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Automate database backup processes with scheduling, compression, and encryption. Supports PostgreSQL (pg_dump), MySQL (mysqldump), MongoDB (mongodump), and SQLite. Generates production-ready backup scripts with retention policies and restore procedures. Trigger: "automate database backups", "schedule backups", "create backup script", "disaster recovery". Use when working with automating database backups. Trigger with 'automating', 'database', 'backups'.

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Quality

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Impact

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Quality

Content

72%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is highly actionable with executable code and a clear step sequence backed by real bundle files. Its main weaknesses are generic filler sections that hurt conciseness and a missing validation feedback loop in the workflow.

Suggestions

Remove the generic Overview, Prerequisites, and Examples sections: the Overview repeats the description, Prerequisites lists vague PostgreSQL-only items despite four supported databases, and the Examples are templated filler.

Add an explicit validate->fix->retry loop to Step 4 (e.g. "if validation fails, review the error, regenerate the backup, and re-validate") to satisfy the feedback-loop expectation for database operations.

Tighten the Quick Start by deferring full inline backup scripts to the referenced generator scripts, reducing overlap with the Instructions section.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The core (scripts, steps, tables) is efficient, but the trailing Overview, Prerequisites, and Examples sections are generic filler that add no concrete value and repeat the description.

2 / 3

Actionability

It provides fully executable backup scripts and specific python3 commands with concrete flags (e.g. --db-type, --schedule) that are copy-paste ready.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The five steps are clearly sequenced and include a Validate step, but there is no explicit validate->fix->retry feedback loop, which the rubric requires to exceed 2 for database operations.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Detailed material is split into real one-level-deep bundle files (scripts/*.py and references/*.md), all of which exist, and they are clearly signaled in the Resources section.

3 / 3

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12

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Description

100%

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 in third person, covers natural trigger terms, and explicitly answers both what the skill does and when to use it. It is a clear, distinct niche with low conflict risk.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Automate database backup processes with scheduling, compression, and encryption" and "Generates production-ready backup scripts with retention policies and restore procedures" list multiple specific concrete actions rather than vague language.

3 / 3

Completeness

It answers what (automate backups with scheduling, compression, encryption, retention, restore) and when via the explicit "Use when working with automating database backups" clause plus a trigger list.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Trigger terms "automate database backups", "schedule backups", "create backup script", and "disaster recovery" are natural phrases a user would say when needing this skill.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Database backup automation is a clear niche with distinct triggers, making it unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

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.

Validation14 / 16 Passed

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Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
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