Personal knowledge base powered by Ensue for capturing and retrieving understanding. Use when user wants to save knowledge, recall what they know, manage their toolbox, or build on past learnings. Triggers on "save this", "remember", "what do I know about", "add to toolbox", "my notes on", "store this concept".
90
Quality
83%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
96%
2.90xAverage score across 6 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
Quality
Discovery
89%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 well-structured skill description with excellent trigger term coverage and clear completeness. The main weakness is the somewhat abstract description of capabilities - 'capturing and retrieving understanding' could be more concrete with specific actions like creating entries, searching, tagging, or organizing knowledge.
Suggestions
Replace 'capturing and retrieving understanding' with specific concrete actions like 'create knowledge entries, search past learnings, organize concepts by topic, link related ideas'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (personal knowledge base) and mentions actions like 'capturing and retrieving understanding', but lacks specific concrete actions like 'create notes', 'search entries', 'organize by tags', or 'export knowledge'. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both what (personal knowledge base for capturing and retrieving understanding) and when (explicit 'Use when' clause with specific scenarios and a 'Triggers on' section with concrete phrases). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would actually say: 'save this', 'remember', 'what do I know about', 'add to toolbox', 'my notes on', 'store this concept' - these are realistic user phrases. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The combination of 'Ensue', 'toolbox', and personal knowledge management creates a clear niche. The specific trigger terms like 'add to toolbox' and 'what do I know about' are distinctive and unlikely to conflict with generic note-taking or document skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a well-structured skill with excellent actionability - the API commands are copy-paste ready and the content templates are concrete and usable. The workflow for saving knowledge includes proper confirmation steps. However, the skill is somewhat verbose for its purpose and could benefit from splitting detailed reference material (content formats, API operations) into separate files.
Suggestions
Move the detailed content format templates (Concepts, Toolbox Entries, Patterns, References) to a separate FORMATS.md file and link to it
Condense the Philosophy section to 2-3 bullet points - Claude understands the concept of useful knowledge capture
Consider moving the full API operations reference to an API.md file, keeping only the most common operations inline
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is reasonably efficient but includes some unnecessary elaboration. The philosophy section and anti-patterns could be more condensed, and some explanations (like 'Not a note dump') are somewhat verbose for Claude. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully executable bash commands for all API operations, concrete content templates with clear structure, and specific examples. The intent mapping table gives precise action guidance for each user request type. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 'Saving Knowledge' section provides a clear 4-step workflow with explicit confirmation checkpoints. The 'Maintaining Quality' checklist serves as validation before saving. Intent mapping provides clear sequences for each operation type. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Content is well-organized with clear sections, but everything is in a single file. The namespace structure, content formats, and API usage sections are substantial and could benefit from being split into separate reference files with links from the main skill. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |
Validation
81%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 9 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
metadata_version | 'metadata.version' is missing | Warning |
metadata_field | 'metadata' should map string keys to string values | Warning |
Total | 9 / 11 Passed | |
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