granola-install-auth

Install and configure Granola AI meeting notes with calendar and audio permissions. Use when setting up Granola for the first time, connecting Google/Outlook calendars, granting macOS Screen Recording permission, or configuring Windows audio capture. Trigger: "install granola", "setup granola", "granola calendar", "granola permissions".

Quality

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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.

A well-structured, actionable install guide with concrete commands, a clear sequenced workflow, and a verification step. Its main weakness is explanatory prose about what Granola is and how it works that Claude does not need.

Suggestions

Trim the Overview and 'Granola Architecture (How It Works)' sections: drop the product description and the ASCII diagram, keeping only the permission/model facts Claude cannot infer (e.g., that macOS bundles system audio under Screen Recording).

Remove redundant reassurances — 'Granola does not record your screen' and the architecture's 'No bot joins your meeting' repeat the Overview; state the audio-capture caveat once near the permission step.

Move the error-handling table closer to the relevant steps (e.g., the 'No audio captured' row under Step 3, 'Calendar not syncing' under Step 4) so recovery guidance appears where the failure would occur.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient with concrete steps and tables, but the Overview ('the AI notepad that captures meeting audio directly from your device (no bot joins the call), transcribes with GPT-4o/Claude') and the Architecture section re-explain product behavior Claude already knows, and the 'no bot' / 'does not record your screen' points are restated.	2 / 3
Actionability	Executable commands throughout — 'brew install --cask granola', 'pgrep -l Granola', 'defaults read .../Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString' — plus exact macOS/Windows menu paths and a copy-paste-ready error table.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear six-step sequence with an explicit verification checkpoint in Step 5 ('confirm Granola is running', 'Verify the live transcription indicator appears') and an error-handling table providing feedback loops for recovery.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	No bundle files exist; the single self-contained SKILL.md is organized into clear sections (Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions, Output, Error Handling, Architecture, Resources) with external doc links one level deep — appropriate for a skill of this size.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 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.

A strong, third-person description that states concrete capabilities, gives explicit 'Use when' guidance, and supplies natural trigger phrases. It is concise without padding and clearly distinguishes the skill from others.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Install and configure Granola AI meeting notes with calendar and audio permissions', connecting Google/Outlook calendars, granting macOS Screen Recording permission, configuring Windows audio capture.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both what (install/configure Granola with calendar and audio permissions) and when via an explicit 'Use when setting up...' clause plus a dedicated Trigger line.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Explicit natural phrases a user would say: 'install granola', 'setup granola', 'granola calendar', 'granola permissions' — good coverage of common variations.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Granola-specific niche with distinct product-named triggers; very unlikely to fire for any other skill.	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/saas-packs/granola-pack/skills/granola-install-auth/SKILL.md
Commit: 4c47e33

Reviewed: 1 day ago

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