[00] META. Orchestrate skills into dynamic chains for complex tasks. Analyzes the task, discovers available skills, builds an optimal chain, explains why each skill is needed, and executes step-by-step with user confirmation. Use for any complex task requiring multiple thinking/research/analysis steps. Triggers on "plan this", "how to approach", "what's the strategy", "build a plan", or any multi-step problem requiring skill orchestration.
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Does it follow best practices?
Impact
89%
1.56xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./skills/data/00-meta-chain-flow-150/SKILL.mdQuality
Discovery
92%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 a strong skill description that clearly articulates what the skill does (orchestrates other skills into chains) and when to use it (with explicit trigger phrases). The main weakness is that its scope is inherently broad as a meta-orchestration skill, which creates some conflict risk with other planning or analysis skills. The description uses proper third-person voice and provides concrete actions.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: analyzes the task, discovers available skills, builds an optimal chain, explains why each skill is needed, and executes step-by-step with user confirmation. These are clear, actionable steps. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (orchestrate skills into dynamic chains, analyzes tasks, discovers skills, builds chains, executes step-by-step) and 'when' (explicit 'Use for' clause and 'Triggers on' clause with specific trigger phrases). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes natural trigger phrases users would actually say: 'plan this', 'how to approach', 'what's the strategy', 'build a plan', and 'multi-step problem'. These are realistic user utterances with good variety. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | While the orchestration/meta-skill concept is somewhat distinctive, phrases like 'complex task requiring multiple thinking/research/analysis steps' are quite broad and could overlap with general planning, project management, or research skills. The 'how to approach' trigger could also fire for simpler advisory tasks. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 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 is a meta-orchestration framework that suffers primarily from extreme verbosity — the same 6-step process is restated in at least 4 different ways (model diagram, chain building process, output format, and example). While the concept is sound and the directory scanning approach is practical, the skill would benefit enormously from aggressive trimming and splitting content into supporting files. The actionability is moderate: it provides useful patterns but remains more conceptual than executable.
Suggestions
Reduce content by at least 60% — eliminate redundant restatements of the 6-step flow (currently repeated in 'Orchestration Model', 'Chain Building Process', 'Output Format', 'Chain Execution Format', and 'Examples' sections). State the process once with one clear example.
Extract common chain patterns, failure modes table, and output format templates into separate reference files (e.g., PATTERNS.md, FORMATS.md) and link to them from the main SKILL.md.
Add concrete validation steps: after skill discovery, verify each SKILL.md file exists and is readable; after chain building, validate that all referenced skills were actually found; include a specific check before execution begins.
Remove explanatory content Claude doesn't need — e.g., 'This is a meta-skill — an orchestrator that:', the relationship diagram, and the 'What This Skill Does' section. Jump straight to the discovery process and chain-building rules.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Extremely verbose at ~300+ lines. Massive amounts of redundancy — the orchestration model, chain building process, output format, chain execution format, and examples all repeat the same 6-step flow multiple times. ASCII art diagrams, emoji decorations, and explanations of obvious concepts (what an orchestrator does) waste significant tokens. The skill could be reduced to ~30% of its size without losing information. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete directory paths to scan and bash commands for discovery, which is useful. However, the core orchestration logic is more of a conceptual framework than executable guidance — it describes a process pattern rather than giving Claude specific, copy-paste-ready implementations. The chain patterns are helpful but still abstract (just skill name sequences). | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 6-step sequence is clearly defined and includes user confirmation gates between steps, which is good. However, the adaptation/failure recovery steps are superficial — the failure modes table gives generic advice like 'Re-analyze, rebuild chain' without concrete validation checkpoints. There's no explicit verification that discovered skills actually exist or that chain dependencies are satisfied before execution. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Everything is crammed into a single monolithic file with no references to supporting documents. The content includes extensive output format templates, common chain patterns, examples, failure modes, and relationship diagrams that could easily be split into separate reference files. No bundle files are provided, and none are referenced. | 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
Validation for skill structure
No warnings or errors.
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