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ordering-and-flakes

Control spec ordering and manage flaky specs — Serial, Ordered containers with BeforeAll/AfterAll/ContinueOnFailure, OncePerOrdered, SpecPriority, plus FlakeAttempts/--flake-attempts, MustPassRepeatedly, --repeat, and --until-it-fails. Use when specs must run in a fixed order, you need once-per-group setup, you're combining Serial+Ordered, a spec is flaky, or you want to hunt order-dependence with --until-it-fails -p --randomize-all.

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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 body is a tight, expert-level reference: executable code and commands, explicit decision rules and anti-patterns, and skill cross-references instead of restated concepts. Its only soft spot is the absence of explicit validation checkpoints, which is largely inapplicable to a non-destructive decorator/flag reference.

Suggestions

Add a short 'Choosing between Ordered and one It + By' decision checklist (conditions → recommended container) to make the workflow_clarity sequencing fully explicit.

For the flake-hunting flow, add an explicit ordered loop: run --until-it-fails locally → capture the failing seed/order → reproduce with --repeat=N or a pinned seed, so the expose-then-diagnose path has a concrete checkpoint sequence.

Consider a brief 'Verify' note after the --flake-attempts=3 example reminding the reader that a pass-after-retry is reported as flaky (not clean), so tolerating flakes is never mistaken for a green suite.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Lean and dense: it assumes Claude knows Ginkgo and offloads concepts to sibling skills via '→ ginkgo:overview' / '→ ginkgo:decorators' rather than re-explaining them; every section adds skill-specific nuance (gotchas, anti-patterns) instead of padding.

5 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable guidance throughout — copy-paste Go decorator usage ('Describe("...", Ordered, Serial, func(){...})') and CLI commands ('ginkgo --until-it-fails -p --randomize-all', 'ginkgo --flake-attempts=3') covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Decision guidance is clearly sequenced — 'Prefer one It + By by default — Reach for Ordered when...', and the flake stance flows 'Default to none → Expose them → Tolerate them (judiciously, as last resort)' — but there are no explicit validation/checkpoint steps, which is acceptable here since the skill governs no destructive or batch operation requiring a feedback loop.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A focused single-file reference that needs no bundle splitting, with well-organized sections and clearly signaled one-level-deep cross-references ('→ ginkgo:debugging-failures', '→ ginkgo:ci'); no nested reference chains, so navigation is easy.

5 / 5

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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 is dense, specific, and self-selecting: it enumerates the concrete decorators/flags the skill governs and pairs them with an explicit, multi-condition 'Use when' trigger. It assumes no over-claiming and stays in third-person voice.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete capabilities — 'Serial, Ordered containers with BeforeAll/AfterAll/ContinueOnFailure, OncePerOrdered, SpecPriority, plus FlakeAttempts/--flake-attempts, MustPassRepeatedly, --repeat, and --until-it-fails' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's actions rather than vague abstraction.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (control ordering and manage flaky specs, with a concrete decorator/flag list) and 'when' via an explicit 'Use when...' clause with multiple concrete trigger conditions.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user phrases with synonyms are present — 'specs must run in a fixed order', 'once-per-group setup', 'a spec is flaky', 'hunt order-dependence' — alongside the exact decorator/flag vocabulary users of Ginkgo would name.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (Ginkgo spec ordering and flake management) with highly specific triggers, making overlap with unrelated skills minimal.

5 / 5

Total

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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

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No warnings or errors.

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