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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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Quality

Content

87%

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

The content is lean, highly actionable, and well-organized with executable code throughout. Its main gap is the absence of explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops in the tuning workflow, capping workflow clarity at 2.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation checkpoints to the workflow (e.g., 'measure latency before and after each change; only keep changes that meet the budget') so steps form a validate->adjust->retry loop rather than a one-way ladder.

Fold the reactive Error Handling table into the relevant steps as inline guidance (e.g., if a search exceeds the budget, switch type and retry) to embed error recovery in the workflow sequence.

Add a brief 'Measure first' step at the start directing Claude to quantify current latency before applying optimizations, so tuning is evidence-driven rather than assumed.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean: no preamble explaining what Exa or caching is, jumping straight to a latency table and executable code with tight, performance-justified inline comments. Every token earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

Six steps of fully executable TypeScript plus concrete performance-comparison and error-handling tables give copy-paste-ready, specific guidance rather than pseudocode.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Steps 1-6 are clearly sequenced as an escalation ladder, but there are no validation checkpoints or validate->fix->retry feedback loops embedded in the workflow; error handling is a separate reactive table rather than explicit checkpoints.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files are needed or claimed, and the body is well-organized into Overview, latency table, six steps, Performance Comparison, Error Handling, Resources, and Next Steps, with only one-level-deep sibling/external references clearly signaled.

3 / 3

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11

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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 concise, third-person, and fully covers both capability and usage triggers with natural, Exa-specific phrasing. It is a strong, well-scoped description with no vague fluff or over-claims.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions ('search type selection, caching, and parallelization') scoped to the Exa API, matching the 'lists multiple specific concrete actions' anchor rather than the partial-coverage anchor at 2.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (optimize Exa API performance via search type selection, caching, parallelization) and 'when' ('Use when experiencing slow responses, implementing caching strategies, or optimizing request throughput').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Provides natural trigger phrases users would actually say ('exa performance', 'optimize exa', 'exa latency', 'exa caching', 'exa slow', 'exa fast'), giving good coverage rather than just jargon.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clearly scoped to 'Exa API' / 'Exa integrations' with Exa-specific trigger phrases, creating a clear niche unlikely to conflict with other 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

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

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Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
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