dialogue-performance-blocking

Use for dialogue scenes, emotional performance beats, actor blocking, lip-sync-driven moments, and character interaction with clear emotional progression.

Quality

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Quality

Content

72%

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A lean, well-organized instruction-only skill with concrete behavioral categories and decision rules. It is held back by the absence of a worked example and a lack of explicit end-to-end sequencing or alignment-check checkpoints.

Suggestions

Add one short worked example: a sample line with its objective, subtext, emotional vector, and resulting body/facial behavior plus camera proximity, so the per-line template is demonstrated end-to-end and actionability reaches 3.

Insert an explicit sequenced workflow (analyze the scene -> assign per-line objectives/subtext -> block movement and framing -> verify lip-sync/emotional-arc alignment) with a final 'check that arcs and lip-sync align' checkpoint to lift workflow_clarity to 3.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is a lean set of bullets and rules that assumes Claude knows what blocking, subtext, and lip-sync are, with no padding or explaining of basic concepts, matching the score-3 'every token earns its place' anchor.	3 / 3
Actionability	It gives a concrete per-line template (objective / subtext / emotional vector / body behavior / facial behavior) and a decision rule ('every line should either attack, defend, reveal, conceal, or break'), but no worked example shows what finished output looks like, leaving it at 'concrete guidance but incomplete' rather than fully copy-paste-ready.	2 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The per-line 'Performance Design' template gives a partial sequence, but there is no explicit end-to-end flow from scene analysis to final blocking, and no checkpoint verifying that 'lip-sync and emotional arcs aligned' (stated in Goals) actually holds, matching the score-2 'sequence present but checkpoints missing' anchor.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The skill is under 50 lines with no external references needed and is organized into clear sections (Goals, Performance Design, Blocking Rules, Dialogue Scene Rules, Lip Sync / Voice Rules), so per the simple-skills scoring note it earns 3 on well-organized sections alone.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

72%

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A well-targeted, niche description with explicit trigger guidance and low conflict risk. Its main weakness is that it states when to use the skill far more clearly than what the skill produces.

Suggestions

Add a concrete action verb + output before the 'Use for' clause, e.g. 'Designs actor blocking and emotional performance beats for dialogue scenes. Use for ...', so 'what it does' is explicit and completeness/specificity reach 3.

Keep the natural domain keywords but pair each with the produced artifact (e.g. 'blocking plans', 'performance notes', 'lip-sync timing') to turn domain references into concrete capabilities.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description names the domain richly ('dialogue scenes, emotional performance beats, actor blocking, lip-sync-driven moments, and character interaction') but uses no concrete action verbs describing what the skill produces, so it matches 'names domain and some actions, but not comprehensive' rather than the multi-action score-3 anchor.	2 / 3
Completeness	The 'Use for ...' clause explicitly answers when to invoke the skill, but what it actually outputs (a blocking plan, performance notes) is only implied, so it does not reach the score-3 'clearly answers both what AND when' anchor; it is above 1 because the 'when' is explicit and strong.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Terms a video/film user would naturally say ('dialogue scenes', 'actor blocking', 'lip-sync', 'character interaction') give good coverage of natural trigger language for this niche, matching the score-3 anchor despite slight specialization.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The niche (dialogue performance/blocking with lip-sync and emotional arcs) is clearly bounded with distinct triggers unlikely to collide with other skills, matching the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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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: nolanx-ai/nolanx.ai
Path: .nolanx/skills/dialogue-performance-blocking/SKILL.md
Commit: 595d863

Reviewed: about 12 hours ago

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