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Exa integration. Manage Organizations. Use when the user wants to interact with Exa 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 well-structured, largely executable guide to driving Exa through the Membrane CLI, with strong connection-state validation. It is held back by marketing-style padding, an under-populated actions table, and inconsistent step numbering.

Suggestions

Trim explanatory/marketing prose (the Exa intro paragraph, 'rather than auth plumbing', 'burn less tokens') to assume Claude's competence.

Fill the empty Description column in the Popular actions table or remove it, and replace 'Use action names and parameters as needed' with a concrete example intent and action run.

Fix the step numbering (define Step 1 and Step 2 explicitly) and add a brief error-handling checkpoint for failed action runs or proxy responses.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The bulk is efficient, concrete CLI commands, but the intro ('uses AI to understand context...') and phrases like 'so you can focus on the integration logic rather than auth plumbing' and 'burn less tokens' add unnecessary explanation.

3 / 5

Actionability

It provides concrete, copy-paste-ready commands for install, auth, connection, action list/run, and proxy with a flags table; minor gaps are the empty Description column in the Popular actions table and the vague 'Use action names and parameters as needed.'

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear install→auth→connect→search→run sequence exists with explicit connection-state validation and polling feedback (READY/BUILDING/CLIENT_ACTION_REQUIRED/CONFIGURATION_ERROR); gaps are orphan 'Step 2'/'1b' numbering and absent error-handling for action run/proxy.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The single-file body is well-organized into clear headed sections with no bundle files to reference; minor organization gaps come from the inconsistent step numbering ('1b', undefined 'Step 2').

4 / 5

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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 answers both what and when with an explicit 'Use when...' clause and a distinct named service, but the capability statement is generic ('Manage Organizations') and the trigger terms lack common user phrasings like 'search'.

Suggestions

Replace 'Manage Organizations' with the actual concrete actions the skill performs (e.g., 'Search the web, find similar links, and retrieve page contents via Exa').

Expand the trigger to natural phrasings users say, e.g., 'Use when the user wants to search the web with Exa, find similar links, or extract page content.'

Add common synonyms/file-extension-style triggers to broaden natural keyword coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

It names the domain ('Exa integration') and a single generic action ('Manage Organizations'), but offers no comprehensive concrete action list; the action is minimal/generic rather than specific.

2 / 5

Completeness

It states a 'what' ('Exa integration. Manage Organizations.') and an explicit 'Use when the user wants to interact with Exa data.' trigger, so both are present; the generic 'what' keeps it from a 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It includes relevant keywords ('Exa', 'Exa data', 'Organizations') but misses the natural phrases a user would say such as 'search the web with Exa', 'web search', or 'find links'.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Exa' is a named, distinct service giving it a clear niche, but the generic 'interact with Exa data' phrasing leaves minor overlap risk with broad data skills.

4 / 5

Total

13

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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

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
membranedev/application-skills
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