Name: update-cnw-templates
Rating: 74.4 (1 reviews)
Author: nrwl

update-cnw-templates

Update the CNW (create-nx-workspace) template repos (nrwl/empty-template, nrwl/react-template, etc.) to a target nx version via nx migrate, verify each repo, and open a PR per repo. Clones repos it needs - assumes no local checkout. Use when asked to "update the CNW templates", "migrate the templates to nx X", "bump the template repos", or given a version like "update templates to 23.2.0".

Quality

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Content

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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 content is highly actionable and the workflow is clearly sequenced with strong validation gates for a risky batch operation. The main weakness is progressive disclosure: the referenced helper script run-all-templates.sh is claimed to be bundled but is absent, creating a dead-end at step 6.

Suggestions

Bundle the referenced run-all-templates.sh script in a scripts/ directory so the step-6 sanity check is actually runnable, or remove the reference and inline the scaffolding command.

Tighten the intro paragraph and the Polygraph session subsection to reduce contextual prose that does not directly drive action.

Make the PR curl body template more concrete (e.g., a literal JSON skeleton with a single placeholder) rather than the free-text '<per-repo summary: old->new nx, migrations run>' placeholder.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Largely lean with copy-paste commands and tables and no basic-concept over-explanation; the intro paragraph and the Polygraph session section carry slightly more contextual prose than strictly required, so it sits just below the fully-lean anchor rather than at 5.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands throughout (npm view, curl liveness checks, git clone/checkout/status/reset, nx migrate, nx run-many with real flags, git commit/push, curl POST for draft PR) covering the common cases with appropriate templated placeholders.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clearly sequenced 7-step procedure with explicit validation checkpoints (clean-tree gate in step 2, live-repo 200/404 checks in step 1, verify gate in step 4) and feedback loops ('revert that repo and report' on failure, 'never open a red PR'), satisfying the level-5 anchor for a batch/destructive operation.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The body is well-organized into clear sections and signals one external reference — `run-all-templates.sh` ('bundled next to this file') — but that referenced script is not present in the bundle (no scripts/ directory, no such file), so the one cross-file reference is broken, undermining navigation.	3 / 5
	Total	17 / 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.

The description is specific, third-person, and clearly answers both what the skill does and when to invoke it, with concrete natural-language trigger phrases. It is a strong, low-conflict description with no over-claims or fluff.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names multiple concrete actions — 'update ... to a target nx version via nx migrate', 'verify each repo', 'open a PR per repo', 'Clones repos it needs' — covering the full lifecycle comprehensively, matching the level-5 anchor.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly states what it does (migrate, verify, open PR, clone) and when to use it via a concrete 'Use when ...' clause with quoted trigger phrases, satisfying the level-5 anchor for both what and when.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Provides four natural user phrasings as triggers — "update the CNW templates", "migrate the templates to nx X", "bump the template repos", "update templates to 23.2.0" — with synonyms (update/migrate/bump); no file-extension domain applies here, so synonym coverage meets the comprehensive anchor.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Targets a narrow, named niche (CNW/create-nx-workspace template repos under nrwl/, nx migrate) with distinct triggers and minimal realistic overlap with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	20 / 20 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
allowed_tools_field	'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: nrwl/nx
Path: .claude/skills/update-cnw-templates/SKILL.md
Commit: 9064aa9

Reviewed: about 5 hours ago

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