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paperclip-distill

Use when an operation issue is a Paperclip cursor-window, distill, or backfill. Turn source-bundled Paperclip activity into wiki-insightful project standups, durable project pages, decisions, and history without asset dereferencing.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

88%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.

The skill body is highly actionable and workflow-clear, with concrete paths, frontmatter specs, and a verification checklist for a batch write operation. The only weaker dimension is progressive disclosure: everything lives in one dense file with no external reference split.

Suggestions

Move the six detailed anti-patterns (or the per-page section format specs for standup.md/index.md) into a referenced file to slim the main SKILL.md and give a one-level-deep disclosure path.

Tighten the 'Anti-patterns to avoid' list to the two or three highest-value examples and reference the rest, reducing inline density.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient and domain-specific (no padding about concepts Claude already knows), but the six enumerated anti-patterns and several section-by-section format specs could be tightened slightly.

4 / 5

Actionability

As an instruction-only skill it gives copy-paste-ready structure: exact file paths, frontmatter fields, ordered section lists, and a concrete log-entry template — concrete and specific enough to execute without inference.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A 10-step sequenced workflow with an explicit Verification checklist, feedback loops (read existing page before patching, surface bundle warnings, human_review_required), and validation for a batch multi-file write operation.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized with clear section headers and no nested references, but it is a single monolithic file (~120 lines) with no one-level-deep file split for the detailed anti-patterns or per-page format specs; structure is good but not file-based disclosure.

4 / 5

Total

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20

Passed

Description

80%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.

The description is complete and highly distinctive, with explicit what/when guidance and a clear niche. Its main weakness is trigger-term quality: the activation phrases are internal jargon (cursor-window, distill, backfill) rather than language a user would naturally say, with no synonyms.

Suggestions

Add natural-language synonyms alongside the jargon triggers, e.g. 'Use when summarizing Paperclip project activity into wiki pages, or when backfilling/cursor-window distilling a project's history'.

Consider naming a user-facing verb (e.g. 'summarize', 'write a project standup') so the trigger reads as something a user would actually request.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists several concrete outputs — 'project standups, durable project pages, decisions, and history' — giving multiple specific actions, though the coverage is specialized to one domain rather than comprehensive standalone capabilities.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Turn source-bundled Paperclip activity into ... standups, durable project pages, decisions, and history') and when ('Use when an operation issue is a Paperclip cursor-window, distill, or backfill') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Trigger terms 'cursor-window, distill, or backfill' are the real operation types, but they are domain jargon rather than natural user phrases and lack synonyms or common variations.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is clearly delimited by Paperclip-specific operation types and the 'wiki-insightful ... without asset dereferencing' framing, giving distinct triggers with minimal conflict risk against other skills.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

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: 1 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
paperclipai/paperclip
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