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cli-logging-ux

Use this skill when editing or creating CLI output, logging, warnings, error messages, progress indicators, or diagnostic summaries in the APM codebase. Activate whenever code touches console helpers (_rich_success, _rich_warning, _rich_error, _rich_info, _rich_echo), DiagnosticCollector, STATUS_SYMBOLS, CommandLogger, or any user-facing terminal output — even if the user doesn't mention "logging" or "UX" explicitly.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

65%Weight 40%Scale 1-3

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

The content is highly actionable with executable code and clear rules, but it is long and monolithic with no progressive-disclosure split, and its batch-operation workflows omit explicit validation checkpoints. Splitting the method tables into a reference file and adding validation steps would raise the weaker dimensions.

Suggestions

Move the CommandLogger and InstallLogger method tables into a reference file (e.g. references/command_logger.md) and link to it from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure and reduce the main file's length.

Add an explicit validation/verification checkpoint to the multi-package operation workflow (e.g. verify diagnostics counts and lockfile state before rendering the final summary) to support a validate-fix-retry loop.

Tighten the CommandLogger architecture section — the three-layer ASCII box and 'Scaling guidance' list could be condensed since Claude can infer the separation-of-concerns rationale from the rules that follow.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient with concrete code and tables and avoids explaining basic concepts, but at ~325 lines the CommandLogger architecture ASCII box and scaling guidance could be tightened, so it does not reach the lean-every-token-earns-its-place anchor.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready guidance — concrete imports, named logger methods with signatures, and Bad/Good code pairs — rather than vague direction or pseudocode.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Sequences are clear (collect during loop then render summary, inline-vs-deferred decision framework), but multi-package batch operations lack explicit validation checkpoints or validate-fix-retry feedback loops, which the rubric notes should cap this dimension at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well organized, but the ~325-line file is monolithic with large API-reference-style method tables inlined and no bundle reference files (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent) to offload detail, fitting the 'content that should be separate is inline' anchor.

2 / 3

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Description

100%Weight 40%Scale 1-3

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 strong: it states concrete capabilities, provides natural trigger terms, explicitly covers both what and when in third-person voice, and is tightly scoped to named codebase symbols. No changes needed.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — "editing or creating CLI output, logging, warnings, error messages, progress indicators, or diagnostic summaries" — matching the top anchor of several specific concrete actions rather than the partial score-2 list.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly states what the skill does and when to activate ("Activate whenever code touches console helpers ... even if the user doesn't mention 'logging' or 'UX' explicitly"), answering both what and when with explicit triggers in third-person voice.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural terms users would say ("CLI output", "logging", "warnings", "error messages", "progress indicators") alongside codebase symbols, giving good coverage rather than only some relevant keywords.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped to the APM codebase and anchored to named symbols (CommandLogger, DiagnosticCollector, STATUS_SYMBOLS), giving it a clear niche unlikely to trigger for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

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12

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12

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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

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

relative_links

Relative link issues: 1 suspicious

Warning

Total

15

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16

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Repository
microsoft/apm
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