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ark-research

Research technical solutions by searching the web, examining GitHub repos, and gathering evidence. Use when exploring implementation options or evaluating technologies.

78

1.65x
Quality

78%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

68%

1.65x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Low

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Quality

Content

72%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The body is a well-structured, mostly executable research workflow with clean organization and minimal padding. Its main weakness is workflow clarity: a batch research process that recommends solutions needs an explicit validate-then-retry loop when evidence is insufficient.

Suggestions

Add an explicit feedback loop for the evidence gate: if fewer than 2-3 datapoints are found, loop back to widen the search or request more sources rather than only asking the user for guidance.

Tighten the padded intros (e.g., "Always start with web search to find:" / "Look for:") into direct imperative lists to remove a few tokens of filler.

Make the abstract guidance concrete — e.g., specify which README/architecture signals to check when examining a cloned repo instead of generic "Look for" bullets.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly lean bullet lists and short prose that assume Claude's competence, with only minor padding ("Always start with web search to find:", "Look for:") and slightly verbose example prompts that could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable commands (git clone, cat, mkdir -p) and a full output-format template, but some guidance stays abstract ("Look for: README documentation", "Ask the user to paste the relevant content").

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear five-step sequence is present, but the batch research workflow lacks an explicit validation/feedback loop: the "2-3 datapoints" requirement is a gate yet there is no retry-revalidate step when evidence is insufficient.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A simple single-purpose skill with no external bundle files, organized into clean, well-labeled sections; per the simple-skill note this warrants a 5.

5 / 5

Total

16

/

20

Passed

Description

83%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A strong description that clearly states both capability and trigger conditions in third person. The main gap is slightly generic action wording ("gathering evidence") and a few missing natural synonyms users might actually say.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists three concrete actions ("searching the web, examining GitHub repos, and gathering evidence"), giving comprehensive coverage of the domain, but "gathering evidence" is slightly generic versus the anchor-5 example of multiple tightly-specified actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Research technical solutions by searching the web, examining GitHub repos, and gathering evidence") and when ("Use when exploring implementation options or evaluating technologies") with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keywords ("web", "GitHub repos", "exploring implementation options", "evaluating technologies") but missing common synonyms users would say like "research", "compare libraries", or "look up".

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The GitHub-repos and evidence-gathering framing carves a recognizable niche, but "research technical solutions" is broad enough to risk minor overlap with general web-search skills.

4 / 5

Total

17

/

20

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

relative_links

Relative link issues: 3 missing

Warning

Total

15

/

16

Passed

Repository
mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark
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