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novu-design-workflow

Design notification workflows the Novu way — choose channels, set severity, decide when a workflow is critical, configure digests, and route based on subscriber state. Applies to BOTH dashboard-authored and code-first (`@novu/framework`) workflows. Use when planning a new workflow, deciding which channels to include, picking severity, configuring digest behavior, or matching a use case (order confirmation, payment failed, account suspended, comment, trial expiring, password reset, webhook fan-out, fetch-then-notify) to a proven template.

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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 strong, decision-oriented reference: concrete defaults, tables, a copy-paste snippet, and clean progressive disclosure into five real reference files. The only weaknesses are repeated severity/critical/digest rules across three sections and an implied rather than explicit design sequence.

Suggestions

State the severity/critical⇒digest interaction once (in Severity & Critical or Digest Defaults) and have the other sections reference it, trimming the repetition across lines 39-40, 80-83, and Pitfall 5.

Add a short numbered design procedure at the top (identify use case → match template → apply channel rules → set severity/critical → configure digest) so the section order becomes an explicit workflow.

Consider collapsing the channel-priority code block and the channel table into one artifact, since both encode the same In-App > Email > Chat > Push > SMS ordering.

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Conciseness

The body is dense with tables, defaults, and rules and assumes Claude's competence (no concept explanations), but the severity/critical/digest interactions are stated three times ("critical: true ⇒ digest is automatically skipped" in Severity & Critical, "Skip the digest when: severity: HIGH, or critical: true", and Pitfall 5), which is minor trimmable repetition — anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is directly executable: an explicit channel priority order with a 3-channel cap, digest defaults down to values (type "regular", 5-minute look-back, 1-hour digest time, subscriberId + threadId key), a copy-paste JSON-Logic condition, B2B/B2C delay defaults, and a 9-row template table with step ordering — comprehensive for the common design cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Decision rules per dimension are clear and the Common Pitfalls section acts as a validation checklist, but the overall design procedure (identify use case → match template → choose channels → set severity/critical → configure digest) is only implied by section order rather than laid out as an explicit sequence with checkpoints — anchor 4, not 5.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a well-organized overview that signals five one-level-deep references inline (all five files verified to exist in ./references/), each with a reason to open it, plus a consolidated References index — clear navigation with content appropriately split.

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 is exemplary: concrete actions, an explicit use-when clause with natural trigger phrases and named use cases, and a clearly delineated niche. Third-person voice is used throughout and there is no filler.

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Specificity

The description lists five concrete actions ("choose channels, set severity, decide when a workflow is critical, configure digests, and route based on subscriber state") plus explicit dual-surface applicability ("dashboard-authored and code-first (`@novu/framework`) workflows"), matching the comprehensive-coverage anchor rather than the minor-gaps anchor below.

5 / 5

Completeness

Both questions are explicitly answered: the what is the five named design actions, and the when is a full "Use when planning a new workflow, deciding which channels to include, picking severity, configuring digest behavior, or matching a use case... to a proven template" clause with concrete triggers.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It covers natural trigger phrases users would actually say — "planning a new workflow", "deciding which channels to include", "picking severity", "configuring digest behavior" — plus concrete use-case keywords (order confirmation, payment failed, account suspended, comment, trial expiring, password reset, webhook fan-out, fetch-then-notify) and the `@novu/framework` identifier.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It carves a clear niche (designing Novu notification workflows) with distinct triggers and explicitly scopes both authoring surfaces, so it is unlikely to fire for adjacent concerns like triggering an existing workflow or writing integration code.

5 / 5

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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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Relative link issues: 11 suspicious

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