Conciseness

The body is lean (~65 lines), assumes Claude's competence, and never pads with definitions of what AI writing or tropes are; every section earns its place.

Actionability

As an instruction-only skill it gives concrete, specific guidance: named offender words ("quietly", "delve", "tapestry"), named structural patterns (negative parallelism, tricolon abuse), and a six-item self-check — actionable without code.

Workflow Clarity

"How to Use" gives a clear four-step sequence (draft → check → rewrite → re-read for density) with the re-read acting as a validation checkpoint, and the self-check provides an explicit checklist; appropriate for a simple single-task skill.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is an overview that signals six one-level-deep references (e.g. "See [references/word-choice.md]"), all of which exist as real files, with detail correctly split out rather than inlined.

Specificity

"Detect and eliminate common AI writing tropes from prose" names the domain and two concrete actions, but stops short of the multiple specific actions (e.g. detect, flag, rewrite, audit density) that would warrant a 3.

Completeness

It states what ("Detect and eliminate common AI writing tropes from prose") and gives an explicit when clause ("Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text..."), satisfying both halves with third-person voice.

Trigger Term Quality

"drafting, editing, or reviewing text" and "AI-generated writing" are natural terms, but the most colloquial triggers a user would actually say ("slop", "AI patterns", "ChatGPT-style") live only in metadata, not the description, leaving common variations uncovered.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is narrow and explicit — AI writing tropes in prose — with triggers tied to drafting/editing/reviewing, making overlap with unrelated skills unlikely.