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monty-python-esque

Generate an original British surrealist comedy sketch, script, or comic bit in the Monty Python tradition, built on absurd literalism, escalating internally-consistent illogic, bureaucratic pedantry, semantic argument, deadpan seriousness amid impossible premises, sudden non sequiturs, abrupt anticlimactic endings. Use this when a user asks for a new sketch, script, dialogue bit, or scene built on a mundane premise pushed to logical extremes. Do NOT use this to reproduce, quote, paraphrase, reword any actual Monty Python sketch, character, catchphrase (e.g. Dead Parrot, Spanish Inquisition, Ministry of Silly Walks, Argument Clinic); this is a generative skill for fresh original material, not a lookup, quotation, transcription tool. Not for slapstick, observational stand-up, roast comedy, American-style sitcom writing, where the humour depends on delivery, timing, rather than an escalating internally-consistent premise.

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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 strong body: the mindset section captures the non-obvious core principle, the four anti-patterns each demonstrate the failure and the fix with concrete dialogue examples, and progressive disclosure is exemplary with well-signaled one-level-deep references. Remaining room is tightening the redundant WHY/CONSEQUENCE pairs and interleaving checkpoints earlier in the workflow.

Suggestions

Merge each anti-pattern's WHY and CONSEQUENCE sections into a single rationale line — they currently restate the same failure twice and cost tokens without adding guidance.

Move the deadpan per-line self-test (e.g., 'would an unremarkable person say this line in a non-absurd version of the job?') from the reference into a mid-workflow checkpoint around step 5, so validation happens during drafting rather than only at step 9.

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Conciseness

The body is craft-specific throughout ("escalate the logic, don't escalate the randomness") and avoids explaining what Claude already knows. Minor over-explanation remains: each anti-pattern's WHY and CONSEQUENCE sections restate the same failure in two voices (e.g., copyright exposure / request unfulfilled), which could be merged.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete premise examples ("a planning committee, a returns desk, a job interview, a bus queue"), named comic engines, and paired BAD/GOOD dialogue examples for every anti-pattern make this actionable for an instruction-only skill. Some workflow steps remain directive rather than mechanical ("Follow one escalating rule through consistent internal logic"), leaving minor interpretive gaps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 9-step sequence with an explicit error-recovery loop ("If the escalation fails to build past the opening exchange, stop and revisit the premise, or fall back to a different comic engine") and a confirmation checkpoint for real persons. Validation sits only at the end of the workflow rather than interleaved during drafting, so it fits between the 4 and 5 anchors.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A well-organized overview with a references table pointing to two real, one-level-deep files (references/escalation-and-bureaucratic-engines.md, references/deadpan-delivery-and-abrupt-endings.md), each with an explicit when-to-use condition. Content is appropriately split and navigation is easy.

5 / 5

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17

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20

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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.

An exemplary description: concrete what, explicit when with natural trigger phrases, and well-drawn negative boundaries that both prevent copyright misuse and avoid conflict with adjacent comedy-writing skills. The only minor gap is that capability coverage hangs on a single generate verb rather than multiple distinct actions.

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Specificity

"Generate an original British surrealist comedy sketch, script, or comic bit" names concrete deliverables, and the mechanism list ("absurd literalism, escalating internally-consistent illogic, bureaucratic pedantry, semantic argument, deadpan seriousness") is specific. It falls short of the 5 anchor because it rests on a single action verb with stylistic modifiers, not multiple distinct actions; it is well above the 3 anchor's 1-2 concrete actions. Third-person voice is used correctly.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both what ("Generate an original British surrealist comedy sketch, script, or comic bit in the Monty Python tradition...") and when ("Use this when a user asks for a new sketch, script, dialogue bit, or scene built on a mundane premise pushed to logical extremes") with concrete trigger phrases, plus an explicit when-not-to clause.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"sketch, script, dialogue bit, scene", "comic bit", "Monty Python", "a new sketch", and "mundane premise pushed to logical extremes" give comprehensive coverage of the natural synonyms a user would actually say, including exclusion terms like "slapstick" and "sitcom".

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (generative British surrealist sketch comedy) with distinct triggers and explicit negative boundaries ("Do NOT use this to reproduce, quote, paraphrase..."; "Not for slapstick, observational stand-up, roast comedy, American-style sitcom writing"), minimizing overlap with any adjacent writing skill.

5 / 5

Total

19

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20

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Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

pantheon-org/tekhne

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