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CATS integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with CATS 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 Membrane-CLI workflow with clear state-handling checkpoints, but it is undermined by a leaked placeholder line, a wrong docs link, broken step references, and an absence of CATS-specific examples. It is functional but needs cleanup and domain specificity.

Suggestions

Remove the leaked line "I don't have enough information to do that..." and replace the thecatapi.com link with the real CATS (ATS) documentation URL.

Fix the "skip to Step 2" navigation by labeling the searching/running-actions sections as Step 2 and Step 3, or reword the forward reference.

Add at least one CATS-specific action example (e.g. listing candidates or fetching a job order) instead of generic QUERY/CONNECTION_ID placeholders.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly lean commands and tables, but it carries irrelevant noise — a leaked placeholder line ("I don't have enough information to do that. I need a description of the app.") and a mismatched docs link — plus some prose that could be tightened, fitting "mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation".

3 / 5

Actionability

It provides copy-paste-ready commands (login, connection ensure, action list/run, request with a full flag table) but relies on placeholders (CONNECTION_ID, QUERY, actionId) and lacks CATS-specific examples, so it is "mostly executable guidance with minor gaps" rather than fully covering common cases.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The install → auth → connect → search → run flow is clearly sequenced with explicit state checkpoints (READY/BUILDING/CLIENT_ACTION_REQUIRED/CONFIGURATION_ERROR) and a poll-retry loop; the main gap is a broken "skip to Step 2" reference with no Step 2, keeping it just below the top anchor.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

With no bundle files present, the single-file body is well-organized into clear sections (Overview, Working with CATS, Proxy, Best practices) with no nested-reference anti-pattern; it lacks the well-signaled one-level-deep references of the top anchor, so "good structure with minor organization gaps" fits.

4 / 5

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Description

57%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 successfully pairs a "what" with an explicit "Use when" trigger and anchors on a distinct application name, but its action language is generic and its keyword coverage is narrow. It is solid but unspecific.

Suggestions

Replace generic verbs with concrete CATS actions, e.g. "create and track candidates, manage job postings, and parse resumes".

Expand trigger terms beyond "CATS data" to include natural phrases like "applicants", "job orders", or "candidate pipeline".

Clarify what CATS is (an applicant tracking system) so the trigger is unambiguous to users who mention hiring or recruiting.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Manage data, records, and automate workflows" names the CATS domain and a few actions, but the actions are generic rather than concrete (no "create candidates", "post jobs", or "download resumes"), fitting the "actions are minimal or generic" anchor better than the concrete-actions anchor above.

2 / 5

Completeness

It has an explicit "Use when the user wants to interact with CATS data" trigger and a stated "what" (manage data/records, automate workflows); both are present though the "when" could be more specific, matching the anchor where both exist but could be sharper.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"CATS" and "interact with CATS data" are relevant natural keywords a user would say, but coverage is thin with no synonyms, file extensions, or related terms, matching "some relevant keywords but missing common variations".

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"CATS" is a distinct named-application trigger giving it a clear niche, but the generic action phrasing ("manage data, records") creates minor overlap risk with other data-management skills rather than the minimal-conflict anchor.

4 / 5

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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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Total

15

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16

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