telemetry

Add and verify lightweight macOS runtime telemetry. Use when wiring Logger events or inspecting logs for windows, sidebars, menus, and actions.

Quality

92%

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Passed

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Quality

Content

85%

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

A well-structured, highly actionable telemetry skill with executable code, concrete log-inspection commands, and a clear verify-then-iterate workflow. The main weakness is rule repetition across the three reinforcement sections that could be consolidated.

Suggestions

State the noisy-debug-log guidance once (Core Guidelines or Guardrails) and drop the duplicate phrasing in the Verification Checklist to reduce repetition.

Merge the "do not log secrets" rule with the checklist's "No sensitive payloads" line so the privacy constraint lives in a single place.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body assumes Claude's competence (no concept re-explanation) and is concrete throughout, but the noisy-debug-log and don't-log-secrets guidance is repeated across Core Guidelines, Guardrails, and the Verification Checklist and could be tightened into one statement.	2 / 3
Actionability	It provides a complete, executable Swift Logger snippet and copy-paste `log stream --predicate` commands plus build/run flags, so guidance is concrete and ready to run rather than pseudocode.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The five-step Workflow is clearly sequenced with an explicit "verify the event fired" checkpoint, a feedback loop ("If it does not fire, move the log closer... and rerun"), and a verification checklist.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	No bundle files exist and none are needed; the single SKILL.md is coherently split into Quick Start, guidelines, a code pattern, Workflow, checklist, and Guardrails with easy section navigation.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

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.

A strong, third-person description with concrete actions, an explicit Use-when trigger, natural domain keywords, and a clearly bounded niche. No specificity or voice penalty applies.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Add and verify lightweight macOS runtime telemetry" plus "wiring Logger events or inspecting logs" names several concrete actions (add, verify, wire, inspect) rather than vague language, matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	It explicitly answers what ("Add and verify... telemetry") and when via an explicit "Use when..." trigger clause, so both halves are present rather than implied.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural terms a developer would say are well covered — "telemetry", "Logger events", "logs", and the UI surfaces "windows, sidebars, menus, and actions" — beyond a single jargon phrase.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The macOS runtime-telemetry niche with Logger/log triggers is clearly bounded and even defers crash analysis to a separate "build-run-debug" skill, so it is unlikely to fire for the wrong skill.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: openai/plugins
Path: plugins/build-macos-apps/skills/telemetry/SKILL.md
Commit: 11c74d6

Reviewed: about 14 hours ago

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