create-site

Creates a new Power Pages code site (SPA) using React, Angular, Vue, or Astro. Guides through the full process from initial concept to deployed site: requirements discovery, scaffolding, component planning, design, implementation, validation, and deployment. Use when the user wants to create, build, or scaffold a new Power Pages website or portal.

Quality

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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 thorough, highly actionable multi-phase workflow with excellent sequencing and validation gates. Its main weakness is verbosity from repeated inline material and bulky sections that would benefit from extraction into reference files.

Suggestions

Extract the Live Preview Status Protocol and the AI-summary marker placement tables into a reference file (e.g. references/live-preview-protocol.md) and link to them once, removing the inline restatements and the duplicated example-workflow phase narration.

Cut the worked Example Workflow section at the bottom — it re-narrates phases already detailed above and adds length without new executable guidance.

Tighten repeated approval-gate prose: the gate blockquotes and the 'Important Notes / Key Decision Points' list overlap; consolidate into one source of truth.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly operational and concrete rather than padded with concepts Claude knows, but the ~800-line body repeats material (Live Preview Status Protocol described in its own section and re-stated inline, phases re-narrated in the example workflow) that could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete, mostly copy-paste-ready commands and scripts (npm install, git init, render-createsite-plan.js with --data-inline, axe-audit.js invocations, per-framework marker syntax tables), with only minor gaps such as no inline sample page/component code.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Eight phases are clearly sequenced with explicit GATE checkpoints ('Do NOT proceed until ALL of the following are true'), feedback loops (axe audit → fix → re-run until exit code 0), and git-revert safety for the destructive wholesale scaffold replacement.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	References are real and clearly signaled one level deep (design-aesthetics.md, framework-conventions.md, approval-gates.md, render-createsite-plan.js, axe-audit.js), but substantial content that could live in separate files (the status protocol, AI-slot marker tables, full Phase 5 step list) is inlined, which is more than a minor organization gap.	3 / 5
	Total	15 / 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 strong, specific description that clearly states capabilities and triggers with concrete actions and an explicit 'Use when' clause. Minor trigger-term breadth (synonyms/extensions) keeps it just below a perfect profile.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists a comprehensive set of concrete actions — 'requirements discovery, scaffolding, component planning, design, implementation, validation, and deployment' — spanning the full lifecycle, matching the multiple-specific-actions/comprehensive-coverage anchor.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (creates a Power Pages SPA across four frameworks, guides full process) and 'when' ('Use when the user wants to create, build, or scaffold a new Power Pages website or portal') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural phrases users would say ('create, build, or scaffold a new Power Pages website or portal') are present and relevant, but coverage stops short of the synonym/extension comprehensiveness of the score-5 anchor.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche — Power Pages code-site scaffolding with an explicit framework list and specific triggers — giving it minimal overlap with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

75%

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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 — 12 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (818 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning
allowed_tools_field	'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 1 missing	Warning

	Total	12 / 16 Passed

Repository: microsoft/power-platform-skills
Path: plugins/power-pages/skills/create-site/SKILL.md
Commit: 4c284ab

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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