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Sets up and configures Hookdeck Outpost for outbound event delivery to customer endpoints. Use when sending webhooks to customers, building webhook delivery infrastructure, managing tenants and destinations with supported types (webhooks, Hookdeck Event Gateway, AWS SQS/Kinesis/S3, Azure Service Bus, GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka), or aligning topics and publishes. EventBridge support is tracked in GitHub issues.

70

Quality

85%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Failed to scan

The risk profile of this skill

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

70%

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

This is a well-organized routing and orchestration skill that excels at progressive disclosure and workflow clarity for agents navigating Hookdeck Outpost documentation. Its main weakness is low actionability—it contains no executable code or concrete examples within the skill itself, relying entirely on external links and reference files. The conciseness could be improved by removing redundant link appearances and low-value sections.

Suggestions

Add at least one minimal executable code example (e.g., a curl command to publish an event or create a tenant) directly in the skill to improve actionability without requiring external fetches.

Remove redundant link references—the API reference and quickstart links appear in multiple sections; consolidate them to reduce token usage.

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Conciseness

The skill is mostly efficient and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but it's somewhat verbose for what is essentially a link-aggregation and routing document. Some sections like 'Test webhook destination URLs' and 'Future skills' add marginal value, and there's repetition across sections (API reference and quickstart links appear multiple times).

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides structured guidance and links to external resources, but contains no executable code, commands, or concrete examples within the skill itself. It relies entirely on external documentation for actual implementation steps. The 'Fast path for agents' is a useful workflow but still abstract—it tells the agent to 'fetch' and 'use' things without showing what the actual API calls or code look like.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 'Fast path for agents' section provides a clear 5-step sequence with explicit decision points (scope ambiguity → default to smallest), a verification step before finishing (outpost-verify.md), and progressive escalation (quickstart → full-stack only when needed). The three-path ladder in outpost-scope.md is well-signaled. For a routing/orchestration skill, this is a well-structured workflow.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Excellent progressive disclosure structure: the SKILL.md serves as a clear overview and routing document, with well-signaled one-level-deep references to scope, verification, integration maps, and external docs. Content is appropriately split between quickstart links, reference files, and full-stack examples with explicit guidance on when to access each level.

3 / 3

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Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a strong skill description that clearly defines what the skill does (configures Hookdeck Outpost for outbound event delivery), when to use it (explicit 'Use when' clause with multiple trigger scenarios), and enumerates specific supported destination types. The description is concise yet comprehensive, uses third-person voice correctly, and has excellent distinctiveness due to the specific product and technology references.

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Specificity

The description lists multiple specific concrete actions: setting up Hookdeck Outpost, sending webhooks, building webhook delivery infrastructure, managing tenants and destinations, aligning topics and publishes. It also enumerates specific supported destination types (AWS SQS/Kinesis/S3, Azure Service Bus, GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.).

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (sets up and configures Hookdeck Outpost for outbound event delivery) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when' clause covering sending webhooks to customers, building webhook delivery infrastructure, managing tenants and destinations). The triggers are explicit and well-defined.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes strong natural keywords users would say: 'webhooks', 'webhook delivery', 'outbound event delivery', 'customer endpoints', 'tenants', 'destinations', plus specific service names like 'AWS SQS', 'Kafka', 'RabbitMQ', 'GCP Pub/Sub', 'Hookdeck Outpost'. These cover a wide range of terms a user might naturally use.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive with a clear niche: Hookdeck Outpost for outbound webhook/event delivery. The specific product name, the outbound direction, and the enumerated destination types make it very unlikely to conflict with other skills.

3 / 3

Total

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12

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.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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