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skill-design-lineage

Persist design documents with branch tracking, revision chains, and cross-session discovery

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Quality

66%

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

65%

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

The skill is highly actionable with concrete, executable bash throughout and a clear four-step sequence. Its weaknesses are repeated setup boilerplate that inflates token cost and the absence of explicit validation checkpoints and external reference structure.

Suggestions

Factor the repeated SLUG/DESIGNS_DIR/mkdir setup into a single defined snippet referenced from each step to remove the verbatim duplication.

Add explicit verification gates — e.g., confirm the saved file exists and its frontmatter parses, and verify a supersedes target actually exists before linking.

Consider moving the design-document template and integration-notes sections into a referenced file to shorten the main body and add one-level-deep navigation.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient with no concept-over-explanation, but the SLUG/DESIGNS_DIR/mkdir setup block is repeated verbatim across Step 1, Step 2, Step 4, and the Caps section, a clear tightening opportunity.

2 / 3

Actionability

Every section provides concrete, executable bash (filename resolution, save heredoc, grep discovery, revision-chain walk, cap check) that is copy-paste ready with specific examples.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Steps 1–4 are clearly sequenced with concrete commands, but there are no explicit validation or error-recovery checkpoints (e.g., verify the saved file parses, confirm supersedes target exists), leaving checkpoints implicit.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well-organized and there are no broken nested references, but the single ~277-line file keeps the template and integration notes inline with no one-level-deep references to split material, fitting the some-structure anchor.

2 / 3

Total

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Passed

Description

67%

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 and distinctive, clearly conveying the skill's niche of versioned design-document persistence. Its main weakness is the absence of an explicit "Use when..." trigger and the use of somewhat technical terms over natural user phrasing.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. ". Use when saving design or planning artifacts, or when revisiting a branch's prior design decisions."

Soften jargon toward natural phrasing — pair "revision chains" with terms like "design history" or "prior designs" that users would actually say.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names multiple concrete capabilities — "branch tracking, revision chains, and cross-session discovery" — alongside the core action of persisting design documents, matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

It clearly states what the skill does ("Persist design documents with...") but provides no "Use when..." trigger or equivalent, so completeness is capped at 2 per the missing-trigger guideline.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

"design documents" is a relevant keyword, but "revision chains" and "cross-session discovery" skew technical and lack common natural variations a user would say, fitting the some-relevant-keywords-but-missing-variations anchor.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The design-document-lineage niche with branch/revision tracking is specific and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the clear-niche anchor.

3 / 3

Total

10

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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nyldn/claude-octopus
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