novu-trigger-notification

Trigger Novu notification workflows to send messages across email, SMS, push, chat, and in-app channels. Supports single triggers, bulk triggers, broadcast to all subscribers, topic-based targeting, and cancellation. Use when sending transactional notifications, alerts, or any event-driven messages.

Quality

100%

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Passed

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Quality

Content

100%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is an efficient, actionable overview with executable code for each trigger variant, a parameters table, practical pitfalls, and a clean set of verified one-level references. It respects the context budget while remaining copy-paste ready.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean: minimal preamble followed by tight, purposeful code per variant, a compact parameters table, pitfalls, and references, with no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows.	3 / 3
Actionability	Every section ships complete, executable TypeScript (imports, constructor, full trigger calls with realistic payloads), plus a parameters table and a full overrides example — copy-paste ready.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	As a single-purpose skill with clearly labeled, unambiguous variants and guardrails (e.g. the 100-event bulk limit and transactionId-for-cancellation pitfalls), the action sequence is clear without needing a multi-step validation loop.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body is an overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references to five verified files in ./references/ (installation, single/bulk/topic-trigger examples, best-practices), with content appropriately split for easy navigation.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

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 concise, specific, and complete, naming concrete actions, channels, and trigger variants while including an explicit Use-when clause. It is clearly distinguishable as a Novu-notification-specific skill.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions across five channels ("email, SMS, push, chat, and in-app") and multiple trigger modes ("single triggers, bulk triggers, broadcast to all subscribers, topic-based targeting, and cancellation").	3 / 3
Completeness	Answers both "what" (trigger workflows, channels, trigger types) and an explicit "when" clause ("Use when sending transactional notifications, alerts, or any event-driven messages").	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Uses natural phrasing users would actually say ("send messages", "transactional notifications", "alerts", "event-driven messages") plus explicit channel names, giving broad coverage.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The named Novu product and notification-specific trigger vocabulary define a clear niche unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 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: novuhq/novu
Path: docs/.mintlify/skills/trigger-notification/SKILL.md
Commit: d921755

Reviewed: about 13 hours ago

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