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Certify integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Certify 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 body is a solid, command-driven integration guide with a genuinely well-handled connection state machine and fallback proxy path. Its weaknesses are dead or duplicated sections, a broken 'Step 2' cross-reference, inconsistent CLI invocation, and no guidance on verifying action results or handling run failures.

Suggestions

Delete the empty 'Certify Overview' section (its three bullets carry no information) and merge 'Popular actions' into 'Searching for actions' since both present the same command.

Fix the broken 'skip to Step 2' reference by numbering the workflow steps explicitly (e.g. Step 1: connect, Step 2: discover actions, Step 3: run), and standardize on one CLI invocation form ('membrane' after install, or 'npx @membranehq/cli' consistently).

Add a short error-handling note for action runs: check the output field, inspect error responses, and retry or fall back to the proxy when an action fails.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The bulk is tight, copy-paste command blocks, but there is real waste: the 'Certify Overview' section is three content-free bullets, and phrases like 'used by businesses of all sizes' and 'This will burn less tokens' are padded marketing language. Matches 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation' rather than 4, given the dead Overview section.

3 / 5

Actionability

Fully concrete commands throughout (install, login, connection ensure, action list/run with --input JSON, proxy request with a flags table). Minor gaps keep it at 4: 'skip to Step 2' points to a step that is never defined, and the CLI is invoked inconsistently as 'membrane' vs 'npx @membranehq/cli'.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The connection flow has an explicit state machine with a feedback loop (poll --wait, handle CLIENT_ACTION_REQUIRED by showing uiUrl, poll again until READY, check error field on failure). It is not 5 because there is no error handling or output verification guidance after running actions, and the undefined 'Step 2' reference breaks sequence coherence; it is above 3 because the most fragile step does have explicit checkpoints and retry logic.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A self-contained single-file skill with clear section headers and no nested or missing references. Minor organization gaps: the empty 'Certify Overview' section adds nothing, and 'Popular actions' restates the same command as 'Searching for actions' with no added content.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

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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 has an explicit 'Use when' clause and names the target app, giving it adequate completeness and distinctiveness. Its weakness is vague capability language: 'manage data, records, and automate workflows' could describe any SaaS integration, and the expense-report vocabulary that users would naturally say is entirely missing.

Suggestions

Replace 'Manage data, records, and automate workflows' with concrete capabilities such as 'Create, submit, and approve expense reports' — the body already states Certify is expense report management software, so surface that in the description.

Add natural trigger terms users would say: 'expenses', 'expense reports', 'receipts', 'reimbursements', 'spend approval'.

Tighten the 'when' clause to concrete triggers, e.g. 'Use when the user mentions Certify, expense reports, receipts, or employee reimbursements.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('Certify integration') but the actions ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows') are generic and interchangeable with any SaaS skill; the app's actual function (expense reports) never appears. It is not score 3 because no concrete capability like 'create and submit expense reports' is stated.

2 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are present: what ('Certify integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows') and an explicit when ('Use when the user wants to interact with Certify data'). It is not 5 because the 'when' references generic 'Certify data' rather than concrete trigger phrases such as expense reports or receipts.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'Certify' is the one strong natural keyword alongside generic 'data', 'records', 'workflows', but the terms users would actually say — 'expenses', 'expense reports', 'receipts', 'reimbursements' — are all missing. Anchor 3 (relevant keywords missing common synonyms) fits better than 4 because the core domain vocabulary is absent.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'Certify' name anchors the trigger and distinguishes it from other finance skills, but 'Manage data, records, and automate workflows' is broad phrasing that overlaps with generic automation or CRM-style skills. Mostly distinct with minor overlap risk, matching anchor 4.

4 / 5

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13

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20

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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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

membranedev/application-skills

Path

skills/certify/SKILL.md

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