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brainstorming

Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured questioning and alternative exploration. Useful early in concept work.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

85%

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

The body is a clean, concise catalogue entry that points to an upstream bundle with clear navigation and a straightforward workflow; its only real weakness is actionability, since the actual install step is left to an external README rather than given concretely.

Suggestions

Provide a concrete install command or explicit path example for placing the upstream bundle into the skills directory, instead of deferring entirely to the upstream README, to raise actionability to 3.

If exact paths vary, include a short inline example of the expected target directory layout so the instruction is actionable without an external round-trip.

Optionally list the upstream bundle's key assets/scripts/references by name so the agent knows what it is installing before fetching the README.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean and under 50 lines with tight sections (What it does, Source, How to use); it explains nothing Claude already knows and every section earns its place, matching the score-3 'lean and efficient' anchor.

3 / 3

Actionability

It gives one executable command (open <url>) and a clear invocation instruction, but the core 'install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory' step is deferred to an external README with no actual install command or paths, matching score 2's 'some concrete guidance but incomplete'.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

As a simple single-purpose catalogue entry it lays out a clear sequence (advertised for discovery, install upstream, invoke by name or trigger phrase) with no risky or batch operations requiring validation, so the simple-skill carve-out allows a 3.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

It is under 50 lines with well-organized sections and a single clearly-signaled one-level reference to the upstream repo; no bundle files are present to misorganize, so per the simple-skill guidance well-organized sections alone justify a 3.

3 / 3

Total

11

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12

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Description

50%

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 clear and concise, naming the skill's domain and two methods, but it sits at a uniform mid-level across dimensions: it lacks explicit user-trigger guidance and comprehensive natural keywords, which caps completeness and trigger-term quality at 2.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with user-facing triggers (e.g. 'Use when brainstorming, exploring design alternatives, or turning rough ideas into a structured design') to lift completeness and distinctiveness to 3.

Broaden natural trigger terms in the description (brainstorm, ideate, design alternatives, concept exploration) so trigger_term_quality reaches full coverage rather than partial.

Enumerate one or two more concrete actions the skill performs (e.g. 'generates design options', 'maps constraints to alternatives') to push specificity toward the score-3 multi-action anchor.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the domain and a couple of concrete methods ("structured questioning and alternative exploration"), matching the score-2 anchor that names a domain and some actions but is not comprehensive; it is not vague enough for 1 nor a multi-action enumeration like the score-3 example.

2 / 3

Completeness

It answers "what" clearly, and "Useful early in concept work" gives a contextual when, but it offers no explicit user-trigger guidance, so per the guideline a missing explicit trigger clause caps completeness at 2 rather than 3.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

It contains some natural phrases ("rough ideas", "concept work") but lacks the broad coverage of terms a user would say (e.g. "brainstorm", "ideate"), matching score 2's "some relevant keywords but missing common variations".

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The brainstorming/design niche is reasonably specific, but without explicit distinct triggers it could still overlap with other ideation or design skills, matching the score-2 anchor of "somewhat specific but could still overlap".

2 / 3

Total

8

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12

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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
nexu-io/open-design
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