exa-multi-env-setup

Configure Exa across development, staging, and production environments. Use when setting up multi-environment search pipelines, managing API key isolation, or configuring per-environment search limits and caching. Trigger with phrases like "exa environments", "exa staging", "exa dev prod", "exa environment setup", "exa multi-env".

Quality

77%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

Pending

No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Advisory

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Quality

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.

This is a well-structured skill description that clearly communicates its purpose, provides explicit trigger guidance, and occupies a distinct niche. Its main weakness is that the capability descriptions could be slightly more concrete (e.g., specifying exact configuration actions), but overall it performs strongly across all dimensions.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain (Exa multi-environment configuration) and some actions (setting up pipelines, managing API key isolation, configuring search limits and caching), but the actions are somewhat high-level rather than listing multiple concrete discrete operations.	2 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both 'what' (configure Exa across dev/staging/prod, manage API key isolation, configure per-environment search limits and caching) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when...' clause plus 'Trigger with phrases like...' guidance).	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Includes a strong set of natural trigger terms: 'exa environments', 'exa staging', 'exa dev prod', 'exa environment setup', 'exa multi-env'. These cover common variations a user would naturally say when needing this skill.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Highly distinctive — targets a very specific niche (Exa multi-environment configuration) with unique trigger terms like 'exa staging', 'exa dev prod' that are unlikely to conflict with other skills.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Implementation

64%

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

This is a solid, actionable skill with complete executable code examples covering the full multi-environment setup pipeline. Its main weaknesses are the lack of explicit validation checkpoints between steps (e.g., verifying API connectivity before proceeding to caching setup) and the monolithic structure that could benefit from splitting advanced topics like caching and CI/CD into separate files. The content is slightly verbose with some redundancy between the strategy table and the config code.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation checkpoints: after Step 1, instruct to run the health check to verify API key connectivity before proceeding to build the search service and cache layer.

Split the Redis cache layer (Step 3) and CI/CD configuration (Step 5) into separate referenced files to improve progressive disclosure and reduce the main file length.

Remove the prerequisites section and the overview explanation of what Exa charges — Claude already knows these basics and can infer them from the code.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The content is mostly efficient with good use of tables and code, but includes some unnecessary elements like the prerequisites section (Claude knows how to install npm packages) and the overview could be tighter. The environment strategy table partially duplicates information encoded in the config object. The health check function is somewhat boilerplate.	2 / 3
Actionability	All code examples are fully executable TypeScript with proper imports, types, and error handling. The env variable setup, CI/CD config, and Redis caching layer are all copy-paste ready with concrete file paths and complete implementations.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Steps are clearly sequenced from config through search service, caching, env vars, CI/CD, and health check. However, there are no explicit validation checkpoints — no step says 'verify your config works before proceeding' or 'run the health check to confirm connectivity before deploying.' The health check exists but isn't integrated into the workflow as a validation gate.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The content is well-structured with clear sections and a logical flow, but it's quite long (~150 lines of code) and could benefit from splitting the cache layer and CI/CD config into separate referenced files. The 'Next Steps' reference to `exa-deploy-integration` is good but the main content is monolithic.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 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: 70e9fa4

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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