164-java-profiling-verify

Use when you need to verify Java performance optimizations by comparing profiling results before and after refactoring — including baseline validation, post-refactoring report generation, quantitative before/after metrics comparison, side-by-side flamegraph analysis, regression detection, or creating profiling-comparison-analysis and profiling-final-results documentation. This should trigger for requests such as Verify performance fix; Verify the performance; Verify the memory; Verify the threading. Part of cursor-rules-java project

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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.

A well-structured, validation-rich skill body with clear sequencing and good progressive disclosure into a single reference file. Its main weaknesses are some redundant trigger/section repetition and guidance that stays abstract, deferring all executable commands to the reference.

Suggestions

De-duplicate the 'When to use' list (it repeats 'Verify the profiling' twice and largely restates the frontmatter triggers) to tighten conciseness.

Add at least one concrete example of a profiler command or a sample before/after metric table in the body so the guidance is more immediately executable rather than fully deferred to the reference.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient with no concept-overload, but the 'When to use' list duplicates the description's triggers (even repeating 'Verify the profiling' twice) and 'What is covered' restate the intro, so it could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Names concrete artifacts (profiling-comparison-analysis-YYYYMMDD.md) and comparison categories, but gives no executable profiler commands or tool invocations — the actual how-to is deferred to the reference, leaving guidance concrete but incomplete.	2 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear 4-step sequence with explicit validation checkpoints (step 1 verifies baseline artifacts are non-empty; VALIDATE constraint checks both report sets before comparison), appropriate for this inherently verification-oriented task.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is an overview that points to a single one-level-deep reference (references/164-java-profiling-verify.md, which exists), clearly signaled in both the workflow and a Reference section, with the 13KB of detail appropriately split out.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

92%

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 with explicit 'Use when' triggers, concrete enumerated actions, and natural trigger phrases. Its main weakness is modest distinctiveness: generic verify-terms and an explicit series membership raise overlap risk with sibling profiling skills.

Suggestions

Make trigger terms more skill-specific (e.g., 'Verify the performance fix after refactoring') to reduce overlap with sibling Java profiling skills in the cursor-rules-java series.

Drop or contextualize 'Part of cursor-rules-java project' so the description's trigger logic stands on its own rather than implying a competing series of similar skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Enumerates many concrete actions — 'baseline validation, post-refactoring report generation, quantitative before/after metrics comparison, side-by-side flamegraph analysis, regression detection'. Matches the score-3 anchor listing multiple specific concrete actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (verify optimizations via before/after profiling comparison) and when ('Use when you need to verify... This should trigger for requests such as...'), matching the score-3 anchor with explicit triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Provides natural trigger phrases users would say ('Verify performance fix; Verify the performance; Verify the memory; Verify the threading'), with the body adding more variants like 'Verify the GC' and 'Performance benchmark'. Good coverage of natural terms.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	'Part of cursor-rules-java project' signals a series of sibling Java profiling skills, and the trigger terms ('Verify the performance', 'Verify the memory') are generic enough to overlap with those siblings, so it could still conflict rather than being clearly distinct.	2 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository: jabrena/cursor-rules-java
Commit: 86eb63d

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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