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exa-advanced-troubleshooting

Apply advanced debugging techniques for hard-to-diagnose Exa issues. Use when standard troubleshooting fails, investigating latency spikes, or preparing evidence bundles for Exa support escalation. Trigger with phrases like "exa hard bug", "exa mystery error", "exa deep debug", "difficult exa issue", "exa latency spike".

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Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

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SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

65%

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

The content is highly actionable with real, executable code and a useful error-handling table, but it is verbose due to repeated boilerplate, lacks validation checkpoints in its batch operations, and keeps everything inline rather than using progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Refactor the layer-by-layer diagnostics into a single shared helper that runs each layer from a config array, eliminating the five-fold try/catch repetition.

Add explicit validation/feedback steps to the latency profiling and diagnostic workflows (e.g., check for all-FAIL results and surface a 'fix and re-run' loop).

Move the large diagnostic, latency-profiling, and content-retrieval scripts into separate files under scripts/ and reference them from SKILL.md so the main file stays a lean overview.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body mostly assumes Claude's competence and avoids explaining known concepts, but the layer-by-layer diagnostics repeats the identical try/catch boilerplate five times rather than using a shared helper, adding avoidable tokens.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable TypeScript using real exa-js methods (search, searchAndContents, findSimilar, getContents) with concrete parameters, plus a cause/solution error table — copy-paste ready.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The four steps are clearly sequenced, but the batch latency-profiling loop and diagnostics lack explicit validation or verify-fix-retry checkpoints; per the rubric, missing validation in batch operations caps this at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and all content — including large reusable diagnostic and profiling scripts — lives inline in SKILL.md rather than being split into scripts/ or references/ files; structure is present but content that should be separate is inline.

2 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Description

100%

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 is specific, complete, and distinctive, clearly stating both capabilities and explicit use-when triggers for a well-scoped Exa debugging niche. Minor weakness is that some trigger phrases read as invented keywords rather than natural user utterances.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names multiple concrete actions — 'advanced debugging techniques', 'investigating latency spikes', 'preparing evidence bundles for Exa support escalation' — matching the anchor for listing several specific actions.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers 'what' ('Apply advanced debugging techniques...') and 'when' ('Use when standard troubleshooting fails, investigating latency spikes, or preparing evidence bundles'), satisfying the anchor for both.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Provides five explicit trigger phrases ('exa hard bug', 'exa mystery error', 'exa deep debug', 'difficult exa issue', 'exa latency spike') giving broad coverage, though a few lean toward keyword-stuffed rather than fully natural user phrasing.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped tightly to 'Exa issues' with distinctive trigger phrases, creating a clear niche unlikely to collide with unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

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

14

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16

Passed

Repository
jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
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