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todo-write

TodoWrite-driven plan that the agent commits to before generation.

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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.

The body is a tight, well-structured instruction skill: it defines the plan-first workflow, gives four concrete behavioral rules, and handles tool-name portability. Its only real weaknesses are a thin example (no sample todo list) and a closing paragraph of host-context detail that could be trimmed.

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Conciseness

The body is lean (~25 lines) with four tight one-line rules like 'Keep todos atomic (one verb per todo)' and 'Mark a todo complete only after the matching artifact lands' — every rule earns its place. It dips below a 5 because the final paragraph spends lines on host-rendering background ('The host renders every one of them as the same live Todos card') that the executing agent does not need to act.

4 / 5

Actionability

For an instruction-only skill the guidance is concrete and executable: 'one verb per todo', 'Mark a todo complete only after the matching artifact lands', 'Surface blockers as todos — never silently skip', plus the rule to use 'whichever plan tool this session actually exposes'. Not a 5 because there is no example of a good vs. bad todo list, and 'Reorder freely as the picture sharpens' is a soft hint rather than a directive; not a 3 because the numbered rules are genuinely specific behavioral instructions, not pseudocode.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

This is a simple single-purpose skill under 50 lines, and the lifecycle is unambiguous: commit to a numbered plan before writing any artifact file, then each turn 'either tick items off or rewrite the plan', with the explicit checkpoint 'Mark a todo complete only after the matching artifact lands' and 'Surface blockers as todos — never silently skip'. The simple-skill exception applies; the operations are non-destructive so no validation cap applies. Not a 4 only because nothing in the sequence is implicit.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is under 50 lines with no external references needed, and the body is well organized: a one-paragraph framing, a numbered rule list, and a short closing paragraph — the rubric's guideline 'For skills under 50 lines with no need for external references, progressive disclosure can score 5 with just well-organized sections' applies directly. There are no bundle files (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ exist), and no buried or nested references anywhere.

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 identifies the skill's core idea (commit to a TodoWrite plan before generating artifacts) but reads like an internal design note rather than a trigger-facing description. It completely lacks a 'when to use this' clause and natural trigger phrases, which the rubric weights most heavily (completeness 0.35, triggers 0.3).

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g. 'Use when starting any multi-step artifact workflow, before the first file is written' — the missing trigger clause caps completeness at 3.

Surface the body's concrete behaviors in the description: 'keep todos atomic (one verb per todo), tick items off or rewrite the plan each turn, mark complete only after the artifact lands, surface blockers as todos' — this would raise specificity from naming-the-domain to listing concrete actions.

Include natural trigger terms users would actually say ('make a plan first', 'todo list', 'plan before you start', 'break the task down'), since the current description only has the tool jargon 'TodoWrite' plus 'plan'.

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Specificity

The phrase 'TodoWrite-driven plan that the agent commits to before generation' names the domain (planning via the TodoWrite/plan tool) but offers only one generic action ('commits to a plan'), matching the anchor 'Names the domain but actions are minimal or generic'. It is not a 1 because it does reference a concrete tool and artifact (plan), but it lists none of the specific behaviors the body actually teaches (atomic todos, blockers surfaced as todos, completion only after artifact lands).

2 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is reasonably clear (the agent commits to a numbered plan before generation), but there is no 'Use when...' or equivalent trigger clause anywhere, matching the anchor 'Has a clear what but when is missing or only weakly implied'. The judging guidelines explicitly cap completeness at 3 for a missing 'Use when' clause, ruling out 4; it is above 2 because the what is not vague — it names the tool, the artifact (numbered plan), and the timing (before generation).

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Only 'TodoWrite' (tool jargon) and 'plan' appear — one or two keywords, missing the natural phrases a user would say ('make a plan', 'todo list', 'break this into steps', 'before you start'). Matches the anchor 'One or two generic keywords; missing the natural phrases users say'; not a 3 because there is no cluster of relevant keywords or synonyms, and not a 1 because 'plan' is a genuinely natural term rather than pure jargon.

2 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'TodoWrite-driven plan' has a distinctive hook (a specific tool name), but 'plan before generation' overlaps broadly with any planning, task-management, or workflow skill, matching 'Somewhat specific but could still overlap with similar skills'. Not a 4 because nothing in the description bounds it to this skill's niche (pre-artifact planning for the OpenDesign host) versus generic planning advice.

3 / 5

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Validation

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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

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