Name: alpha-vantage
Rating: 57.599999999999994 (1 reviews)
Author: membranedev

alpha-vantage

Alpha Vantage integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Alpha Vantage data.

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Quality

Content

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

The content is highly actionable and well-sequenced with strong command examples and state-handling guidance, but it inlines a large actions reference that belongs in a separate file and contains a broken step-cross-reference that slightly harms navigation.

Suggestions

Move the Popular actions table into a separate reference file (e.g. references/actions.md) and link to it from the body to improve progressive disclosure.

Fix the dangling navigation reference: the body says 'skip to Step 2' and has a '1b' section with no corresponding 'Step 2' or '1a' label, so relabel or remove these cross-references.

Trim the opening overview paragraph and editorial asides ('so you can focus on the integration logic rather than auth plumbing') to tighten token efficiency.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly executable commands with tight explanations, but the opening overview paragraph and a few phrases ('so you can focus on the integration logic rather than auth plumbing') are minor over-explanation that could be trimmed.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete, executable commands throughout (install, login, connection ensure, action run with JSON input) plus a dense Popular actions table with keys, with only minor gaps such as no fully worked end-to-end example tying the steps together.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear sequenced workflow (install -> authenticate -> connect -> poll state with explicit recovery -> search/run actions) with polling feedback loops, but a dangling 'skip to Step 2' reference with no labeled Step 1a/Step 2 introduces a minor navigation gap.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Sections are well-organized, but the 15-row Popular actions table is inlined API-reference bulk that would be better placed in a separate reference file, and no external file references are used at all.	3 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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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 answers both 'what' and 'when' with a clear brand anchor, but the capability language is generic ('manage data, records, automate workflows') rather than naming concrete Alpha Vantage operations, and trigger phrases could be more natural.

Suggestions

Replace generic actions ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows') with concrete Alpha Vantage capabilities such as 'Fetch stock time series, technical indicators, forex, and crypto data'.

Add natural user trigger phrases to the 'Use when' clause, e.g. 'Use when the user wants stock prices, market data, technical indicators, or financial analytics from Alpha Vantage.'

Include common synonyms/extensions a user might say (e.g. 'stock data', 'financial API') to improve trigger term coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the Alpha Vantage domain and lists a few actions ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows'), but the actions are generic rather than concrete operations like 'fetch' or 'extract', placing it at the domain-plus-actions level without comprehensive coverage.	3 / 5
Completeness	States both a 'what' ('Alpha Vantage integration. Manage data, records...') and an explicit 'Use when' trigger ('Use when the user wants to interact with Alpha Vantage data'), though the 'when' clause is somewhat generic rather than concrete triggers.	4 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes the brand keyword 'Alpha Vantage' and 'data', but lacks natural user phrases or synonyms such as 'stock prices', 'financial data', or 'API' that a user would commonly say.	3 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The explicit 'Alpha Vantage' brand name gives it a clear niche and makes it unlikely to trigger for the wrong skill, with only minor overlap risk with other data-integration skills.	4 / 5
	Total	14 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: membranedev/application-skills
Path: skills/alpha-vantage/SKILL.md
Commit: f484c82

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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