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Start work on a Jira ticket.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

100%

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

The content is a tight, well-sequenced, instruction-style workflow: it is lean, packed with Jira-specific concrete details, includes explicit guard checks and a retry loop, and is appropriately organized without needing external references.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence (e.g. "Abort when the working tree has uncommitted changes.", "Branch off the current HEAD, named after the target key.") with no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows; even the Technical-Task autocreation note is Jira-specific knowledge that earns its place, matching the 'lean and efficient; every token earns its place' anchor.

3 / 3

Actionability

For an instruction-only skill the guidance is concrete and specific throughout — exact transition IDs (61, 41, 21), issue-type IDs (10004, 10001, 10002, 10153), named destination statuses, and a defined branch-naming rule — giving unambiguous, actionable direction rather than vague description, satisfying the instruction-skill actionability bar without needing literal commands.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear sequenced workflow (Resolve -> Prerequisites -> Determine Target -> Start Parent -> Start Child -> Branch -> Plan) with explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops — abort on uncommitted changes, refuse on a different user's in-progress status, and refetch subtasks until the Technical Task appears — matching the 'clear sequence with explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery' anchor.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body is under 50 lines, needs no external references (none exist and none are referenced), and is organized into well-labeled section headers, which per the scoring notes lets a simple self-contained skill score 3 on progressive disclosure with just well-organized sections.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Description

57%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description correctly identifies a specific, distinctive niche but is terse: it conveys the 'what' only and omits explicit 'when to use it' trigger guidance and common keyword variations.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when beginning development on a Jira ticket or when the user gives a ticket key/URL.'

Expand concrete actions to list the key operations (assign, apply transitions, create branch, plan) rather than the single abstract phrase 'Start work'.

Include natural keyword variations users might say (ticket key, sprint ticket, begin work, branch for a ticket) to improve trigger coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Quotes the domain and an action ("Start work on a Jira ticket.") which names the Jira-ticket domain and a recognizable action verb, but it lists only a single abstract action rather than multiple concrete actions, so it stops at the 'names domain and some actions, not comprehensive' anchor rather than the multi-action level 3.

2 / 3

Completeness

It states what the skill does ("Start work on a Jira ticket.") but provides no explicit 'Use when...' or equivalent trigger guidance, so per the judging guidelines completeness is capped at 2 with 'what' present and 'when' only implied.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

It includes natural terms a user might say ("Jira ticket", "start work"), but coverage is thin with no common variations such as ticket key, sprint, branch, or begin work, matching the 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations' anchor and falling short of broad level-3 coverage.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Jira-ticket start-work niche is specific and unlikely to overlap with unrelated skills, matching the 'clear niche with distinct triggers; unlikely to conflict' anchor rather than the more generic level-2 case.

3 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

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

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

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liferay/liferay-portal
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