render-workflows

Sets up, develops, tests, and deploys Render Workflows. Covers first-time scaffolding (via CLI or manual), SDK installation (Python or TypeScript), task patterns (retries, subtasks, fan-out), local development, Dashboard deployment, and troubleshooting. Use when a user wants to set up Render Workflows for the first time, scaffold a workflow service, add or modify workflow tasks, test workflows locally, or deploy workflows to Render.

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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 well-structured, lean, and actionable SKILL.md body: executable commands and code, sequenced workflows with validation checkpoints and feedback loops, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure to verified reference files.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean — compact tables, direct commands, and code blocks — and its prose covers product-specific details (Render Workflows beta execution model, instance specs, SDK-outdated warning) that Claude would not already know, so every section earns its tokens.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides executable commands (render workflows init, render workflows dev, render workflows tasks list, install curl) and copy-paste-ready Python sync/async and TypeScript client code, plus concrete build/start command and constraint tables — matching the fully-executable anchor.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Scaffold→Define→Develop→Deploy is clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints ('verify it registers by starting the local dev server and listing tasks', 'Verify deployment: check the Dashboard') and feedback loops ('If the task doesn't appear…', 'If the deploy fails…'), matching the clear-sequence-with-validation anchor.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body is an overview with clearly signaled, verified-real one-level-deep references (references/*.md), a consolidated References section, and Related Skills; the bundle has no nested 'see X→see Y' chains, matching the clear-overview-with-one-level-references anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 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, specific, third-person description with an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause and natural user phrasing. Its only weakness is moderate overlap with the sibling render-deploy skill on the 'deploy' trigger.

Suggestions

Sharpen the deploy trigger to disambiguate from render-deploy, e.g. 'deploy a Workflow service to Render' rather than 'deploy workflows to Render'.

Consider noting that general (non-workflow) deploys belong to the render-deploy skill, to reduce conflict risk.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions ('Sets up, develops, tests, and deploys', 'scaffolding (via CLI or manual)', 'task patterns (retries, subtasks, fan-out)') in third-person voice, matching the anchor for listing several specific concrete actions rather than vague language.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (the capabilities catalogue) and 'when' (an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause), which is the anchor for clearly answering both.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	The 'Use when' clause gives natural user phrases ('set up Render Workflows', 'scaffold a workflow service', 'add or modify workflow tasks', 'test workflows locally', 'deploy workflows to Render'), with good coverage of terms a user would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The 'Render Workflows' niche is fairly distinct, but the 'deploy workflows to Render' trigger overlaps with the related render-deploy skill (a sibling confirmed in the body's Related Skills), so it could still trigger the wrong skill — anchor 2, not the 'unlikely to conflict' anchor 3.	2 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: openai/plugins
Path: plugins/render/skills/render-workflows/SKILL.md
Commit: 11c74d6

Reviewed: 17 days ago

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