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short-drama-hook-engineering

Use for short-drama, trailer, and retention-first storytelling that must land a hard hook in the first 1-3 seconds and keep escalation pressure inside each clip.

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Quality

71%

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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 skill body is concise, well-structured, and clearly scoped for a simple single-purpose task; its main gap is the absence of concrete examples that would make the heuristics directly actionable.

Suggestions

Add 1-2 short example hooks or before/after beat pairs illustrating 'start as late as possible' and 'exit bridge' so the rules are immediately applicable.

Optionally include a one-line 'good vs bad opening' contrast under Hook Rules to ground the abstract directives.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean bullet-point guidance with no padding and no explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every line earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

Directives are specific ('first 1-3 seconds', 'every 2 seconds', a concrete emotion list, an 'Avoid' list) but there are no concrete examples (e.g., sample hook lines or before/after beats) demonstrating how to apply the rules.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

As a simple, single-purpose skill the content is clearly organized into well-labeled sections (Hook Rules, Editorial Rhythm, Writing Heuristics, Avoid) with unambiguous guidance and no destructive batch steps requiring validation checkpoints.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

At under 50 lines with no need for external references and no bundle files, the well-organized section structure satisfies progressive disclosure for a skill of this size.

3 / 3

Total

11

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12

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Description

57%

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 carves out a clear, distinct niche with an explicit trigger, but it blends the 'what' and 'when' and stops short of enumerating concrete capabilities or a fuller set of natural trigger terms.

Suggestions

Separate the 'what' from the 'when': lead with concrete actions the skill performs (e.g., engineer hard hooks, pace escalation, shape clips into hook-escalation-exit beats), then add a 'Use when...' clause.

Broaden trigger terms with natural variations users would say, such as 'short drama scripts, vertical drama, reels, trailers, teaser clips'.

Trim jargon like 'retention-first storytelling' and 'escalation pressure inside each clip' in favor of plain trigger phrasing.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('short-drama, trailer, and retention-first storytelling') and a couple of actions ('land a hard hook', 'keep escalation pressure') but does not list multiple distinct concrete capabilities the way a score-3 anchor does.

2 / 3

Completeness

An explicit 'Use for' trigger answers 'when', but the 'what' is only implied through blended context rather than a separate statement of the skill's concrete actions, so it does not clearly answer both what and when.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms a user would say ('short-drama', 'trailer') but mixes in jargon ('retention-first storytelling', 'escalation pressure inside each clip') and lacks common variations, so coverage is partial rather than complete.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The short-drama hook/retention niche is specific with distinct triggers and is unlikely to overlap with or wrongly trigger other skills.

3 / 3

Total

9

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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

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Total

15

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16

Passed

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