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task-planning

Turn a Paperclip issue or request into a structured implementation plan with child task graph, blockers, owners, and acceptance criteria, then save it as the issue `plan` document.

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Quality

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tessl review fix ./packages/skills-catalog/catalog/bundled/paperclip-operations/task-planning/SKILL.md
SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

87%

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

The content is concise, highly actionable, and well-structured for a self-contained instruction skill, with only workflow clarity held back by an implicit validation loop around the API filing steps.

Suggestions

Add an explicit validate-then-retry checkpoint after the API writes in 'Filing the plan' (e.g. re-fetch the plan document and confirm the revision/confirmation were created before setting `in_review`).

Inline a short verification step for the issue graph rather than deferring it entirely to the companion skill, so the planning workflow closes its own loop.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes competence — terse rules of thumb ('One child issue, one specialty') and concrete API calls with no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows, so every token earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready, executable guidance: exact endpoints with HTTP methods, field names (baseRevisionId, kind: request_confirmation, continuationPolicy, idempotencyKey), and a concrete comment link format — actionable without needing code samples.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The filing sequence is clearly ordered with an explicit 'do not create subtasks until accepted' gate, but it lacks an explicit validate-and-retry feedback loop around the API writes and defers graph verification to a companion skill rather than inlining a checkpoint.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

A single, well-organized SKILL.md with clear sections and no nested references; the one reference to a companion skill is appropriately one-level signaling, and there are no bundle files requiring deeper structure.

3 / 3

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Description

67%

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 specific and distinctively scoped to Paperclip planning, but it omits an explicit 'when to use' trigger clause and relies on only a few natural trigger terms, capping completeness and trigger-term quality at 2.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause to the description naming trigger phrases users actually say (e.g. 'plan', 'scope', 'break down', 'propose the work', 'design the rollout').

Broaden trigger-term coverage to include common variations like 'break down an issue' and 'scope the work' so the description surfaces independently of the body's 'When to use' section.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — building a 'child task graph, blockers, owners, and acceptance criteria' and saving 'the issue `plan` document' — matching the anchor for several specific concrete actions rather than partial naming.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers what the skill does, but provides no explicit 'Use when...' trigger guidance in the description itself, which caps completeness at 2 per the rubric guideline.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms like 'plan', 'implementation plan', and 'request', but omits common variations a user would actually say at trigger time (e.g. 'scope', 'break down', 'design the rollout', 'propose the work'), which only appear in the body.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Paperclip-specific framing plus the 'child task graph' and 'plan document' artifact carve a clear niche unlikely to trigger for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

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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

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Total

15

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16

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paperclipai/paperclip
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