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Generate slide deck presentations from briefs — use when you need slides, pitch decks, or visual summaries

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Quality

Content

70%

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

The content is a well-structured, actionable pipeline with a strong approval gate, but it carries some redundancy in the example workflows and leaves the PPTX rendering step underspecified.

Suggestions

Tighten or remove the Example Workflows section since it restates the pipeline already documented in the Pipeline section.

Make Step 4 more executable by specifying how to call document-skills:pptx (e.g. the exact invocation or the markdown-to-slide mapping convention) rather than only describing the outcome.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient with bullet structure and no concept explanations Claude already knows, but the three Example Workflows essentially restate the 4-step pipeline already detailed above, adding redundancy that could be trimmed.	2 / 3
Actionability	Steps 1–3 give concrete, specific guidance (exact AskUserQuestion options, an outline template, filename examples), but Step 4 delegates PPTX rendering to the document-skills:pptx skill without specifying how to invoke it or map markdown to slides.	2 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The 4-step pipeline is clearly sequenced with an explicit validation checkpoint — the "wireframe gate" requiring user approval of the outline before rendering — plus feedback loops (add more / change focus / start over).	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The skill is a single, well-organized SKILL.md with clearly labeled sections and no nested or multi-level references; with no bundle files present, the one-file structure is appropriate for an overview/pipeline skill.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

80%

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 cleanly answers both what and when with strong, natural trigger terms and a clear niche. Its main weakness is the single action verb combined with second-person voice, which caps specificity.

Suggestions

Rewrite in third person to avoid the second-person penalty, e.g. "Generates slide deck presentations from briefs. Use when the user requests slides, pitch decks, or visual summaries."

List multiple concrete actions to lift specificity, e.g. "...researches the topic, drafts a slide-by-slide outline, and exports PPTX."

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description names the domain and one action ("Generate slide deck presentations from briefs") but lists only a single concrete action rather than multiple. Per the rubric, the second-person phrasing "use when you need" reduces the specificity score by 1, dropping it from a base of 2 to 1.	1 / 3
Completeness	It states both what it does ("Generate slide deck presentations from briefs") and when to use it ("use when you need slides, pitch decks, or visual summaries"), with an explicit trigger clause.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"slides, pitch decks, or visual summaries" are natural terms a user would say when requesting this skill, giving good coverage of common variations.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Slide/pitch-deck generation from briefs is a clear niche with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: nyldn/claude-octopus
Path: .claude/skills/skill-deck/SKILL.md
Commit: 9f39f0c

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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