generating-api-docs

Create comprehensive API documentation with examples, authentication guides, and SDKs. Use when creating comprehensive API documentation. Trigger with phrases like "generate API docs", "create API documentation", or "document the API".

Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

57%

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

A well-structured body with clear sequencing and good progressive disclosure to real reference files, but it relies on outcome-describing prose without executable commands and lacks validation checkpoints after step 1. Some inline content duplicates the reference files.

Suggestions

Add executable inline snippets -- e.g., the Redoc CLI build command or a minimal redoc.yaml -- so the generate/deploy steps are copy-paste ready instead of outcome descriptions.

Tighten redundancy: keep the inline Error Handling table and Examples as brief summaries and defer full detail to errors.md/examples.md, since that content already lives in the references.

Insert explicit validation/feedback checkpoints later in the workflow -- e.g., lint/test generated code examples against a staging API after step 4, and verify the search index and Try-It CORS before deployment in step 8.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient and task-specific (no basic-concept explanation), but the inline Error Handling table and Examples section overlap with references/errors.md and references/examples.md, so it could be tightened; not a 1 because it avoids padding with concepts Claude knows, not a 3 because of the duplicated content and a dense Overview sentence.	2 / 3
Actionability	Steps name concrete tools (Redoc, Stoplight, Swagger UI), paths, languages, and an error table with causes/solutions, but there is no executable code or command in the body and steps describe desired outcomes (e.g., 'Generate interactive documentation using Redoc... with Try It') rather than copy-paste commands; not a 3 because it is not copy-paste ready, not a 1 because guidance is concrete and specific.	2 / 3
Workflow Clarity	An 8-step numbered sequence is clear and step 1 includes a completeness audit, but later steps lack explicit validate-fix-retry checkpoints, and batch operations (examples for every endpoint in 4 languages) cap clarity at 2; not a 3 because feedback loops are missing beyond step 1, not a 1 because the sequence is well-ordered.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body is an overview pointing to three real, one-level-deep, clearly signaled references (implementation.md, errors.md, examples.md, all verified present); not a 2 because references are clearly signaled and well-organized rather than poorly linked or deeply nested.	3 / 3
	Total	9 / 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.

A strong description: it states concrete deliverables, provides an explicit 'Use when' clause, lists natural trigger phrases, and occupies a distinct niche. Minor fluff ('comprehensive' used twice) does not undermine specificity or completeness.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Quotes 'Create comprehensive API documentation with examples, authentication guides, and SDKs' -- it lists multiple concrete deliverables (examples, auth guides, SDKs), matching the anchor for several specific concrete actions; not a 2 because the deliverables are specific rather than merely naming a domain.	3 / 3
Completeness	It answers both what ('Create comprehensive API documentation with examples, authentication guides, and SDKs') and when via an explicit 'Use when creating comprehensive API documentation' clause plus trigger phrases; not a 2 because the 'Use when' clause is present, satisfying the cap-breaker.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Quotes 'generate API docs', 'create API documentation', or 'document the API' -- these are natural phrases a user would say, giving good coverage; not a 2 because common variations are present rather than missing.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	API documentation generation is a clear niche with distinct triggers ('generate API docs', 'document the API'), unlikely to collide with other skills; not a 2 because the domain and triggers are specific rather than generic.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

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 — 14 / 16 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	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
Commit: 2cafb23

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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