cloud-monitoring-alert
Cloud Monitoring Alert - Auto-activating skill for GCP Skills. Triggers on: cloud monitoring alert, cloud monitoring alert Part of the GCP Skills skill category.
41
Quality
11%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
97%
1.02xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
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Discovery
22%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This description is severely lacking in substance - it functions more as a category label than a useful skill description. It fails to explain what the skill actually does, listing no concrete actions or capabilities. The only useful element is the trigger term 'cloud monitoring alert', but even this is redundantly repeated.
Suggestions
Add specific actions the skill performs, e.g., 'Creates and configures GCP Cloud Monitoring alerting policies, sets metric thresholds, manages notification channels'
Expand trigger terms to include natural variations: 'stackdriver alerts', 'GCP alerting', 'monitoring notifications', 'metric thresholds', 'alert policies'
Add a proper 'Use when...' clause explaining scenarios: 'Use when setting up monitoring alerts, configuring notification thresholds, or managing alerting policies in Google Cloud Platform'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | The description contains no concrete actions - it only states it's an 'auto-activating skill' without explaining what it actually does. There are no verbs describing capabilities like 'creates alerts', 'configures thresholds', or 'monitors metrics'. | 1 / 3 |
Completeness | The description fails to answer 'what does this do' - it only identifies itself as a skill category member. While it has a 'Triggers on' clause, there's no explanation of what actions the skill performs when triggered. | 1 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Contains 'cloud monitoring alert' as a trigger term (repeated twice), which is a relevant keyword users might say. However, it misses common variations like 'GCP alerts', 'stackdriver', 'monitoring notifications', 'alerting policy', or 'metric alerts'. | 2 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The 'cloud monitoring alert' trigger is somewhat specific to GCP monitoring, but without describing actual capabilities, it could conflict with other GCP or general monitoring skills. The category mention 'GCP Skills' helps somewhat with distinctiveness. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 6 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
0%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill is essentially a placeholder with no actionable content. It describes what the skill should do in abstract terms but provides no actual instructions, code examples, or concrete guidance for creating cloud monitoring alerts in GCP. The entire content could be replaced with a few lines of actual gcloud commands or console steps.
Suggestions
Add concrete gcloud CLI commands for creating monitoring alerts (e.g., `gcloud alpha monitoring policies create --policy-from-file=policy.json`)
Include a minimal working example of an alert policy JSON configuration with required fields
Provide step-by-step workflow: 1) Define metric, 2) Set threshold, 3) Configure notification channel, 4) Validate alert fires correctly
Remove all generic boilerplate text ('provides automated assistance', 'follows best practices') and replace with actual technical content
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is padded with generic boilerplate that provides no actual value. Phrases like 'provides automated assistance' and 'follows industry best practices' are vague filler that Claude doesn't need. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | There is zero concrete guidance - no code, no commands, no specific steps. The skill describes what it does abstractly but never shows how to actually create or configure a cloud monitoring alert. | 1 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | No workflow is provided whatsoever. There are no steps, no sequence, and no validation checkpoints for what should be a multi-step process involving GCP console or gcloud CLI commands. | 1 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is a monolithic block of generic text with no references to detailed documentation, no links to GCP-specific resources, and no structured navigation to related materials. | 1 / 3 |
Total | 4 / 12 Passed |
Validation
81%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 9 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
allowed_tools_field | 'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s) | Warning |
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 9 / 11 Passed | |
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