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ansible-generator

Generates, validates, and refactors production-ready Ansible playbooks, roles, task files, and inventory configurations following current best practices. Use when the user asks to create, build, or generate Ansible automation, YAML playbooks, infrastructure as code, configuration management files, DevOps roles, or .yml files for Ansible — including requests like "create a playbook to...", "build a role for...", "generate an inventory for...", or "set up Ansible to automate...". Automatically validates all output using the devops-skills:ansible-validator skill.

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Quality

Content

81%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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-validated skill body with an exemplary generate→validate→fix→re-validate loop and a real, well-organized bundle. Its main weaknesses are moderate verbosity — the Common Patterns section and anti-pattern rationale restate knowledge Claude already has — and minor structural redundancy in the References section. One consistency nit: the playbook skeleton shows gather_facts: true while an anti-pattern warns against enabling it by default.

Suggestions

Move the "Common Patterns" section (multi-OS conditionals, async pattern) into references/module-patterns.md and keep only a pointer, since Claude already knows these standard patterns and the reference file exists for exactly this content.

Trim the anti-pattern "WHY" rationale to one line each and drop the duplicated "## References" / "### References (read at generation start)" heading structure into a single section.

Align the playbook skeleton with the gather_facts anti-pattern — the template example enables gather_facts: true unconditionally, which contradicts the guidance to enable it per-play only when facts are needed.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient (standards table, numbered steps, lean code blocks), but the "Common Patterns" section (multi-OS when-conditionals, async polling) and the anti-pattern "WHY" rationale re-explain standard Ansible knowledge Claude already has and duplicate content that the referenced module-patterns file exists to hold. It is tighter than the verbose 2 anchor but includes noticeably more known-material padding than the 'minor instances' of a 4.

3 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable: copy-paste-ready builtin fallback and multi-OS task examples, an exact [PLACEHOLDERS] replacement list, a correct/incorrect standards table, real template and reference paths, and a literal required output format with validation checklist — covering the common generation cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Every capability follows an explicit sequence with an explicit validation feedback loop — "generate → invoke devops-skills:ansible-validator → fix errors → re-validate → present output" — including skip conditions and a validation-status checklist in the required output format, matching the top anchor's validate/fix/retry structure.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The bundle is well structured (references/ and an organized assets/templates tree, all referenced paths verified to exist) and references are one level deep, signaled both inline in process steps and in a References section. Minor gaps keep it below a 5: the redundant "## References" heading followed by "### References (read at generation start)", and inline Common Patterns content that belongs in the module-patterns reference.

4 / 5

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17

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20

Passed

Description

96%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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: concrete capabilities, comprehensive natural trigger terms including file extensions and example phrasings, and an explicit use-when clause. The only weakness is a few broad umbrella terms (infrastructure as code, DevOps roles) that slightly raise conflict risk with adjacent IaC skills.

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Specificity

"Generates, validates, and refactors production-ready Ansible playbooks, roles, task files, and inventory configurations" lists multiple concrete actions across all major artifact types with comprehensive coverage, matching the top anchor rather than the 'minor gaps' of a 4.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both questions: the "what" (generates/validates/refactors, and "Automatically validates all output using the devops-skills:ansible-validator skill") and a fully explicit "Use when..." clause with concrete quoted trigger phrases, matching the anchor-5 example structure; a 4 would require the "when" to be less specific, which it is not.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural terms and synonyms comprehensively — "create, build, or generate", "YAML playbooks", "infrastructure as code", "configuration management files", ".yml files for Ansible" — plus realistic user phrases like "create a playbook to..." and "set up Ansible to automate...", including the file-extension form the 5 anchor requires.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Ansible-native triggers (playbook, role, inventory) create a clear niche, but broad terms like "infrastructure as code" and "DevOps roles" carry minor overlap risk with closely related IaC/config-management skills, placing it between the 4 and 5 anchors rather than clearly at 5.

4 / 5

Total

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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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 8 deeper-than-1-level

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

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