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

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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.

A well-structured, highly actionable body with executable examples and sound progressive disclosure, weakened mainly by missing validation/feedback loops for its batch and broadcast operations. Tightening the redundant intro and adding verification steps for bulk/broadcast would raise it further.

Suggestions

Add a validation/feedback step for batch operations — e.g. check triggerBulk/triggerBroadcast response statuses and retry or surface failures — to lift workflow_clarity above the batch cap.

Show a chunking example for batches larger than 100 events rather than only mentioning the limit in Common Pitfalls.

Trim the redundant opening paragraph that restates the description and the section headers, or fold it into a single one-line orientation.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Largely lean and code-first with no padding about concepts Claude already knows, but the opening line ('Send notifications by triggering Novu workflows. Supports single, bulk, broadcast, and topic-based delivery.') repeats the description and the section headers that immediately follow.	4 / 5
Actionability	Fully executable, copy-paste-ready TypeScript using the real '@novu/api' SDK across setup, single, inline-subscriber, transaction-id, bulk, broadcast, topic, cancel, and overrides — covering the common cases comprehensively.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Sections are clearly organized by task type, but batch and broadcast operations (bulk up to 100 events, broadcast to all subscribers) lack validation/verification checkpoints or feedback loops, so the rubric's batch-operations cap applies.	3 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Clear sections plus a dedicated References block pointing to one-level-deep, verified files (installation, single/bulk/topic examples, best-practices), with only minor overlap between the inline examples and the example reference files.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 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.

A strong, third-person description that clearly states both capability and trigger conditions with concrete, comprehensive actions and explicit 'Use when' guidance. Minor room to broaden natural-language synonyms.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'single triggers, bulk triggers, broadcast to all subscribers, topic-based targeting, and cancellation' — plus five named channels, giving comprehensive coverage of the trigger-side capabilities.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers what ('Trigger Novu notification workflows to send messages across... channels') and when ('Use when sending transactional notifications, alerts, or any event-driven messages') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Good natural keyword coverage with 'notifications', 'alerts', 'transactional notifications', 'event-driven messages', and the channel list, but a few common variations (e.g. 'push notifications', 'notify subscribers') are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Scoped to a specific platform ('Novu notification workflows') with distinct trigger phrases, giving a clear niche and minimal overlap risk with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 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: novuhq/novu
Path: docs/.mintlify/skills/trigger-notification/SKILL.md
Commit: fc9a0fd

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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