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Create new joelclaw skills with the idiomatic process — repo-canonical, symlinked, git-tracked, slogged. Triggers on 'add a skill', 'create skill', 'new skill', 'canonical skill', 'make a skill for', or any request to formalize a process or domain into a reusable skill.

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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.

A concise, directive instruction skill that assumes competence and provides concrete ownership, drafting, testing, and verification guidance. Main gaps are the lack of concrete examples and the prose-as-workflow format that leaves checkpoints implicit rather than enumerated.

Suggestions

Add a short enumerated sequence or subheadings (Resolve ownership, Draft, Test, Inspect/verify, Commit) so the workflow steps and validation checkpoints are explicit rather than implied by prose.

Include one minimal example of well-formed skill frontmatter and procedure structure to make the drafting guidance concrete and copy-pasteable.

Frame the testing guidance as an explicit validate-then-fix feedback loop (run comprehension case, observe, revise instructions) to strengthen the workflow's error-recovery path.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Lean, dense directives across four short paragraphs with no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every sentence carries an actionable constraint or rule.

5 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, specific guidance (named 'write-a-skill' workflow, explicit ownership mapping, component list to write, testing and verification actions) but lacks concrete examples and includes abstract directives like 'Infer the outcome and trigger'.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A discernible sequence exists (resolve ownership, draft, test, inspect/verify links, commit) with concrete verification actions, but it is presented as prose rather than an enumerated checklist and lacks an explicit validate-fix-retry feedback loop.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Short, self-contained, single-purpose body under 50 lines with no need for external references; well-sized but uses a single heading with prose paragraphs rather than sectioned sub-structure.

4 / 5

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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, specific description that clearly states what the skill does and when to invoke it, with comprehensive natural trigger phrases. Minor specificity gap comes from process attributes being adjectival rather than enumerated actions.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain and concrete action ('Create new joelclaw skills') plus specific process attributes ('repo-canonical, symlinked, git-tracked, slogged'), giving concrete detail beyond a single generic action, though these are qualities rather than multiple distinct verbs.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (create skills with the idiomatic process) and 'when' ('Triggers on...') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Lists five explicit natural trigger phrases users would say ('add a skill', 'create skill', 'new skill', 'canonical skill', 'make a skill for') plus a catch-all, covering synonyms comprehensively.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (joelclaw skill creation) with distinct, domain-specific triggers; minimal overlap risk with non-meta skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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16

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Repository
joelhooks/joelclaw
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