manage-channels

Wire channels to agent groups, manage isolation levels, add new channel groups. Use after adding a channel, during setup, or standalone to reconfigure.

Quality

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An information-dense, highly actionable operational skill with strong progressive disclosure and clear sequencing. Its main gap is the missing verification step in the destructive 'Change Wiring' workflow, which caps workflow clarity.

Suggestions

Add an explicit verification checkpoint to 'Change Wiring': after deleting the old messaging_group_agents row and creating the new one, re-query the wiring to confirm the channel now routes to the intended agent group before declaring success.

In 'Change Wiring', make the manual agent_destinations cleanup a numbered step with the exact delete query rather than a prose aside, so the destructive follow-through is unambiguous.

Consider a short 'Verify' note after the register/pair steps (e.g., re-run the canonical wiring query to confirm the new row exists) to add a feedback loop to the creation workflows.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Dense, domain-specific operational detail with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every section (canonical queries, two-level model, threading consequences) carries non-obvious information that earns its tokens.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides fully executable commands — `pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "<query>"`, exact SQL, `ncl messaging-groups create ...` and the `register` invocation with concrete flags — copy-paste ready with specific examples.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Sections are well sequenced (Assess → First Channel → Wire → Add Group → Change Wiring → One-Time Check → Show), but the destructive 'Change Wiring' flow (delete old row, create new, manually delete agent_destinations) lacks an explicit verification checkpoint, capping this dimension at 2 per the destructive-operations guideline.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Appropriately delegates the detailed isolation model to `docs/isolation-model.md` and per-channel specifics to each channel's SKILL.md `## Channel Info`, keeping references one level deep and clearly signaled with well-organized section navigation.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 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 concrete capabilities and an explicit use-when trigger clause. It assumes its audience's domain vocabulary and avoids generic fluff.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists three concrete, distinct actions — 'Wire channels to agent groups', 'manage isolation levels', 'add new channel groups' — matching the anchor for multiple specific concrete actions rather than the partial-action anchor at 2.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (the three wiring actions) and when via the explicit 'Use after adding a channel, during setup, or standalone to reconfigure' trigger clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Uses natural terms a user of this system would say — 'channels', 'channel groups', 'adding a channel', 'setup', 'reconfigure' — giving good coverage of likely phrasings.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (channel-to-agent-group wiring and isolation) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire 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
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 2 missing	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: nanocoai/nanoclaw
Path: .claude/skills/manage-channels/SKILL.md
Commit: 641963c

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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