instantly-local-dev-loop

Configure Instantly.ai local development with mock server and test workflows. Use when setting up a dev environment, testing API calls without sending emails, or building integration tests against Instantly endpoints. Trigger with phrases like "instantly dev setup", "test instantly locally", "instantly mock server", "instantly development environment".

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

65%

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

The content delivers highly actionable, executable code across a clear five-step workflow, but it is a monolithic inline skill with no validation checkpoints for its destructive/batch API operations and a couple of broken/empty URL references. Tightening the Overview and adding explicit verification steps would lift the weaker dimensions.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation/verification checkpoints to the workflow (e.g., assert the mock server responds 200 before running tests, and verify a webhook is registered before firing the test event) since steps create/delete API resources and register webhooks.

Fix the empty mock-server URL placeholder in the Overview and the missing link on the 'Instantly Mock Server' Resources entry so references are usable.

Trim the Overview sentence that restates 'testing without sending real emails or consuming API limits' since it duplicates the description and the .env config that follows already conveys mock-mode behavior.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly lean executable code, but the Overview restates context already in the description ('Instantly provides a mock server at `` for testing without sending real emails or consuming API limits') with an empty/broken mock-server URL placeholder, adding tokens Claude does not need.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides complete, copy-paste-ready TypeScript and bash with explicit file paths, env vars, and concrete curl calls (config.ts, instantly.ts client, vitest tests, ngrok + webhook registration), fully executable rather than pseudocode.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear five-step sequence is present, but there are no explicit validation/verification checkpoints or feedback loops despite destructive/batch operations (creating/deleting lead lists, registering webhooks, mutating external API state), which the rubric caps at 2.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Content is well-sectioned but monolithic — everything is inline with no references to separate bundle files, and the Resources section contains a broken entry ('Instantly Mock Server' with no link) alongside the empty mock-server URL in the Overview.	2 / 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.

The description is well-crafted: it states concrete capabilities, gives an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause, and lists natural trigger phrases, all in concise third person. It fully satisfies the what/when/trigger guidance with no vague fluff.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain (Instantly.ai local dev) and lists multiple concrete actions: 'Configure Instantly.ai local development with mock server and test workflows' (configure dev, mock server, test workflows), matching the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Configure Instantly.ai local development with mock server and test workflows') and when (explicit 'Use when setting up a dev environment, testing API calls...'), satisfying the score-3 anchor with an explicit 'Use when...' clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural trigger phrases a user would say ('instantly dev setup', 'test instantly locally', 'instantly mock server', 'instantly development environment') plus 'testing API calls without sending emails', giving good coverage of natural terms.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Tightly scoped to Instantly.ai local development with distinctive, product-specific triggers, making it unlikely to fire for unrelated skills and avoiding overlap.	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: c89430d

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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