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.
36
3%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
97%
1.02xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
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Discovery
7%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 extremely weak — it essentially just restates the skill name without describing any concrete capabilities, use cases, or meaningful trigger terms. It reads as a placeholder rather than a functional description. A user or Claude selecting from multiple skills would have no idea what this skill actually does or when to use it.
Suggestions
Add specific concrete actions the skill performs, e.g., 'Creates, configures, and manages GCP Cloud Monitoring alerting policies, notification channels, and uptime checks.'
Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with natural trigger terms like 'GCP alerts', 'Stackdriver monitoring', 'metric thresholds', 'uptime checks', 'notification channels', 'alerting policies'.
Remove the redundant duplicate trigger term and replace with diverse natural language variations users might actually say when needing this skill.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | The description provides no concrete actions. It only states it's an 'auto-activating skill for GCP Skills' without describing what it actually does — no verbs like 'creates alerts', 'configures monitoring', 'analyzes metrics', etc. | 1 / 3 |
Completeness | The description fails to answer 'what does this do' beyond naming itself, and the 'when' clause is just a redundant repetition of the skill name rather than meaningful trigger guidance. Both what and when are very weak. | 1 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | The trigger terms are just 'cloud monitoring alert' repeated twice. There are no natural variations a user might say such as 'GCP alerting', 'Stackdriver', 'monitoring policy', 'uptime check', 'notification channel', or 'metric threshold'. | 1 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The mention of 'GCP' and 'cloud monitoring alert' provides some domain specificity that distinguishes it from generic skills, but the lack of concrete actions means it could easily overlap with other GCP or monitoring-related skills. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 5 / 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 an empty shell—it contains only meta-descriptions about what it could do without any actual technical content. There are no GCP monitoring commands, no gcloud CLI examples, no Terraform/YAML configurations, no API references, and no concrete guidance of any kind. It fails on every dimension of the rubric.
Suggestions
Add concrete, executable examples such as `gcloud alpha monitoring policies create` commands or Terraform resource definitions for creating monitoring alert policies.
Include a clear workflow with steps: define metric, create alert condition, configure notification channel, validate alert fires correctly, with explicit validation checkpoints.
Remove all meta-description sections ('Purpose', 'When to Use', 'Capabilities', 'Example Triggers') and replace with actual technical content—code snippets, configuration examples, and specific GCP monitoring concepts.
Add references to related detailed files (e.g., notification channels guide, metric types reference) or link to specific GCP documentation for progressive disclosure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is entirely filler and meta-description. It explains what the skill does in abstract terms without providing any actual technical content. Every section describes rather than instructs, wasting tokens on information that provides no value. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | There is zero concrete guidance—no code, no commands, no specific configurations, no examples of actual monitoring alert setup. Phrases like 'Provides step-by-step guidance' and 'Generates production-ready code' are promises without delivery. | 1 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | No workflow is defined at all. There are no steps, no sequences, no validation checkpoints. The skill merely states it can provide 'step-by-step guidance' without actually containing any steps. | 1 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is a flat, monolithic block of meta-descriptions with no references to detailed materials, no links to related files, and no structured navigation to deeper content. | 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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