netlify-deploy

Deploy projects to Netlify with the Netlify CLI. Use when the user wants to link a repo, validate deploy settings, run a deploy, or choose between preview and production flows.

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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 thorough, actionable deployment skill with a clear numbered workflow and well-structured one-level-deep references. Its main weaknesses are redundancy (the Example Full Workflow and Authentication sections duplicate earlier content) and a missing explicit deploy-success validation checkpoint for production deploys.

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Remove or collapse the 'Example Full Workflow' section, which restates commands already covered in the numbered Workflow steps, to cut redundancy.

Add an explicit validation checkpoint after deploy (e.g., confirm the deploy URL/status before reporting success), especially for 'npx netlify deploy --prod' since production deploys are hard to reverse.

Merge the standalone 'Authentication Pattern' section with Step 1 to eliminate the duplicated netlify status/login guidance.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient and Netlify-specific, but the 'Example Full Workflow' section restates commands already shown in the numbered Workflow steps, and the 'Authentication Pattern' section duplicates Step 1's login/status guidance — content that could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready commands throughout (npx netlify status/login/link/init/deploy/deploy --prod, npm install) with expected output patterns, matching the fully-executable anchor.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Steps 1-6 are clearly sequenced with an auth re-verification feedback loop and an error-handling section, but there is no explicit checkpoint verifying a deploy succeeded before reporting success — a gap for the production (--prod) operation that caps clarity at 2.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is an overview with a clearly signaled 'Bundled References (Load As Needed)' section pointing to three real, one-level-deep reference files (verified: cli-commands.md, deployment-patterns.md, netlify.toml.md contain no nested references), with detail appropriately split out.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 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, well-constructed description: it names concrete actions, includes an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause covering several natural scenarios, and occupies a clearly distinct Netlify-specific niche. No vague fluff or over-claims.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'link a repo, validate deploy settings, run a deploy, or choose between preview and production flows' — matching the anchor for specific concrete actions rather than vague language.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both 'what' ('Deploy projects to Netlify with the Netlify CLI') and 'when' via an explicit 'Use when the user wants to...' clause with multiple triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Terms a user would naturally say ('deploy', 'Netlify', 'link a repo', 'preview', 'production') are present and well-covered, not jargon or overly generic.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Netlify-specific niche with distinct triggers (Netlify CLI, preview/production flows); unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: openai/plugins
Path: plugins/netlify/skills/netlify-deploy/SKILL.md
Commit: 11c74d6

Reviewed: 17 days ago

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