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801-regulations-eu-ai-act

Use when reviewing, designing, or modifying Java enterprise systems that use AI, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, tool calling, workflow automation, or model-based decision support and need EU AI Act regulatory awareness. This should trigger for requests such as Review a Java AI system for EU AI Act controls; Design governance for an AI agent with enterprise tools; Add human oversight and auditability to LLM workflows; Assess RAG or model-driven decision support before production release. Part of Plinth Toolkit

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SKILL.md
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Quality

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.

A well-structured review skill: clear scope, a useful AI-system vs AI-agent distinction, an ordered workflow with escalation and evidence-gap checkpoints, and exemplary progressive disclosure to four real bundle files. The primary weakness is redundancy — repeated purpose statements and a duplicated trigger list cost tokens without adding guidance.

Suggestions

State the non-legal-advice disclaimer once (e.g. in the Constraints section) and cut its repetition from the two intro paragraphs.

Remove the 'When to use this skill' list, which duplicates the description's trigger examples verbatim, or replace it with the trigger list alone and drop the equivalent phrasing from the opening paragraph.

Add one short inline example in Workflow step 4 (e.g. a one-line classification and the control it maps to) so the classifier step is executable without opening the reference file first.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient, but contains avoidable repetition: "This Skill is not legal advice" appears three times (intro paragraph, purpose paragraph, and the NOT LEGAL ADVICE constraint), the purpose is stated twice in the opening, and the trigger list from the description is duplicated verbatim in "When to use this skill". Not anchor 2 because none of it explains concepts Claude already knows; not anchor 4 because the redundancy is real tightening material.

3 / 5

Actionability

As an instruction-only skill it gives concrete, executable direction: exact files to read in a specified order, how to record answers ("evidence reference or mark it `Unknown`"), an exact redaction token (`[REDACTED_SECRET]`), what to check in code review, what the report must contain, and named control categories to recommend. It stays at 4 rather than 5 because no inline example of a classification outcome or control pattern is given — everything concrete is deferred to the reference files.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Five clearly numbered, well-sequenced steps with several explicit checkpoints: "Stop and escalate immediately if prohibited-practice signals are identified", "Check for gaps between recorded answers and implementation evidence", and "Do not start implementation review until the chapters summary... are understood". Missing a 5 because there is no explicit validate-and-iterate loop on the final report, and the checkpoints are mostly gates rather than error-recovery feedback loops.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The SKILL.md body is a genuine overview that defers all detail to four real, verified bundle files (chapters summary, engineering examples, questionnaire, report template), each introduced with a descriptive link and a stated purpose, and each re-referenced at the exact workflow step where it is needed. References are one level deep and clearly signaled.

5 / 5

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16

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20

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Description

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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 well-crafted description with an explicit "Use when" clause, concrete trigger examples, good natural keyword coverage, and a clearly distinct Java + EU AI Act niche. Its main weakness is that the "what" is framed as needing "regulatory awareness" rather than naming the skill's concrete outputs.

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Specificity

The description lists several concrete action types via its trigger requests — "Review a Java AI system for EU AI Act controls", "Design governance for an AI agent", "Add human oversight and auditability to LLM workflows", "Assess RAG or model-driven decision support" — with a clearly named domain. It falls short of 5 because the core capability statement ("need EU AI Act regulatory awareness") is abstract and the actual outputs (classification, control recommendations, review report) are never named.

4 / 5

Completeness

The "when" is explicit and strong: "Use when reviewing, designing, or modifying Java enterprise systems that use AI..." plus four concrete example trigger requests. The "what" is present but weaker — "need EU AI Act regulatory awareness" tells what context applies, not what the skill actually does, so it sits at anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural keyword coverage: "AI", "LLMs", "AI agents", "RAG", "tool calling", "workflow automation", "decision support", "human oversight", "auditability", "EU AI Act" — terms users would plausibly say. A few natural variations are missing (e.g. "Spring AI", "compliance", "GenAI", "regulatory review"), keeping it below anchor 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche at the intersection of "Java enterprise systems", "AI/agents/RAG", and "EU AI Act" — a combination unlikely to be claimed by another skill, with distinct trigger phrases. Overlap with generic AI-governance skills is minimal.

5 / 5

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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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relative_links

Relative link issues: 2 deeper-than-1-level

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referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 6 deeper-than-1-level

Warning

Total

14

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16

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