named targets (repo-local skills, agents/openai.yaml metadata, AGENTS.md routing, configuration/implementation/workflow guidance), giving comprehensive concrete coverage.

5 / 5

Completeness

Has a clear 'what' but no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance; per the judging guideline a missing explicit trigger caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Contains relevant domain keywords ('skills', 'metadata', 'routing', 'configuration') but leans on repo-specific jargon ('repo-local skills', 'AGENTS.md routing') with no natural user-facing trigger phrases or synonyms.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a clear niche (caddy-security repo-local skill authoring, openai.yaml metadata, AGENTS.md routing) with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills.

5 / 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.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

relative_links

Relative link issues: 3 suspicious

Warning

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 3 missing

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
greenpau/caddy-security
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