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aylien-news-api

Aylien News API integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Aylien News API data.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

67%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 content is a well-structured, actionable guide to driving the Aylien News API through the Membrane CLI, with explicit state-handling and feedback loops for connection setup. Its main weakness is a padded introductory paragraph and slightly inconsistent section numbering.

Suggestions

Cut or compress the opening paragraph describing what the API is and its audience; jump straight to what the skill does.

Normalize the connection sequence numbering (replace the '1b' / dangling 'Step 2' references with a clean ordered list) so the workflow reads as one unambiguous path.

Give at least one fully-resolved example (real connection id and action id) so the action-run and request patterns are copy-paste ready.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient CLI commands, but the opening paragraph explaining what the Aylien News API is and who uses it (data scientists, researchers, businesses) is background Claude largely already knows and could be trimmed.

3 / 5

Actionability

It provides concrete, runnable membrane commands (login, connection ensure, action list/run, request) with flags and a popular-actions table, but examples rely on unsubstituted placeholders like CONNECTION_ID and <actionId>.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The connection lifecycle is a clear state machine (ensure -> poll if BUILDING -> handle CLIENT_ACTION_REQUIRED/READY/error -> re-poll) with feedback loops, though section numbering is inconsistent ('1b', dangling 'Step 2') slightly muddying the sequence.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The single self-contained file is well sectioned (overview, install, auth, connecting, actions, proxy, best practices) with no bundle files present; the popular-actions and proxy-flag tables could optionally be split out but are reasonable inline.

4 / 5

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Description

61%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.

The description is clearly tied to a distinct product and includes an explicit 'Use when' trigger, but its capability list ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows') is generic and underrepresents the concrete news API operations the skill supports.

Suggestions

Replace 'Manage data, records, and automate workflows' with concrete operations such as 'search news stories, list trends, run time-series and histogram queries'.

Add natural trigger terms users would say, e.g. 'Use when the user wants to search news articles, track news trends, or analyze sentiment via the Aylien News API'.

Drop the generic 'Manage data, records' phrasing to avoid overlap with broader data-management skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the domain ('Aylien News API integration') but its actions are generic ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows') rather than concrete API operations like searching stories or extracting trends.

2 / 5

Completeness

Both a 'what' (Aylien integration, manage data/records/workflows) and an explicit 'when' ('Use when the user wants to interact with Aylien News API data') are present, though the 'what' could be more specific.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It surfaces the natural product name ('Aylien News API') but misses common user variations such as 'news articles', 'sentiment', 'stories', or 'trends' that the body itself enumerates.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The named product 'Aylien News API' gives it a clear niche with a distinct trigger, so it is unlikely to fire for an unrelated skill.

5 / 5

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14

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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

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

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