creating-skills

Use when you need to create a new custom skill for a profile - guides through gathering requirements, creating directory structure, writing SKILL.md, and optionally adding bundled scripts

Quality

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A compact, well-organized instructional skill body with genuinely useful concrete templates and contrastive examples. Its weaknesses are the absence of any validation checkpoint in the workflow and incomplete executable specifics for the core deliverable (directory path, frontmatter format).

Suggestions

Add a validation checkpoint to the required steps, e.g., "Verify the new SKILL.md frontmatter parses and the skill is discoverable in the profile directory".

Include a concrete frontmatter and directory example (actual path pattern plus a minimal valid SKILL.md) so the core deliverable is copy-paste ready.

Move the good/bad example gallery into a references/ file (one level deep) and keep only a pointer plus one exemplar inline.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and instructional throughout, with only minor trimmable lines like "Scripts are simple code cli tools that do various things deterministically"; it explains nothing Claude already knows.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides a copy-paste <required> block template, a step-with-guidelines example, and concrete good/bad example pairs, but omits key executable details such as the profile directory path, a SKILL.md frontmatter example, and the command to create the skill directory.	3 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The required checklist gives a coherent ordered 6-step sequence ending with instructing the user to run /nori-switch-profile, but no validation checkpoints exist (e.g., verifying the written SKILL.md parses or the skill loads).	3 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Sections (Overview, Writing Skills, Writing scripts, Tools and Code) are well organized and the referenced example URLs are one level deep and clearly signaled; however, the body exceeds the simple-skill threshold and the good/bad example gallery is inlined content that could live in a references file.	4 / 5
	Total	14 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A clear, well-structured description that names the domain and four concrete actions with an explicit trigger clause. Its main deductions are second-person voice (mandated specificity penalty) and limited trigger-phrase coverage.

Suggestions

Rewrite in third person (e.g., "Guides through gathering requirements... Use when the user asks to create, make, or add a custom skill") to avoid the voice penalty.

Broaden trigger coverage with natural variations users would say: "new skill", "make a skill", "add a skill to my profile", "SKILL.md".

Mention the full lifecycle (e.g., verifying the created skill or switching profiles) to close the completeness gap.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists four concrete actions ("gathering requirements, creating directory structure, writing SKILL.md, and optionally adding bundled scripts"), a baseline 4 for several specific actions with minor gaps, but reduced by 1 per the guideline because the description uses second-person voice ("Use when you need to...").	3 / 5
Completeness	Both a clear what ("guides through gathering requirements, creating directory structure, writing SKILL.md, and optionally adding bundled scripts") and an explicit when ("Use when you need to create a new custom skill for a profile") are present; the when clause relies on a single trigger phrase and could be more specific.	4 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	"create a new custom skill", "SKILL.md", and "bundled scripts" are natural terms users would say, but common variations like "make a skill", "add a skill", or "new skill" are missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	"custom skill for a profile", "SKILL.md", and "bundled scripts" form a distinct authoring niche with low conflict risk, though it could overlap with skill-editing or profile-management requests.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Validation

100%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository: microsoft/FluidFramework
Path: .agency/plugins/nori/skills/creating-skills/SKILL.md
Commit: e41dc04

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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