creating-ansible-playbooks
Execute use when you need to work with Ansible automation. This skill provides Ansible playbook creation with comprehensive guidance and automation. Trigger with phrases like "create Ansible playbook", "automate with Ansible", or "configure with Ansible".
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./plugins/devops/ansible-playbook-creator/skills/creating-ansible-playbooks/SKILL.mdQuality
Discovery
89%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 adequately identifies the Ansible domain and provides explicit trigger phrases, making it functional for skill selection. However, it lacks specificity in concrete actions beyond playbook creation—terms like 'comprehensive guidance' are vague padding. The description would benefit from listing more specific capabilities (e.g., inventory management, role creation, task debugging).
Suggestions
Replace 'comprehensive guidance and automation' with specific concrete actions like 'create playbooks, manage inventories, define roles, configure hosts, and debug tasks'.
Use third-person declarative voice consistently—change 'Execute use when you need to work with' to something like 'Creates and manages Ansible playbooks for infrastructure automation.'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | The description mentions 'Ansible playbook creation' and 'automation' but doesn't list multiple specific concrete actions beyond creation. Terms like 'comprehensive guidance' are vague filler rather than specific capabilities. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | The description answers both 'what' (Ansible playbook creation and automation) and 'when' (explicit trigger phrases like 'create Ansible playbook', 'automate with Ansible'). It has a clear 'Use when' equivalent with 'Trigger with phrases like...'. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes natural trigger phrases users would say: 'create Ansible playbook', 'automate with Ansible', 'configure with Ansible', and the general term 'Ansible automation'. These cover common user phrasings well. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Ansible is a distinct domain with specific terminology. The triggers are clearly scoped to Ansible automation, making it unlikely to conflict with other skills like general configuration management or other automation tools. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
62%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill provides a well-structured workflow for Ansible playbook creation with good validation steps and a useful error handling table. However, it significantly lacks concrete, executable code examples—no sample playbook YAML, no template snippets, no role structure examples—which undermines its actionability for a code-generation skill. Some verbosity in explaining Ansible concepts Claude already knows could be trimmed to make room for actual code.
Suggestions
Add at least one complete, copy-paste-ready Ansible playbook example (e.g., a minimal Nginx provisioning playbook) to dramatically improve actionability.
Include a concrete role directory tree example and a sample Jinja2 template snippet to make the role extraction guidance (step 4) actionable.
Remove or condense the Overview explanation of what Ansible does and the Prerequisites list of obvious requirements to save tokens for more valuable content.
Replace the natural language 'Examples' section with actual input/output pairs showing a request and the resulting playbook YAML.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is reasonably structured but includes some unnecessary verbosity. The Overview section explains what Ansible does (SSH-based agentless automation) which Claude already knows. The Prerequisites section lists basic requirements that are somewhat obvious. The Examples section lists natural language prompts rather than concrete code examples, adding tokens without much value. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The instructions provide a clear sequence of steps and mention specific commands like `ansible-lint` and `ansible-playbook --check --diff`, but critically lack any concrete code examples—no sample playbook YAML, no role directory structure snippet, no Jinja2 template example. The 'Examples' section contains only natural language prompts rather than executable playbook code. For a skill about creating Ansible playbooks, the absence of a single copy-paste-ready playbook is a significant gap. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 9-step workflow is clearly sequenced from discovery through creation to validation. It includes explicit validation checkpoints (step 8: ansible-lint and dry run, step 9: idempotency testing), and the error handling table provides a feedback loop for common failure modes with specific solutions. The workflow covers the full lifecycle appropriately. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is organized into clear sections (Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions, Output, Error Handling, Examples, Resources), which is good. However, with no bundle files, all content is inline in a single file. The error handling table and detailed prerequisites could potentially be split out. The Resources section links to external docs but there are no internal references to supplementary files for advanced topics like vault encryption or role development patterns. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 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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