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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

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

50%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 reasonably organized instruction skill with a clear required-checklist pattern and helpful good/bad examples, but it leans on description rather than fully executable templates and lacks validation checkpoints. Tightening redundancy and adding a concrete frontmatter example would lift it most.

Suggestions

Add a complete minimal SKILL.md frontmatter+body template so the writing step is copy-paste ready rather than described.

Insert a validation checkpoint in the workflow (e.g., verify frontmatter parses / skill appears in the profile) before the final profile-switch step.

Remove the duplicate <required> explanation and trim filler like "Scripts are simple code cli tools that do various things deterministically" to improve token efficiency.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly efficient with clear sections, but repeats the <required> block (shown once at top, then re-explained in Writing Skills) and includes light filler such as "Scripts are simple code cli tools that do various things deterministically."

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides a concrete <required> template and useful good/bad tool examples, but never shows a complete SKILL.md frontmatter example or concrete commands for the directory-structure step, leaving key details implicit.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 6-step TodoWrite sequence is clearly ordered, but there are no validation or verification checkpoints (e.g., confirm the skill loads or frontmatter parses) before telling the user to switch profiles.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Content is split into labeled sections with no nested references, but the trailing raw.githubusercontent URLs feel tacked on rather than clearly signaled progressive pointers, and no bundle files exist to verify references against.

3 / 5

Total

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20

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Description

67%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 is solid: it pairs a clear trigger with a concrete list of creation steps and occupies a distinct niche. Its main weakness is limited trigger-term variety, which narrows the natural phrases that would surface it.

Suggestions

Broaden trigger coverage with synonyms (e.g., "add", "build", or "make a skill") so users phrasing the need differently still surface this skill.

Optionally note when NOT to use it (e.g., editing an existing skill) to sharpen the trigger and reduce overlap risk.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists several concrete actions — "gathering requirements, creating directory structure, writing SKILL.md, and optionally adding bundled scripts" — with only minor coverage gaps (no mention of validation or testing).

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (guides through the listed creation steps) and when ("Use when you need to create a new custom skill for a profile"), though the when clause covers a single trigger only.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Contains natural terms like "create a new custom skill" and "profile", but misses common synonyms users might say such as "add", "build", or "make a skill".

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"create a new custom skill for a profile" carves a distinct niche with low conflict risk, with only minor overlap against general skill-management skills.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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