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ascend-webhooks

Receive and verify Ascend webhooks. Use when setting up Ascend webhook handlers, debugging Ascend signature verification (X-Ascend-Signature, HMAC-SHA256), or handling insurance payment events like invoice.paid, payout.paid, and refund.paid.

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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-organized, actionable, and concise, with a complete core verification example and well-structured reference pointers. Its main weakness is referencing example handler directories that are not present in the bundle.

Suggestions

Add the missing examples/express, examples/nextjs, and examples/fastapi directories (or remove/fix the links), since 'For complete handlers with tests' currently leads to dead paths.

Tighten the opening paragraph by dropping the generic webhook explanation ('so your app is notified when an event happens — for example when an invoice is paid') since Claude already knows what webhooks are.

Add a brief failure-handling loop for verification (if signature fails, check raw body vs. re-serialized JSON and timestamp tolerance) to turn the gotcha callouts into an explicit feedback sequence.

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Conciseness

Mostly lean and efficient with a copy-paste verification function and compact tables; the intro mildly over-explains what webhooks are ('so your app is notified when an event happens').

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides executable JavaScript verification code, a concrete npx command, and a setup email address; the gap is that the referenced example handler directories do not exist in the bundle.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Verification is laid out as a clear numbered sequence (parse, build signed string, compute HMAC, constant-time compare) with gotcha callouts, though an explicit verify-fail-then-retry feedback loop is absent.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Good overview structure with well-signaled one-level-deep reference files (overview.md, setup.md, verification.md) that exist; the broken links to missing examples/express, examples/nextjs, examples/fastapi directories are the organization gap.

4 / 5

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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, specific description that clearly states both capability and trigger conditions with concrete domain terms. It is concise, distinct, and actionable without fluff.

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Specificity

Names several concrete actions ('Receive and verify Ascend webhooks', 'debugging Ascend signature verification', 'handling insurance payment events') within its niche, with only minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers what ('Receive and verify Ascend webhooks') and when ('Use when setting up Ascend webhook handlers, debugging... or handling insurance payment events') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms users would say ('Ascend webhooks', 'X-Ascend-Signature', 'HMAC-SHA256', 'invoice.paid', 'payout.paid', 'refund.paid'); good coverage though a few synonyms are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a clear niche (Ascend insurance payments) with distinct triggers (X-Ascend-Signature, named event types), keeping conflict risk minimal despite sibling HMAC webhook 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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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Relative link issues: 6 missing

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15

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