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Promote existing research into a stable-status canonical article under `articles/` in a Knowledge Base project (the `knowledge-base` starter pack). Read when a decision has actually been made and the team wants the source-of-truth written down, or when asked to consolidate, canonicalize, promote research, or supersede an older article. Carries the decision-confirmation gate, the `supersedes:` chain that keeps the evidence trail intact, and the canonical voice. Does not conduct new research — that is the sibling `research-with-sources` skill.

Quality

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Quality

Content

81%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.

A highly actionable, well-sequenced procedure skill: concrete commands, copy-paste templates, a decision STOP gate, and a verification checklist. Its main weakness is redundancy — the decision-confirmation gate is repeated across four sections — and a monolithic single-file layout where a references split could reduce token load.

Suggestions

Consolidate the decision-gate guidance into one section: the STOP gate, the 'Do NOT consolidate when' list, Step 2's re-confirm, and the Non-goals entry all restate the same rule — state it once authoritatively and reference it from the other spots.

Dedupe the 'Consolidation is promotion, not creation' slogan, which appears in both the STOP-gate section and Step 1, and trim the 'When to use this procedure' section that largely mirrors the trigger information already in the description and STOP gate.

Move the article-structure template and the linking rules (Step 4) into a references/ file (e.g., references/article-template.md) to cut main-body tokens, keeping SKILL.md as the procedure overview with clearly signaled one-level-deep references.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient with no padding of concepts Claude already knows, but the decision-gate rule is restated four times (STOP gate, 'Do NOT consolidate when', Step 2 re-confirm, Non-goals) and 'Consolidation is promotion, not creation' appears twice — more than minor over-explanation, so anchor 3 rather than 4.

3 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable for an instruction-only skill: concrete commands ('exec("grep -rn <topic-keyword> <content-dir>")', 'config({ key: \'content.dir\' }))'), copy-paste-ready YAML frontmatter and article-structure templates, exact 'superseded_by:' snippets, and a verify checklist with commands — covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Six clearly sequenced steps with an upfront STOP gate before any write, a feedback loop in Step 2 ('pause and re-confirm with the user before writing'), and an explicit Step 6 verification checklist — matching the anchor-5 example's validate-and-checkpoint pattern; not 4 because checkpoints and recovery paths are explicit rather than implied.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A well-organized single-file procedure with clearly signaled one-level pointers to the platform '/open-knowledge' skill and sibling '/research-with-sources' skill and no nested references, but it is a ~157-line monolith with no bundle files; templates and linking rules could be split into references, and the under-50-line simple-skill exception does not apply — good structure with minor organization gaps (anchor 4).

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

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 description: third-person, concrete, with an explicit 'Read when' trigger clause and explicit disambiguation from its sibling skill. The only gaps are a couple of missing natural trigger synonyms ('finalize', 'write up the decision') and an action list that elaborates one core operation rather than enumerating several.

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Specificity

Names several concrete actions and mechanisms — 'Promote existing research into a stable-status canonical article under `articles/`', 'decision-confirmation gate', '`supersedes:` chain', 'canonical voice' — but this is one core action elaborated with features rather than a comprehensive multi-action catalog, so it sits between anchors 4 and 5, closer to 4.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Promote existing research into a stable-status canonical article under `articles/`') and when ('Read when a decision has actually been made... or when asked to consolidate, canonicalize, promote research, or supersede an older article'), plus a negative scope boundary ('Does not conduct new research'), matching the anchor-5 pattern.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural-keyword coverage with synonyms — 'consolidate, canonicalize, promote research, or supersede an older article', 'decision has actually been made', 'source-of-truth written down' — but common variations the body itself cites, such as 'finalize' or 'document/write up the decision', are missing from the description.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche (KB canonicalization after a decided outcome) with distinct triggers, and the closest conflict is explicitly disambiguated ('Does not conduct new research — that is the sibling `research-with-sources` skill'), giving minimal conflict risk.

5 / 5

Total

18

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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

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metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository

inkeep/open-knowledge

Path

packages/server/assets/skills/packs/knowledge-base/consolidate/SKILL.md

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