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document-approval-tracker

Approval cascade definition and tracking for multi-stakeholder document workflows. Internal review sequences, client approval workflows, regulatory review, overdue chasing with escalation logic, version control coordination, and cross-jurisdiction document dependencies. Use when defining who reviews a document and in what order, tracking where a document is stuck in the approval chain, chasing an overdue reviewer, preventing reviewers working on superseded drafts, or mapping dependencies between documents across jurisdictions. Trigger on: 'who needs to approve this', 'document approval', 'review sequence', 'stuck in review', 'overdue approval', 'who has the document', 'version control', 'wrong version', 'document dependency', 'NL SPA waiting on German opinion', 'approval cascade', 'review chain', 'document circulation', 'chasing the partner', 'client approval process', 'where is the document'.

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Quality

77%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Discovery

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 thoroughly covers specific capabilities, provides explicit trigger guidance with both 'Use when' scenarios and a comprehensive 'Trigger on' keyword list, and occupies a clearly distinct niche. The description uses proper third-person voice throughout and includes both natural conversational phrases and domain-specific terminology that users would realistically use.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: approval cascade definition, tracking, internal review sequences, client approval workflows, regulatory review, overdue chasing with escalation logic, version control coordination, and cross-jurisdiction document dependencies.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (approval cascade definition and tracking for multi-stakeholder document workflows with specific sub-capabilities) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when' clause with five distinct scenarios plus a comprehensive 'Trigger on' list).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms including conversational phrases users would actually say like 'who needs to approve this', 'stuck in review', 'chasing the partner', 'where is the document', and domain-specific examples like 'NL SPA waiting on German opinion'.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche focused specifically on document approval cascades and multi-stakeholder review workflows. The specificity of triggers like 'approval cascade', 'review chain', and cross-jurisdiction dependencies makes it highly distinguishable from general document management or version control skills.

3 / 3

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Passed

Implementation

55%

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

The skill excels at actionability and workflow clarity — every mode produces concrete, copy-paste-ready outputs with clear sequencing and validation gates. However, it is severely undermined by its length and monolithic structure. At 400+ lines with no external file references, it consumes excessive context window space, with significant portions dedicated to domain knowledge Claude can infer, future DMS capabilities that don't exist, and repeated behavioral instructions that could be consolidated.

Suggestions

Extract the Domain Knowledge section, M365/DMS Integration section, and Cross-Skill Handoffs into separate reference files (e.g., DOMAIN.md, INTEGRATION.md, HANDOFFS.md) and link from the main skill with one-line descriptions.

Remove the 'DMS integration — target capability, not yet available' subsection entirely — describing features that don't exist wastes tokens and provides no actionable guidance.

Consolidate repeated behavioral instructions (e.g., 'produce the output, do not ask whether to produce it' and 'do not soften the deadline' appear in multiple forms) into a single 'Output Rules' section at the top.

Move the email templates and table skeletons into a TEMPLATES.md file referenced from each mode, keeping only a brief description of each mode's purpose and trigger in the main skill.

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Conciseness

The skill is extremely verbose at ~400+ lines. It includes extensive domain knowledge sections explaining why document approval fails (concepts Claude can infer), lengthy explanations of LPM vs attorney boundaries, and repeated instructions about what not to do. The M365/DMS integration section describes future capabilities that don't exist yet, wasting significant tokens. Many instructions are restated multiple times across sections.

1 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides fully executable templates for every mode: cascade design skeletons with complete table structures, position tracker tables, escalation email templates at each stage with specific subject lines and body text, version status tables, and recall/clarification emails. All outputs are copy-paste ready with clear placeholder conventions.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step processes are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints. The escalation path has clear day-based triggers (Day 1/3/5/7+), the cascade design has a required checklist of gaps to confirm before activation, the hard gate for identifier blocks prevents premature output, and the 80% SLA flag threshold provides early warning. Mode 2/3 hybrid handling is explicitly addressed with ordering instructions.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The entire skill is a monolithic wall of text with no references to external files. The M365 integration section, domain knowledge section, cross-skill handoffs, and time-sensitive assumptions could all be separate reference files. The cascade design template, position tracker template, and email templates could be in a TEMPLATES.md file. Everything is inline, making the skill extremely long and hard to navigate.

1 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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