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exa-performance-tuning

Optimize Exa API performance with search type selection, caching, and parallelization. Use when experiencing slow responses, implementing caching strategies, or optimizing request throughput for Exa integrations. Trigger with phrases like "exa performance", "optimize exa", "exa latency", "exa caching", "exa slow", "exa fast".

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

86%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A highly actionable, well-structured skill with executable examples throughout. Could be tightened slightly in a few explanatory comments and would benefit from explicit before/after measurement checkpoints.

Suggestions

Trim redundant inline comments that restate obvious behavior (e.g. 'Run independent queries concurrently instead of sequentially') to improve token efficiency.

Add an explicit validation checkpoint in the workflow, such as measuring latency before and after applying each lever to confirm the gain.

Consider splitting the large performance-comparison and error-handling tables into a reference file to keep SKILL.md as a lean overview, though the current inline placement is acceptable for this size.

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Conciseness

Mostly lean and code-forward with compact tables, but a few inline comments re-explain concepts Claude already knows ('Each content option adds latency', 'Run independent queries concurrently instead of sequentially').

4 / 5

Actionability

Six numbered steps each ship complete, copy-paste-ready TypeScript, supplemented by performance-comparison and error-handling tables covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Steps 1-6 form a clear, ordered sequence with no destructive/batch operations requiring validation caps, but explicit checkpoints (e.g. measure before/after, verify cache hit) are only implicit.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist; the well-organized single-file structure with clear section headers, doc links in Resources, and Next-Steps pointers to sibling skills satisfies the simple-skill exception.

5 / 5

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20

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Description

95%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that clearly states what the skill does, when to use it, and lists natural trigger phrases. Minor specificity gap in not mentioning all optimization levers covered by the body.

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Specificity

Names the domain and several concrete actions ('search type selection, caching, and parallelization'), but omits other levers the body covers (result-count reduction, content-scope control), leaving minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Optimize Exa API performance with search type selection, caching, and parallelization') and when ('Use when experiencing slow responses...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Provides six natural trigger phrases a user would actually say ('exa performance', 'optimize exa', 'exa latency', 'exa caching', 'exa slow', 'exa fast').

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Has a clear niche (Exa API performance tuning) with 'exa'-prefixed triggers that are unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, minimizing conflict risk.

5 / 5

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19

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20

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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

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allowed_tools_field

'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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Total

14

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16

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