resource-planner
Team structure, gearing analysis, continuity planning, and competing demand management for legal matters. Use when setting up a matter team, reviewing whether work is being done at the right grade, planning cover for an unavailable team member, or managing a resource conflict across matters. Trigger on: 'who should be on this matter', 'team structure', 'gearing', 'right people at the right level', 'partner is doing associate work', 'cover for maternity leave', 'who has capacity', 'team member leaving', 'over-allocated', 'staffing conflict', 'pinch point', 'capacity problem', 'how do we resource this', 'team too senior', 'team too junior'.
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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 clearly defines its domain (legal matter resourcing), lists specific capabilities, and provides comprehensive trigger guidance. The explicit 'Use when' clause and extensive 'Trigger on' list with natural, domain-specific phrases make it highly effective for skill selection. It serves as a strong example of a well-crafted description.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: team structure setup, gearing analysis, continuity planning, and competing demand management, all scoped to legal matters. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (team structure, gearing analysis, continuity planning, competing demand management for legal matters) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when...' clause and a detailed 'Trigger on:' list. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would actually say, including colloquial phrases like 'partner is doing associate work', 'cover for maternity leave', 'pinch point', 'team too senior', and 'who has capacity'. These are highly realistic phrases from legal practice. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly distinctive niche combining legal domain with resource/staffing management. The specific legal terminology ('gearing', 'matter team', 'partner is doing associate work') makes it very unlikely to conflict with other skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
27%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill demonstrates strong domain expertise and thoughtful design principles (partner authority boundary, data reliability ranking, fee basis as prerequisite), but it is severely undermined by verbosity. Large sections explain law firm operations and resourcing concepts that should either be assumed knowledge or moved to reference files. The lack of worked examples (a completed gearing table, a sample continuity plan) means the skill describes what to produce without showing it, reducing actionability.
Suggestions
Move the three 'Domain Knowledge' sections to separate reference files (e.g., GEARING.md, RESOURCING-CONTEXT.md, CONTINUITY.md) and replace with 2-3 line summaries linking to each.
Add a complete worked example for at least Mode 1 (populated gearing table with realistic data) and Mode 3 (sample impact assessment with placeholders filled in) to make outputs concrete and copy-paste ready.
Cut explanatory passages that teach concepts rather than instruct actions — e.g., 'What gearing is and why it matters' can be reduced to the failure modes list alone, and 'How staffing decisions actually get made' can be reduced to the reliability ranking.
Add explicit step-by-step numbered workflows for Modes 1 and 2 with validation checkpoints (e.g., 'Confirm gearing percentages sum to 100%', 'Verify variance column before producing recommendations').
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is extremely verbose at ~400+ lines. It extensively explains concepts Claude already knows (what gearing is, how law firm staffing works, what a handover note is, why continuity planning matters). The 'Domain Knowledge' sections are largely educational material that could be condensed to brief decision rules. The M365 Connected Mode section includes speculative future capabilities that add no actionable value. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides structured frameworks (delegation test, four continuity outputs, gearing table format) and specific output templates, which is good. However, there is no executable code, no concrete examples of completed analyses, and the guidance remains at the level of process description rather than copy-paste-ready templates. The table schema is shown but never populated with a worked example. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Each mode has clear inputs and outputs defined, and the pre-flight checklist is a good validation step. However, the modes lack explicit step-by-step sequencing with validation checkpoints. Mode 3 has the strongest workflow (four required outputs in order), but Modes 1 and 2 describe what to produce without clear sequential steps. There are no feedback loops for error recovery or verification of outputs. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The entire skill is a monolithic wall of text with no references to external files. The extensive domain knowledge sections (gearing, law firm resourcing reality, continuity planning) should be in separate reference files. Cross-skill handoffs are well-signaled but the core content is not split appropriately — everything is inline, making the skill very long and hard to navigate. | 1 / 3 |
Total | 6 / 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.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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