venice-audio-speech

Text-to-speech models, voices, formats, and streaming via Venice.ai. Useful for narration, voiceover, and conversational agent voices.

Quality

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Quality

Content

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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 tidy, well-structured catalogue pointer that efficiently advertises an upstream skill, but it is not itself actionable — the actual installation and TTS execution steps are absent and deferred entirely to an external repo.

Suggestions

Add the concrete install steps (e.g., `git clone https://github.com/veniceai/skills <skills-dir>/venice-audio-speech`) so the 'install the upstream bundle' instruction is executable.

Drop the duplicated 'What it does' line (it repeats the frontmatter description verbatim) to tighten conciseness.

Replace the macOS-only `open` command with a portable reference or a `git clone` so the guidance works across platforms.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence, with only minor trimmable redundancy such as the 'What it does' line duplicating the frontmatter description verbatim and the 'Curated from the Venice.ai team' flourish.	4 / 5
Actionability	It offers minimal concrete guidance — the only executable command is `open https://github.com/veniceai/skills`, while the central 'install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory' instruction lacks the specific steps (e.g., git clone, target path) to actually execute.	2 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A rough discover → install → invoke sequence is implied, but the key install step is poorly defined with no concrete commands and no validation checkpoints, leaving significant gaps.	2 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into clear sections (What it does, Source, How to use) with a clearly signaled one-level-deep pointer to the upstream repo; no local bundle files exist to structure, so the only gap is total reliance on an external URL rather than local references.	4 / 5
	Total	12 / 20 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.

The description is specific and distinctive, naming a clear Venice.ai TTS niche with solid natural trigger terms, but it stops short of directive 'Use when...' guidance and lists aspects rather than concrete actions.

Suggestions

Convert 'Useful for narration, voiceover...' into an explicit 'Use when the user needs narration, voiceover, or conversational agent voices...' clause to lift completeness.

Reframe the aspect list as concrete actions (e.g., 'Generate speech, list voices, convert audio formats, and stream output via Venice.ai') to strengthen specificity.

Add a couple more natural synonyms (e.g., 'speech synthesis', 'read aloud') to round out trigger-term coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the TTS domain and several concrete facets ('models, voices, formats, and streaming'), but these are noun-listed aspects rather than action verbs, so it does not reach the 'lists several specific actions' anchor.	3 / 5
Completeness	It clearly states what ('Text-to-speech models, voices, formats, and streaming via Venice.ai'), but the 'when' is only the soft 'Useful for narration, voiceover...' rather than a directive 'Use when...' clause, capping completeness at 3 per the rubric guideline.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Good natural-term coverage with synonyms ('Text-to-speech', 'text to speech', 'tts') plus use-case phrases ('narration', 'voiceover', 'conversational agent voices'), though a few natural terms like 'speech synthesis' or 'read aloud' are missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	It carves a clear niche (TTS via the specific Venice.ai provider) with distinct speech/audio triggers, leaving only minor overlap risk with a generic audio-music skill.	4 / 5
	Total	14 / 20 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: nexu-io/open-design
Path: skills/venice-audio-speech/SKILL.md
Commit: 1a7a23d

Reviewed: about 3 hours ago

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