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email-triage

Triage Joel's email inboxes via the joelclaw email CLI. Scan, categorize, archive noise, surface actionable items, and draft replies. Use when: 'check my email', 'scan inbox', 'triage email', 'what needs a reply', 'clean up inbox', 'archive junk', 'email summary', 'anything important in email', or any request involving email inbox review or cleanup.

90

2.87x
Quality

88%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

92%

2.87x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

77%

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

This is a strong, highly actionable skill with excellent workflow clarity and real executable examples throughout. The Front Search API reference and triage workflow are well-structured with appropriate safety mechanisms (dry-runs, draft-then-approve). The main weakness is that the skill is quite long and could benefit from splitting the API reference into a separate file, and some categorization heuristics explain things Claude could reasonably infer.

Suggestions

Extract the Front Search API Reference section into a separate FRONT_SEARCH_REFERENCE.md file and link to it from the main skill, keeping SKILL.md focused on the triage workflow.

Trim the 'Signals for Archive' section — Claude can infer that marketing spam patterns like 'LAST chance' and 'noreply@' senders are noise without explicit enumeration.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is mostly efficient with good reference material, but includes some content Claude could infer (e.g., explaining what marketing spam looks like, basic categorization heuristics). The Front Search API reference section is thorough but lengthy — some of it (like explaining OR/AND logic for filters) could be trimmed. The noise sender examples and archive signals are useful domain-specific knowledge that earns its place.

2 / 3

Actionability

Excellent actionability throughout — every CLI command is copy-paste ready with real flags and examples, jq extraction patterns are provided with actual field paths, the triage workflow has concrete steps with executable commands, and the output format template is specific and usable.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The triage workflow is clearly sequenced (load → categorize → present → execute) with explicit validation checkpoints: dry-run before bulk archive, read before deciding, draft-then-approve for replies. The archive-bulk dry-run default is a strong safety mechanism, and rate limiting guidance is included for large batch operations.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is well-organized with clear headers and logical sections, but it's a monolithic file with no references to supporting documents. The Front Search API reference section (valid statuses, date filters, entity filters, negation notes) could be split into a separate reference file, keeping SKILL.md focused on the triage workflow. For a skill of this length (~200+ lines), some content decomposition would improve navigability.

2 / 3

Total

10

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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.

This is an excellent skill description that hits all the marks. It provides specific concrete actions, names the tool and user context, includes a comprehensive 'Use when' clause with natural trigger phrases, and is clearly distinguishable from other skills. The description is concise yet thorough.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: scan, categorize, archive noise, surface actionable items, and draft replies. Also names the specific tool ('joelclaw email CLI') and the specific user ('Joel').

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (triage email inboxes, scan, categorize, archive, surface actionable items, draft replies) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when:' clause with extensive trigger phrases and a catch-all for email inbox review or cleanup).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would say: 'check my email', 'scan inbox', 'triage email', 'what needs a reply', 'clean up inbox', 'archive junk', 'email summary', 'anything important in email'. These are highly natural phrases.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive due to the specific tool ('joelclaw email CLI'), specific user ('Joel'), and clear niche (email triage/inbox management). Unlikely to conflict with other skills given the named CLI tool and specific domain.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

90%

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

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

10

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11

Passed

Repository
joelhooks/joelclaw
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