delegation

Helps users delegate tasks, break them into steps, set deadlines, and track progress via routines and memory.

Quality

80%

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Quality

Content

100%

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

The skill body is a concise, well-sequenced instruction set with concrete tool references, specific data structures, and explicit confirmation checkpoints. It needs no external bundle files at this scope and reads as actionable guidance rather than padded explanation.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and action-oriented throughout, assuming Claude's competence without explaining what routines, memory, or task tracking are, so every section earns its place.	3 / 3
Actionability	Concrete tool calls (memory_write, builtin__trigger_create), specific paths (tasks/{task-name}.md, USER.md), a structured task-file schema, and explicit proactivity levels give actionable guidance; for an instruction-only skill this satisfies the rubric without code.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The six-step process is clearly sequenced and includes explicit checkpoints such as 'Always confirm the plan with the user before starting execution' and confirming understanding on ambiguous requests; no destructive or batch operations trigger a cap.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	At under 50 lines with no external references needed and no bundle files present, the well-organized sectioned structure satisfies the simple-skill allowance for full progressive-disclosure credit.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

60%

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 states clearly what the skill does through several concrete actions but omits any explicit 'when to use' trigger guidance, leaving the activation context implicit. Adding a 'Use when...' clause with natural trigger phrases would lift completeness and trigger-term quality.

Suggestions

Append a 'Use when...' clause with natural trigger phrases, e.g. 'Use when the user wants to delegate, hand off, assign, or schedule tasks and follow-ups.'

Expand trigger coverage in the description with common variations users actually say ('remind me to', 'take over', 'assign this', 'follow up on') rather than relying on the activation block alone.

Sharpen distinctiveness by contrasting delegation from plain reminders, e.g. noting it breaks work into trackable steps rather than just firing alerts.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'delegate tasks, break them into steps, set deadlines, and track progress via routines and memory' — matching the anchor for naming several specific actions, above the single-domain level 2.	3 / 3
Completeness	The 'what' is clearly stated but the 'when' is entirely absent — no explicit trigger guidance — which per the rubric caps completeness at 2.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Only 'delegate tasks' reads as a natural user phrase; there is no 'Use when...' framing or coverage of common variations like 'remind me', 'take over', or 'assign', so it sits at the partial-keywords level rather than full coverage.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Delegation is a recognizable niche but the broad task-management framing overlaps with reminder and scheduling skills and lacks distinct triggers, matching the 'somewhat specific but could still overlap' anchor.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 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
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: nearai/ironclaw
Path: skills/delegation/SKILL.md
Commit: b60038b

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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