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netlify-forms

Guide for using Netlify Forms for HTML form handling. Use when adding contact forms, feedback forms, file upload forms, or any form that should be collected by Netlify. Covers the data-netlify attribute, spam filtering, AJAX submissions, file uploads, notifications, and the submissions API.

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Quality

Content

72%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is highly actionable with executable examples and a concrete API reference, and is well organized into clear sections. It loses points for repeating the SSR fetch-target guidance multiple times and for lacking an explicit verification step in the basic submission flow.

Suggestions

State the SSR '/__forms.html' fetch-target guidance once in a single troubleshooting callout and reference it from the React example instead of repeating the explanation three times.

Add an explicit verification checkpoint for the basic flow, e.g. after a first deployment confirm the submission appears in the Netlify UI > Forms section before treating the form as working.

Either link the assets/netlify.png and netlify-small.svg images where relevant or remove them, since they are currently unreferenced.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean and assumes Claude's competence, but the SSR '/__forms.html' guidance is repeated three times (inline blockquote, the React example comment, and the troubleshooting blockquote), which is unnecessary padding.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable HTML, JS, and TSX code blocks, a concrete submissions-API table with real endpoints and the Bearer auth header, and specific limits (8 MB, 30-second timeout) — copy-paste ready.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Sections are clearly sequenced and the SSR case has an error-recovery loop (200 but nothing in UI → retarget fetch), but the basic submission flow lacks an explicit verify-the-submission-registered checkpoint, leaving validation gaps.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Content is well-organized into clearly labeled single-purpose sections with no nested or multi-level references; the unused image assets do not introduce nesting or harm navigation.

3 / 3

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Description

100%

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 specific, uses natural trigger terms, explicitly states both what it does and when to use it, and occupies a clear niche unlikely to conflict with other skills. It is written in clean third person.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete capabilities — 'spam filtering, AJAX submissions, file uploads, notifications, and the submissions API' plus the 'data-netlify attribute' — matching the 'multiple specific concrete actions' anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Guide for using Netlify Forms for HTML form handling... Covers...') and when ('Use when adding contact forms...'), satisfying the both-what-and-when anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

'Use when adding contact forms, feedback forms, file upload forms, or any form that should be collected by Netlify' provides good coverage of natural phrasings a user would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped to Netlify Forms with distinct triggers, making it unlikely to fire for non-Netlify form work.

3 / 3

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12

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Validation

100%

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