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tooluniverse-primer-design

PCR / qPCR primer and oligo design — design forward/reverse primers for a target region (SantaLucia nearest-neighbor thermodynamics), compute melting temperature (Tm) and annealing temperature (Ta), check GC content, and screen an oligo for hairpins and primer-dimers. Use when you need primers for a sequence, want to QC an existing primer pair, or need the Tm of an oligo. Covers the primer-design rules (Tm matching, GC clamp, 3'-end, length) and the tools' constraint quirks.

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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.

The body is an efficient, executable guide: complete commands, a rules checklist, a working QC script, an explicit specificity validation step, and error-recovery guidance for the tool's constraint quirks. Structure is clean with a single well-signaled bundle reference.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and dense with non-obvious, task-specific knowledge (constraint quirks, Tm-method caveats, specificity warning) and never pads with concepts Claude already knows; tables and callouts carry information efficiently.

5 / 5

Actionability

Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready `tu run` commands with complete JSON arguments for both primer design and Tm calculation, plus a runnable QC script with documented usage covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear five-step sequence (design → Tm/Ta → rules → specificity → gotchas) with an explicit validation step (QC script in Step 3, genome-specificity check in Step 4) and a feedback loop mapping concrete error messages to fixes in the constraint-quirk callout.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized overview with clearly signaled, one-level-deep reference to the real bundle file `scripts/primer_qc.py` (verified present); detailed QC logic is offloaded to the script rather than inlined, and there are no nested references.

5 / 5

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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.

The description is concrete, comprehensive, and uses third-person voice with an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause covering multiple natural request phrasings. It occupies a clear, low-conflict niche.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'design forward/reverse primers', 'compute melting temperature (Tm) and annealing temperature (Ta)', 'check GC content', 'screen an oligo for hairpins and primer-dimers' — covering the skill comprehensively with no vague filler.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (design primers, compute Tm/Ta, check GC, screen for secondary structure) and when ('Use when you need primers for a sequence, want to QC an existing primer pair, or need the Tm of an oligo') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user-facing terms appear throughout with synonyms — 'PCR / qPCR', 'primers', 'oligo', 'Tm', 'Ta', 'QC an existing primer pair', 'hairpins and primer-dimers' — matching how a user would actually request this.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The PCR/qPCR primer-and-oligo design niche is specific and unlikely to overlap with other skills; its triggers (primer design, Tm of an oligo, QC a primer pair) are distinct.

5 / 5

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