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suggest-automations

Offer the three most common automations for a user as a single-choice card, from your own knowledge of their team and their apps, then build the one they choose once they confirm, or offer more. The system preloads it on onboarding threads, where the opening card already asked the user about themselves. Use it on other threads when the user asks what they could automate or wants ideas for a first workflow.

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.

This is a strong instruction-only skill body: fully executable dialogue guidance with exact templates, a clearly sequenced five-step flow that handles every answer branch including non-answers, and disciplined confirmation gates before building. The only notable improvements are trimming minor redundant reminders and adding a short overview or splitting card-formatting rules out of step 2 for easier navigation.

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Conciseness

The body is dense and prescriptive with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows; nearly every line is actionable instruction. Minor tightening is possible — e.g., "Never add 'Something else', 'Share more context' or 'None of these' as an option" partially duplicates step 4's note about the card's built-in "Something else" row — so it sits at efficient-with-minor-trim rather than the every-token-earns-its-place anchor.

4 / 5

Actionability

For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully executable: exact question texts with option lists ("What team are you on?" with Executive/Owner, Support, ...), exact card strings, a formatted example option ("Capture new leads\nMove new enquiries into your sales process so nothing gets missed."), exact reply templates, and explicit parameter settings ("required: true", "Leave introMessage out"). Copy-paste-ready phrasing covers the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The five-step flow sequences clearly with explicit checkpoints: every branch of every card answer is handled (suggestion, "Show me other ideas", free-text task, free-text change, skip, "answered: false", "Not now"), a hard confirmation gate ("A build needs 'Yes, build it'") validates before the risky action (building), and "Not now" loops back to step 2 as an error-recovery feedback loop, with the Rules section acting as a checklist.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well organized into Input, Flow, and Rules sections, keeps everything needed for the conversational policy inline, and appropriately delegates build details to the separate workflow-builder skill rather than duplicating them. It falls just short of the top anchor: there is no brief overview before "## Input", and step 2 mixes card-composition rules into the flow, making the long file slightly harder to navigate.

4 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Description

78%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 explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it, with natural trigger phrases and a distinct niche. Its main weaknesses are the second-person phrase "from your own knowledge" (voice penalty) and missing natural terms such as the product name and common synonyms for automation requests.

Suggestions

Rewrite "from your own knowledge of their team and their apps" in third person (e.g., "based on the user's team and apps") to avoid the second-person voice penalty.

Add the product name and natural synonyms users would say, e.g., "Use when the user asks about n8n, wants ideas for their first workflow, or asks what they could automate."

Name the domain (n8n) in the capability sentence to further reduce overlap risk with generic workflow-suggestion skills.

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Specificity

Concrete actions are listed — "Offer the three most common automations", "build the one they choose once they confirm", "or offer more" — which on content alone fits anchor 4. However, the phrase "from your own knowledge of their team and their apps" uses second-person voice ("your"), which the judging guidelines penalize by reducing the specificity score by 1.

3 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are explicit: the what is "Offer the three most common automations ... then build the one they choose once they confirm, or offer more", and the when is a concrete "Use it on other threads when the user asks what they could automate or wants ideas for a first workflow" plus the onboarding-thread preload context. This clearly matches the anchor for explicit what AND when with concrete triggers.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural trigger phrases are present — "when the user asks what they could automate", "wants ideas for a first workflow" — matching what a user would actually say. A few natural terms are missing, most notably the product name (n8n) and variations like "automate repetitive tasks", so it does not reach comprehensive anchor-5 coverage.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche — suggesting and building automations, preloaded on onboarding threads — is distinct with clear triggers. Minor overlap risk remains with generic workflow-idea or automation-building skills because the description never names the product domain (n8n), keeping it just short of the minimal-conflict anchor.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

n8n-io/n8n

Path

packages/@n8n/instance-ai/skills/suggest-automations/SKILL.md

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