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

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SKILL.md
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Content

75%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, executable guide to driving Oxford Dictionaries through the Membrane CLI, with concrete commands, JSON flags, and a clear connection state-machine including a retry loop. It is concise and actionable; its main weakness is the absence of a final success-validation checkpoint after running actions.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean — concrete CLI commands with minimal preamble and no 'what is a dictionary' filler — though a few lines (e.g. the Membrane auth/marketing framing in 'Working with Oxford Dictionaries') could be trimmed, keeping it just below the fully-lean anchor.

4 / 5

Actionability

It provides copy-paste-ready, executable `membrane` commands with flags and JSON examples covering install, auth, connection, action discovery, action runs, and proxy requests; minor gaps (e.g. no concrete `actionId` example) keep it just shy of the fully-executable anchor.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The connection flow is clearly sequenced with explicit state checks (READY/BUILDING/CLIENT_ACTION_REQUIRED) and a poll-again feedback loop after user action, but it lacks a final validation that a returned action result succeeded, leaving a minor checkpoint gap.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Content is well organized into overview, setup, connection, actions, and best-practices sections with no bundle files to manage; it stays a single self-contained document with good navigation, though a couple of sections (e.g. the full proxy flag table) could be split out, keeping it below the ideal one-level reference anchor.

4 / 5

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Description

62%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 correctly identifies the niche and includes an explicit 'Use when' clause, but the capability language is generic ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows') rather than naming concrete dictionary actions. Tightening the action list and adding natural trigger terms would lift specificity and trigger quality.

Suggestions

Replace generic verbs with concrete dictionary operations, e.g. 'Look up word definitions, pronunciations, translations, thesaurus entries, and example sentences'.

Add natural trigger terms users actually say, such as 'definitions', 'word meanings', 'translations', and 'thesaurus'.

Make the 'Use when' clause reference those concrete triggers (e.g. 'Use when the user wants word definitions, translations, or thesaurus lookups') rather than 'interact with Oxford Dictionaries data'.

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Specificity

The description names the domain ('Oxford Dictionaries integration') and a few generic actions ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows'), but these are abstract rather than concrete dictionary operations (e.g. look up definitions, translations, pronunciations), fitting the 'domain plus 1-2 generic actions' anchor rather than a list of specific actions.

3 / 5

Completeness

It gives a clear 'what' ('Manage data, records, and automate workflows') and an explicit 'when' ('Use when the user wants to interact with Oxford Dictionaries data'), but the 'when' is generic rather than tied to concrete triggers, landing between the clear-what/explicit-when anchors.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It surfaces 'Oxford Dictionaries', 'data', and 'records' but omits the natural phrases a user would say ('definitions', 'translations', 'word lookup', 'thesaurus'), so it has some relevant keywords but is missing common variations.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Oxford Dictionaries integration' is a clear niche with distinct triggers and low conflict risk, though the generic 'Manage data, records, and automate workflows' phrasing keeps it just short of the fully-distinct 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

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