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Show where you are in the workflow and what to do next — use for progress checks and orientation

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

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 skill is highly actionable with concrete commands and templates and a clear phase sequence. Its main weaknesses are verbosity (redundant example/summary sections) and a monolithic structure that inlines content better kept in reference files.

Suggestions

Trim the three full Example Outputs and the Quick Reference/Best Practices/Red Flags/Bottom Line sections, which restate content already covered in the Process phases.

Move the full example outputs and the status-routing tables into a reference file (e.g. references/ROUTING.md) and link to them one level deep to improve progressive disclosure.

Add an explicit validate/retry checkpoint after the state read (e.g., handle missing or malformed STATE.md output) to strengthen the workflow feedback loop.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The ~488-line body is padded with three full example outputs, a Quick Reference table that echoes When to Use, and overlapping Best Practices/Red Flags/Bottom Line sections, though it avoids teaching concepts Claude already knows.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides executable bash commands (octo-state.sh read_state, git log --oneline), copy-paste-ready dashboard templates, and explicit status-to-suggestion routing tables.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Phases are clearly sequenced with an init-check stop point, but there is no validate-fix-retry feedback loop; the operation is read-only so the destructive cap does not apply, yet checkpoints beyond the initial halt are implicit.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

A single monolithic file with no references bundle; the three full example outputs and routing tables are inline content that could be split into separate files, though the body is well-organized by clear sections.

2 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Description

75%Weight 40%Scale 1-3

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 clear and complete with explicit what/when guidance and a distinct niche. It loses points on specificity (only two general actions) and trigger-term quality (missing the concrete phrases users would actually say).

Suggestions

Add the concrete user phrases ('status', 'where am I', 'what's next', 'show progress') to the description rather than relying on the separate trigger field.

Enumerate one or two more specific capabilities (e.g., 'display roadmap completion markers and surface blockers') to lift specificity.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('where you are in the workflow') and two concrete actions ('Show where you are', 'what to do next'), but the action list is brief and somewhat general rather than enumerating multiple specific capabilities.

2 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Show where you are... and what to do next') and when ('use for progress checks and orientation') via an explicit 'Use for...' clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

'progress checks and orientation' captures natural intent, but the description omits the exact phrases users actually say ('status', 'where am I', 'what's next') that appear only in the separate trigger field.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The workflow/progress-orientation niche is distinct and unlikely to trigger for unrelated skills, so conflict risk is low.

3 / 3

Total

10

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12

Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

skill_md_line_count

SKILL.md is long (503 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
nyldn/claude-octopus
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