shipping

Use this skill when contributing changes to the FAST monorepo — creating pull requests, generating change files, writing PR descriptions, and keeping documentation up to date.

Quality

88%

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Passed

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Quality

Content

77%

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

The body is highly actionable with concrete commands, clear guardrails, and an explicit verification checklist, but it is somewhat verbose and reuses inline content that overlaps with its own referenced files. Tightening the duplicated PR-template walkthrough and trimming rationale would lift conciseness and progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Trim rationale paragraphs (e.g., the Beachball change-comment and PR-template explanations) to one line each, since the actionable rule already follows.

Replace the inline PR-template section walkthrough with a brief pointer to .github/pull_request_template.md plus only the FAST-specific deviations, instead of restating each template section.

Add a short error-recovery note to the acceptance checklist (e.g., run npm run format if format:check fails, then re-check) to make the validation feedback loop explicit.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient with concrete commands and tables, but includes rationale paragraphs (e.g., the Beachball change-comment explanation and PR-template restating) that could be tightened; not fully lean.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides copy-paste-ready commands (npm run build/test/change, npm run change -- --branch, npm run prebuild -w sites/website), concrete file paths, and tables — fully executable guidance.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The acceptance checklist gives an explicit sequenced verification workflow (build, test, format:check, checkchange) with a confirm-pass checkpoint and a bug-fix test-first step, plus a guardrails checklist for risky autonomous actions.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	External repo references are well-signaled and one-level-deep, but the PR-template section (Description/Issues/Reviewer Notes/Test Plan/Checklist/Next Steps) duplicates content that lives in the referenced template file rather than delegating to it.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

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 concise, third-person-voiced, and clearly states both capability and trigger condition with concrete, distinguishable actions. It is a strong model description with no notable weaknesses.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — "creating pull requests, generating change files, writing PR descriptions, and keeping documentation up to date" — matching the anchor for several specific concrete actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (the enumerated shipping actions) and when ("Use this skill when contributing changes to the FAST monorepo"), satisfying the explicit-trigger requirement.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Covers natural terms a user would say ("pull requests", "PR descriptions", "change files", "documentation") within an explicit "Use this skill when contributing changes to the FAST monorepo" trigger.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Scoped tightly to FAST monorepo shipping (PRs, Beachball change files, docs), giving it a clear niche unlikely to trigger for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 1 missing, 1 deeper-than-1-level, 10 suspicious	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: microsoft/fast
Path: .github/skills/shipping/SKILL.md
Commit: 27a4304

Reviewed: 1 day ago

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