writing-user-outputs

CLI output formatting standards for worktrunk. Load before editing any code that calls warning_message, hint_message, error_message, info_message, eprintln, or println, or that produces strings the user will see (CLI help, progress UI, snapshot text). Documents ANSI color nesting rules, message patterns, and output system architecture.

Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

77%

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

The body is exceptionally actionable with concrete code, decision trees, and verification guidance, but its large monolithic size works against conciseness and progressive disclosure. Splitting the architecture and formatting-standards sections into reference files would improve both dimensions.

Suggestions

Split the two top-level sections ('Output System Architecture' and 'CLI Output Formatting Standards') into separate reference files (e.g., ARCHITECTURE.md, FORMATTING.md) and keep SKILL.md as a concise overview with one-level-deep links, raising progressive_disclosure.

Consolidate repetitive GOOD/BAD example pairs and exhaustive message-type enumerations into representative examples to reduce length and improve conciseness.

Move the long tables (message formatting functions, message-type comparisons) into a reference file, keeping only the decision principles inline.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is largely efficient and assumes Claude's competence (no basic explanations of ANSI or CLI concepts), but at ~1026 lines with many repetitive GOOD/BAD example pairs and exhaustive enumeration of every message/spacing variant, it could be tightened to respect the token budget.	2 / 3
Actionability	Highly concrete throughout — executable Rust snippets, exact function names (success_message, format_heading, format_path_for_display), specific cformat! tags, and copy-paste-ready GOOD/BAD examples, fully meeting the 'executable, copy-paste ready' anchor.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Multi-step decisions are clearly sequenced with explicit decision trees and tables — the stdout/stderr answer-vs-narration arbiter, the 'Is it unexpected?' warning-placement tree, and the prompt-vs-hint --yes behavior table — with snapshot testing as a verification checkpoint.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Sections are well-organized with headers, but the skill is a monolithic ~1026-line document with no bundle files and no external references; the two major H1 divisions (Output System Architecture vs CLI Output Formatting Standards) are content that could plausibly be split into separate files, matching the 'content that should be separate is inline' anchor.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

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.

The description is specific, third-person, and explicitly states both capabilities and load triggers tied to concrete function names. It is concise yet comprehensive, with no vague fluff or over-claims.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions and targets — 'editing any code that calls warning_message, hint_message, error_message, info_message, eprintln, or println' and 'produces strings the user will see (CLI help, progress UI, snapshot text)' — matching the 'lists multiple specific concrete actions' anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('CLI output formatting standards for worktrunk ... Documents ANSI color nesting rules, message patterns, and output system architecture') and when ('Load before editing any code that calls ... or that produces strings the user will see'), satisfying the explicit-trigger anchor.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Covers natural trigger terms a developer would say — the output function names plus 'CLI help', 'progress UI', 'snapshot text', and 'ANSI color nesting rules' — giving good coverage of terms users would actually invoke.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Tightly scoped to worktrunk's specific output functions and ANSI nesting rules, forming a clear niche unlikely to trigger for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

81%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (1026 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: max-sixty/worktrunk
Commit: d422b1b

Reviewed: about 11 hours ago

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