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

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No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Passed

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Quality

Content

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. It claims to create production-ready alerting rules for Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty but provides zero concrete configuration examples, no executable code, no PromQL expressions, and no platform-specific guidance. Multiple sections (Prerequisites, Instructions, Output, Error Handling, Resources) contain placeholder text that adds no value.

Suggestions

Add concrete, copy-paste-ready examples of Prometheus alerting rules (YAML with PromQL expressions), Grafana alert configurations, and PagerDuty routing policies instead of abstract descriptions.

Replace the generic 'Instructions' and 'Output' sections with actual templates showing expected input parameters and generated output format (e.g., a complete alerting rule YAML file).

Add validation steps: how to test alert rules with `promtool check rules`, how to verify Grafana alert provisioning, and how to dry-run PagerDuty escalation policies.

Remove all boilerplate sections that explain concepts Claude already knows (what alerting is, what thresholds are) and replace with specific threshold calculation formulas or statistical methods (e.g., using percentile-based thresholds with concrete PromQL).

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The content is highly verbose, filled with explanations of concepts Claude already knows (what alerting is, what thresholds are, what routing means). Sections like 'Overview', 'How It Works', 'When to Use This Skill', 'Prerequisites', 'Instructions', 'Output', 'Error Handling', and 'Resources' are almost entirely filler with no actionable specifics. The generic boilerplate sections at the end ('The skill produces structured output relevant to the task') are particularly wasteful.	1 / 3
Actionability	Despite claiming to create 'production-ready alerting rules for Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty', there is zero executable code, no concrete YAML/configuration examples, no actual PromQL expressions, no Grafana alert JSON, and no PagerDuty API calls. The examples describe what the skill 'will do' in abstract terms rather than showing actual output. The Instructions section is entirely generic ('Invoke this skill when the trigger conditions are met').	1 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The 'How It Works' section lists four abstract steps but provides no concrete commands, validation checkpoints, or feedback loops. There is no guidance on how to validate generated alert rules, test them against real metrics, or verify routing configurations. For a skill involving production alerting infrastructure, the complete absence of validation steps is a critical gap.	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. Sections that could be separate (runbook templates, example configurations, platform-specific guides for Prometheus vs Grafana vs PagerDuty) are all absent. The 'Resources' section points to nothing specific ('Project documentation', 'Related skills and commands').	1 / 3
	Total	4 / 12 Passed

Description

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.

The description starts with a reasonably specific focus on alerting rules and performance monitoring but is undermined by a truncated middle section and a contradictory, overly generic 'Use when' clause. The mismatch between the domain-specific content and the broad trigger terms creates high conflict risk and reduces the skill's ability to be correctly selected from a pool of skills.

Suggestions

Replace the generic 'Use when generating or creating new content' clause with alerting-specific guidance, 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 has complete information for skill selection.

Remove overly broad trigger terms like 'generate', 'create', and 'scaffold' and replace with domain-specific terms like 'alerting', 'monitoring rules', 'thresholds', 'performance alerts'.

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') rather than specific to alerting. 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.	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 alerting-specific content earlier in the description.	1 / 3
	Total	7 / 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: 00c0702

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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