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update-knowledge-base

Maintain and update product knowledge base from releases, features, and project changes with optional wiki sync

Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

71%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 operationally strong: concrete commands, named tools, complete templates, explicit approval gates, and thorough fallback/error handling make it highly actionable with a clear workflow. Its main weakness is structure — all templates and agent prompts are inlined in a 350-line monolith with no reference files for progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Move the large knowledge-entry template, update-log template, and agent prompts into references/ files (e.g. references/entry-template.md, references/agent-prompts.md) and link to them from the body to cut SKILL.md's token footprint.

Add a post-write verification step in Phase 4 (e.g. re-read updated files to confirm frontmatter, history table, and version increments landed correctly) to close the batch-operation validation gap.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body contains no conceptual padding (it never explains what a knowledge base or release process is) and is dense with task-specific operational content; only minor sections like the inline plan-presentation block and long templates could be trimmed, matching the 'efficient; minor instances' anchor rather than the lean 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete globs, exact gh commands with JSON field lists, named MCP tools, mkdir commands, and complete file templates; the [CUSTOMIZE: your-org/your-repo] and [placeholder] tokens keep it from being fully copy-paste ready, matching anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear Phase 1-6 sequence with a pre-flight check, explicit user-approval checkpoints ("Wait for user approval before making changes", "NEVER auto-publish"), a fallback table, and conflict-escalation error handling; the only validation gap is the absence of post-write verification after batch updates, so it fits anchor 4 rather than the explicit validate-and-retry loop of 5.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-sectioned but entirely monolithic at ~350 lines with no bundle files: the ~45-line knowledge-entry template, ~40-line update-log template, and agent prompts clearly belong in separate reference files, matching the 'some structure but content that should be separate is inline' anchor rather than the well-split structure of 4.

3 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Description

53%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 clearly states what the skill does and its data sources, but lacks any explicit 'when to use' trigger phrasing and misses natural keyword variations users would actually say. It is reasonably distinct from other skills but sits at the middle of the rubric on most dimensions.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when the user says 'update knowledge base', 'update KB', 'sync product docs', or after shipping a release or major feature launch."

Include common synonyms and shorthand users would naturally say ("KB", "product docs", "refresh the wiki") to improve trigger-term coverage.

Replace the generic verbs "maintain and update" with more concrete actions such as "audit KB entries for staleness, create entries for new features, mark deprecations, and sync to Confluence/Notion".

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ("product knowledge base") and input sources ("releases, features, and project changes") plus "optional wiki sync", but the core verbs "maintain and update" are generic — it does not list several specific concrete actions as a 5 would, yet goes beyond the bare domain naming of a 2.

3 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear (maintain/update the product KB from release, feature, and project-change sources, with optional wiki sync), but there is no 'Use when...' clause — the trigger is only weakly implied, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Relevant keywords like "knowledge base", "releases", and "wiki sync" are present, but common natural variations users would say ("update KB", "update product docs", "refresh the wiki") are missing, matching the 'some relevant keywords but missing synonyms' anchor.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The product-knowledge-base maintenance niche with optional wiki sync is mostly distinct with only minor overlap risk against generic documentation-update skills, matching the 'mostly distinct; minor overlap risk' anchor rather than the clear-niche 5.

4 / 5

Total

13

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20

Passed

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

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

huytieu/COG-second-brain

Path

.claude/skills/update-knowledge-base/SKILL.md

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