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profiling-application-performance

Execute this skill enables AI assistant to profile application performance, analyzing cpu usage, memory consumption, and execution time. it is triggered when the user requests performance analysis, bottleneck identification, or optimization recommendations. the... Use when optimizing performance. Trigger with phrases like 'optimize', 'performance', or 'speed up'.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

20%

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

The body is organized into sections and lists a high-level workflow, but it is overwhelmingly generic filler with no executable guidance and fails to connect Claude to the actual bundled profiling scripts.

Suggestions

Replace the abstract 'Activate the application-profiler plugin' steps with concrete commands invoking the bundled scripts (e.g. 'python scripts/analyze_results.py <profile.json>').

Delete the non-informative 'Instructions', 'Output', 'Prerequisites', and 'Resources' sections that restate obvious information.

Add a validation checkpoint to the workflow (e.g. confirm the profile captured the target process before reporting bottlenecks) and link to scripts/README.md for tool details.

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Conciseness

The body is padded with generic filler Claude already knows — 'This skill empowers Claude to...', 'The skill produces structured output relevant to the task', 'Project documentation / Related skills and commands' — adding no skill-specific value.

1 / 3

Actionability

There is no executable code or concrete command anywhere; it only describes ('Activate the application-profiler plugin', 'Analyze the application's memory allocation patterns') and never invokes the bundled scripts that actually exist.

1 / 3

Workflow Clarity

'How It Works' gives a 4-step sequence (identify stack, locate entry points, analyze metrics, generate profile), but steps are abstract and lack any validation checkpoints or concrete verification for a profiling workflow.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body is organized into sections, but it never signals or links to the bundled scripts (scripts/analyze_results.py, generate_report.py) or references, so the available bundle material goes unused.

2 / 3

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Description

82%

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 covers both capability and explicit triggers with natural keywords, but is undermined by grammatically broken, truncated phrasing ('Execute this skill enables AI assistant...', 'the...') and slightly generic trigger overlap.

Suggestions

Rewrite the opening into clean third person, e.g. 'Profiles application performance by analyzing CPU usage, memory consumption, and execution time to pinpoint bottlenecks.'

Remove the truncated 'the...' fragment and the redundant 'Execute this skill enables AI assistant' preamble.

Narrow triggers with profiling-specific phrasing (e.g. 'CPU profile', 'memory leak', 'flame graph') to reduce overlap with general optimization skills.

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Specificity

The description names concrete actions — 'profile application performance, analyzing cpu usage, memory consumption, and execution time' — but the broken framing ('Execute this skill enables AI assistant...') and the truncated 'the...' fragment keep it from being a clean, comprehensive action list.

2 / 3

Completeness

It answers both 'what' (profile/analyze cpu, memory, execution time) and 'when' via an explicit 'Use when optimizing performance. Trigger with phrases like...' clause, satisfying the explicit-trigger requirement.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

It surfaces natural user phrases a person would actually say — 'optimize', 'performance', 'speed up', plus 'bottleneck identification' — giving good coverage of natural trigger terms.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The cpu/memory/execution-time domain is a recognizable niche, but the primary triggers 'optimize' and 'performance' are broad and could plausibly overlap with other optimization or analysis skills.

2 / 3

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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

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

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Total

14

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16

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Repository
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