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Generate image-based alternatives, remixes, or new design directions from a Product Design brief. Use when the user asks for design variants, visual exploration, remixes, or image-generated approaches from provided context.

Quality

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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.

A highly actionable, well-sequenced instruction skill with explicit validation checkpoints and error-recovery paths for the image-generation workflow. Its main weakness is redundancy: the dimension list and the option-ordering rules each appear twice nearly verbatim, inflating token cost without adding clarity.

Suggestions

State the dimension guidance once (either in the Workflow or in the Image Gen Prompt) and reference it from the other location instead of repeating the full list verbatim.

Consolidate the option-ordering rules — currently split between 'Rules you must follow' and the 'Output' section with overlapping lists of orderings to ignore — into a single authoritative list.

Consider moving the full Image Gen prompt template into a reference file (e.g. references/image-gen-prompt.md) and keeping only the key adaptation notes inline in SKILL.md.

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Conciseness

The body is dense with non-obvious operational rules, but the dimension guidance is duplicated nearly verbatim (Workflow step 5 and the Image Gen Prompt's 'Target Dimensions') and the option-ordering rules ('Ignore the planned concept order... Promise.all result order, batch order, array indexes') are repeated in both the Rules and Output sections. Mostly efficient but with clear tightening opportunities, matching anchor 3 rather than 2 since most content earns its place.

3 / 5

Actionability

Fully concrete guidance: exact dimensions ('390 x 844', '834 x 1194', '1440 x 1024'), a copy-paste-ready Image Gen prompt template, exact reply text ('Which option should I build: 1, 2, or 3? Or tell me what you'd like to refine or personalize first.'), and named context folders to check. Matches anchor 5 for an instruction-only skill.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 8-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation gates ('Do not generate images until $get-context has satisfied the minimum required design brief'), an access-gap check with stop-and-ask behavior, retry rules for missing generations, a wait-for-all-outputs condition before the selection message, and a feedback loop for revisions — matching anchor 5.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist; cross-skill references ($index, $critical-overrides, $user-context, $image-to-code) are clearly signaled with consistent $-markers and sections are well-organized. The ~50-line inline Image Gen template is needed on every run so inline placement is defensible, but duplication across sections and the monolithic template leave minor organization gaps, matching anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Total

17

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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.

A strong description that clearly states both what the skill does and when to use it, with natural trigger phrasing and third-person voice. It carves a distinct niche for image-based design ideation, with only minor room to add synonyms and distinguish itself further from adjacent design skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

'Generate image-based alternatives, remixes, or new design directions from a Product Design brief' lists several specific concrete actions in a named domain, with minor gaps in coverage (no mention of the three-option model or revision loop). Matches anchor 4 — more than the 1-2 actions of anchor 3, but not the comprehensive coverage of anchor 5.

4 / 5

Completeness

The description explicitly answers both 'what' ('Generate image-based alternatives, remixes, or new design directions from a Product Design brief') and 'when' ('Use when the user asks for design variants, visual exploration, remixes, or image-generated approaches from provided context') with concrete trigger phrases, matching anchor 5 exactly.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'design variants, visual exploration, remixes, or image-generated approaches' provides good natural keyword coverage a user would plausibly say, but common synonyms like 'mockups', 'concepts', or 'design options' are missing. Matches anchor 4 rather than the comprehensive synonym coverage of anchor 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Product Design brief' and 'image-generated approaches' carve a mostly distinct niche with clear triggers, but 'remixes' and 'visual exploration' carry minor overlap risk with generic image-generation or design-variation skills. Matches anchor 4 rather than the minimal-conflict anchor 5.

4 / 5

Total

17

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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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Relative link issues: 4 suspicious

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

openai/plugins

Path

plugins/product-design/skills/ideate/SKILL.md

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