generating-helm-charts

Execute use when generating Helm charts for Kubernetes applications. Trigger with phrases like "create Helm chart", "generate chart for app", "package Kubernetes deployment", or "helm template". Produces production-ready charts with Chart.yaml, values.yaml, templates, and best practices for multi-environment deployments.

Quality

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Quality

Content

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

The body is well-structured and token-efficient, but it stays at an instructional level without executable template examples, places validation only at the end of the workflow, and leaves the bundled scripts/assets unreferenced (while the bundle READMEs advertise files that are missing). It is solid but incomplete on actionability, feedback loops, and disclosure.

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Add at least one complete, copy-paste-ready example — a minimal Chart.yaml, values.yaml, and a deployment.yaml template snippet — so the guidance is executable rather than descriptive.

Promote validation from a final step to an explicit checkpoint with a feedback loop: e.g., "Run `helm lint .`; if errors appear, fix and re-lint before rendering with `helm template`.")

Reference the actual bundle files from the body — point to scripts/helm_create.py for scaffolding and assets/values_schema.json for values validation — and remove or fulfill the bundle-README entries for files that do not exist (helm_validate.py, helm_deploy.sh, chart_template/, example_charts/).

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean — terse numbered instructions and tables with no padding explaining what Helm or Kubernetes is — assuming Claude's competence; the only minor redundancy is the Output list echoing the Instructions, which does not meaningfully bloat it.	3 / 3
Actionability	Concrete commands ("helm lint .", "helm template . --values values-prod.yaml", "helm dependency update") and specific field names ("apiVersion: v2", "runAsNonRoot: true") are present, but there are no complete copy-paste-ready examples — no full Chart.yaml, values.yaml, or template snippets — leaving key details implicit.	2 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear 10-step sequence exists and includes a validation step (step 10), but validation sits only at the end with no explicit validate→fix→retry checkpoint within the flow; recovery is delegated to the Error Handling table rather than an embedded feedback loop.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Sections are well-organized, but the body never references or signals the real bundle files (scripts/helm_create.py, assets/values_schema.json), and the bundle READMEs list files (helm_validate.py, helm_deploy.sh, chart_template/, example_charts/) that do not actually exist — a missed and partially broken disclosure structure.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

Description

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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, well-triggered, complete, and distinct: it names concrete chart artifacts, lists natural trigger phrases, and explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it. Minor awkwardness in the leading "Execute use when" phrasing does not undermine its function as an explicit trigger clause.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete outputs and actions — "Produces production-ready charts with Chart.yaml, values.yaml, templates" — naming specific artifacts rather than abstract language.	3 / 3
Completeness	Answers both what ("Produces production-ready charts with Chart.yaml, values.yaml, templates, and best practices for multi-environment deployments") and when ("Execute use when generating Helm charts for Kubernetes applications" plus explicit trigger phrases), satisfying the explicit-trigger requirement.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural user phrasings are explicitly enumerated — "create Helm chart", "generate chart for app", "package Kubernetes deployment", "helm template" — covering common variations a user would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	A clear, narrow niche (Helm charts for Kubernetes) with distinct triggers that are unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

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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
Path: plugins/devops/helm-chart-generator/skills/generating-helm-charts/SKILL.md
Commit: 4c47e33

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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