creating-alerting-rules

Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring. it is triggered when the user requests to "create alerts", "define monitoring rules", or "set up alerting". the skill helps define thresholds, rou... Use when generating or creating new content. Trigger with phrases like 'generate', 'create', or 'scaffold'.

Quality

21%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

Pending

No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Discovery

42%

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 suffers from a truncated body and a contradictory, overly generic 'Use when' clause that undermines the more specific alerting/monitoring content. The mismatch between the domain-specific first half and the catch-all second half creates high conflict risk and confusion about when this skill should be selected. Additionally, the description uses second person ('the user') and imperative voice ('Execute this skill') rather than third person.

Suggestions

Remove the generic 'Use when generating or creating new content' clause and replace it with monitoring-specific triggers, e.g., 'Use when the user asks to create alerts, define monitoring thresholds, set up alerting rules, or configure performance monitoring.'

Fix the truncated description to fully list capabilities (e.g., 'define thresholds, routing rules, notification channels') so Claude can accurately match this skill.

Remove overly broad trigger terms like 'generate', 'create', and 'scaffold' that would cause this skill to conflict with many other skills, and instead use domain-specific terms like 'alerting', 'monitoring rules', 'performance thresholds'.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	It mentions some specific actions like 'create intelligent alerting rules', 'define thresholds', and 'proactive performance monitoring', but the description is truncated ('rou...') and the appended generic clause ('generating or creating new content') contradicts and dilutes the specificity.	2 / 3
Completeness	It partially answers 'what' (create alerting rules, define thresholds) and has a 'Use when' clause, but the 'Use when' is generic ('generating or creating new content') and doesn't match the actual skill purpose. The description is also truncated, leaving the 'what' incomplete.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Includes some relevant trigger terms like 'create alerts', 'define monitoring rules', 'set up alerting', but then adds overly generic triggers ('generate', 'create', 'scaffold') that would match far too broadly and are not specific to alerting/monitoring.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The generic 'Use when generating or creating new content' with triggers like 'generate', 'create', or 'scaffold' would conflict with virtually any content-creation skill. This severely undermines distinctiveness despite the monitoring-specific language earlier.	1 / 3
	Total	7 / 12 Passed

Implementation

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

This skill is almost entirely generic boilerplate with no actionable content specific to alerting rule creation. It claims to produce production-ready Prometheus/Grafana/PagerDuty rules but contains zero code examples, no PromQL expressions, no YAML configurations, and no concrete templates. The majority of sections (Prerequisites, Instructions, Error Handling, Output) are placeholder text that could apply to any skill.

Suggestions

Add concrete, executable examples: include actual Prometheus alerting rule YAML with PromQL expressions, Grafana alert JSON, and PagerDuty routing configuration snippets that Claude can adapt.

Remove all generic boilerplate sections (Prerequisites, Instructions, Output, Error Handling) that contain no skill-specific information and waste tokens.

Define a clear workflow with validation steps, e.g., 'validate PromQL syntax with promtool check rules', and include feedback loops for when validation fails.

Replace the abstract 'Examples' section (which describes what the skill 'will do') with concrete input/output pairs showing the actual alerting rule YAML or JSON that should be generated for a given request.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Extremely verbose with many sections that explain obvious concepts Claude already knows (e.g., 'How It Works', 'When to Use This Skill', 'Prerequisites', 'Instructions', 'Error Handling'). The 'Instructions' section is entirely generic boilerplate ('Invoke this skill when the trigger conditions are met'). Multiple sections add no actionable value and waste tokens.	1 / 3
Actionability	Despite claiming to create 'production-ready alerting rules for Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty,' there is zero executable code, no concrete PromQL expressions, no YAML alert rule examples, no Grafana JSON, and no PagerDuty API calls. The examples describe what the skill 'will do' rather than showing actual output. Everything is abstract description rather than concrete instruction.	1 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The 4-step 'How It Works' section is vague and descriptive rather than prescriptive. There are no validation checkpoints, no feedback loops, no concrete commands to run, and no verification steps. The 'Instructions' section is completely generic ('Invoke this skill when the trigger conditions are met') and provides no real workflow guidance.	1 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The content is a monolithic wall of text with no references to external files, no bundle files, and no structured navigation. Content that could be split (e.g., runbook templates, example alert configurations per platform) is neither inline nor referenced. The 'Resources' section lists only vague placeholders ('Project documentation', 'Related skills and commands').	1 / 3
	Total	4 / 12 Passed

Validation

81%

Warnings & errors only

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

Repository: jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
Commit: 3a2d27d

Reviewed: 1 day ago

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