skill-writing-plans

Create zero-context implementation plans with bite-sized tasks — use for multi-step feature planning

Quality

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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 content is highly actionable with a clear, validated workflow, but it is somewhat verbose and monolithic, inlining material (a full example and integration specifics) that would benefit from being split into referenced files.

Suggestions

Remove the redundant "MANDATORY COMPLIANCE" preamble and the Octopus activation line; the Overview and trigger already convey intent, and the ALL-CAPS framing is padding.

Drop the full email-validation example or move it to a references file, since it duplicates the Task Template's 5-step pattern.

Strip time-sensitive markers ("Claude Code v2.1.10", the hardcoded 2026-01-17 date) or move them to a deprecated/version-notes section.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient but carries padding: the ALL-CAPS "MANDATORY COMPLIANCE" block restates the overview, the full email example duplicates the Task Template's 5-step pattern, and version pins ("Claude Code v2.1.10", a hardcoded date) add time-sensitive clutter that could be trimmed.	3 / 5
Actionability	Guidance is fully executable: exact file paths, complete runnable TypeScript, exact commands with expected output, and commit message strings, with a worked end-to-end example covering the common case.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The 5-step TDD cycle is an explicit sequence with validation checkpoints (verify test fails, verify test passes) and feedback loops, reinforced by a checklist and a Common Mistakes error-recovery table.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Section headers give the file real structure, but with no bundle files present, the full worked example and the Claude Octopus integration details are inlined in the single SKILL.md rather than split into one-level-deep references.	3 / 5
	Total	16 / 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 clearly states what the skill does and when to use it with reasonably natural trigger terms, but it is a single concise clause rather than a comprehensive enumeration of capabilities and trigger phrases.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and one concrete action ("Create zero-context implementation plans with bite-sized tasks") but does not enumerate multiple specific actions, matching the anchor for 1-2 concrete actions without comprehensive coverage.	3 / 5
Completeness	Both what ("Create zero-context implementation plans with bite-sized tasks") and when ("use for multi-step feature planning") are stated, but the when clause is brief and could be more explicit with concrete trigger phrases.	4 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural phrases users would say ("implementation plans", "multi-step feature planning") are present, though synonyms like "break down", "task list", or "roadmap" are missing, fitting good-but-incomplete keyword coverage.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The "zero-context implementation plans" niche is mostly distinct, with only minor overlap risk against closely related planning or TDD skills referenced in the body.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 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
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: nyldn/claude-octopus
Path: .claude/skills/skill-writing-plans/SKILL.md
Commit: 1bee725

Reviewed: ~13 hours ago

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