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skill-design-lineage

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

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

67%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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, highly actionable workflow with clear sequencing and concrete bash throughout; its main weakness is repeated boilerplate that could be factored out and a long inlined template that could be split into a reference.

Suggestions

Factor the repeated SLUG/DESIGNS_DIR and BRANCH/DATETIME setup into a single defined snippet and reference it from each step to remove the ~5 duplications.

Resolve the SUPERSEDES linkage so Step 1's heredoc does not reference a variable that is only set in Step 3, or reorder/scope the steps so the variable is defined before use.

Move the ~50-line document template into a references/ file (e.g. references/TEMPLATE.md) and link to it from the body to improve progressive disclosure and trim the main file.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly concrete code with no conceptual fluff, but the SLUG/DESIGNS_DIR setup block is duplicated ~5 times, the BRANCH/DATETIME resolution repeats, and the immutability rule is stated three times.

3 / 5

Actionability

It provides copy-paste-ready bash for save, search, chain-walking, and cap enforcement, with a minor gap: SUPERSEDES is referenced in the Step 1 heredoc but only assigned in Step 3, and template placeholders must be filled by the model.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Steps 1-4 are clearly numbered and sequenced with a discover-before-save flow, a user confirmation prompt, and a cap warning, but there is no explicit validate->fix->retry feedback loop and errors are suppressed via 2>/dev/null.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The single-file body is well-organized with clear section headers and no nested references, but at ~280 lines the sizable document template is a candidate for a separate reference file rather than being inlined.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

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Description

53%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 about its niche, but it states only a single action and omits explicit 'when to use' guidance from the description field, leaving several dimensions at the midpoint.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause to the description field (e.g., 'Use when the user says save design, design document, design history, or find prior designs') so 'when' is answered inline rather than only in the trigger field.

Broaden natural keyword coverage by including synonyms users actually say, such as 'design docs' and 'design history', alongside 'design documents'.

Surface one or two more concrete actions beyond 'Persist' (e.g., 'discover', 'link revision chains') to lift specificity above the single-verb midpoint.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the domain ('design documents') and one concrete action ('Persist') alongside specific features (branch tracking, revision chains, cross-session discovery), but does not list multiple distinct actions.

3 / 5

Completeness

It gives a clear 'what' but no 'when' / 'Use when...' guidance in the description field itself (trigger guidance lives in a separate trigger field), so completeness is capped at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'design documents' is a natural user term, but 'branch tracking', 'revision chains', and 'cross-session discovery' are technical jargon and common synonyms like 'design docs' or 'design history' are absent.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Design-document lineage with branch tracking and revision chains is a clear niche, though without the trigger field's explicit 'DO NOT activate for generic documentation' guard there is minor overlap risk with general doc skills.

4 / 5

Total

13

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

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

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
nyldn/claude-octopus
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