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storytelling-advisor

Shape pitches, brand stories, presentations, and creative writing with narrative frameworks such as the Hero's Journey, Story Spine, and Freytag's Pyramid. Use when a user wants to structure, critique, or strengthen a story.

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SKILL.md
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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 a well-structured, actionable guide with concrete frameworks, prompting questions, selection guidance, and worked examples. Its main weaknesses are redundant restatement of the fact/fiction boundary and framework mappings, and implicit rather than explicit validation checkpoints.

Suggestions

Consolidate the fact/fiction boundary guidance into one authoritative section and reference it from Step 2, Step 5, and Example 1 instead of restating it.

Merge the 'Step 3: Select the Framework' mapping table into the 'Frameworks Available' section (or vice versa) to remove the duplicated framework listing.

Add an explicit validation checkpoint in the workflow (e.g., 'Before drafting, confirm each factual slot is sourced or marked as a placeholder') with a fix-and-retry loop.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient and well-organized, but framework content is repeated (full tables in 'Frameworks Available' plus a remapping in 'Step 3') and the fact/fiction boundary guidance is restated in the intro, Step 2, Step 5, and Example 1, so it could be tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, reusable guidance — per-stage prompting questions, a framework-selection matrix, and two worked input/output examples — but a few steps like 'Map Content to Structure — Fill each framework slot' remain somewhat abstract.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clearly numbered 7-step sequence runs from goal clarification to a punchy ending, with the fact/fiction separation acting as an implicit checkpoint; validation is mostly implicit rather than an explicit validate-fix-retry loop, leaving a minor gap.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist, so all content is inline, but it is organized into clear, well-labeled sections with tables; the structure is good though the skill exceeds 50 lines and some framework reference material could conceivably live in a separate file.

4 / 5

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Description

83%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 strong: it states concrete capabilities, names distinctive frameworks, and includes an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause. Its main weakness is a slightly generic main verb and modest overlap with general creative-writing skills.

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Specificity

Names several concrete actions ('Shape pitches, brand stories, presentations, and creative writing') and specific frameworks (Hero's Journey, Story Spine, Freytag's Pyramid), but the verb 'Shape' is somewhat generic, leaving minor gaps versus the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly states both what it does ('Shape pitches, brand stories, presentations, and creative writing with narrative frameworks...') and when to use it ('Use when a user wants to structure, critique, or strengthen a story.'), matching the both-what-and-when anchor with concrete triggers.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms users would say ('pitches', 'brand stories', 'presentations', 'creative writing', 'story', 'structure', 'critique', 'strengthen') with good coverage, though a few common synonyms are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The named narrative frameworks (Hero's Journey, Story Spine, Freytag's Pyramid) carve a clear niche, but there is minor overlap risk with general writing or creative-writing skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

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Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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