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This skill should be used when the user asks to "create AGENTS.md", "update AGENTS.md", "maintain agent docs", "set up CLAUDE.md", or needs to keep agent instructions concise. Enforces research-backed best practices for minimal, high-signal agent documentation.

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Content

77%Scale 1-3

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

This is a strong, actionable skill that provides concrete templates and clear workflow for creating AGENTS.md files. Its main strengths are the executable examples, specific anti-patterns, and well-sequenced process. Weaknesses include some redundancy between the required sections and the example structure, minor verbosity in places, and the lack of bundle files to offload reference content.

Suggestions

Remove the 'When to Use' section since it duplicates the frontmatter description and the skill trigger conditions

Consider extracting the full example structure into a separate EXAMPLE.md reference file to reduce the main skill's length and improve progressive disclosure

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Conciseness

The skill is mostly efficient and well-structured with headers and bullets, but includes some unnecessary content like the 'When to Use' section (which duplicates frontmatter intent), the 'Limitations' boilerplate at the end, and some slightly verbose anti-pattern explanations. The example structure section partially duplicates the required sections content.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully concrete, copy-paste ready guidance: exact commands for symlink creation, specific lock file names to check, complete markdown templates for each required section, a full example structure, and specific anti-patterns to avoid. The file-scoped commands table and commit attribution examples are immediately executable.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The workflow is clearly sequenced: File Setup → Before Writing (research steps 1-5) → Writing Rules → Required Sections → Optional Sections → Anti-Patterns. For a documentation-generation skill, this is a well-ordered process with implicit validation (the anti-patterns serve as a checklist, and the line count target of <60 lines provides a concrete quality gate).

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is well-organized with clear headers and logical sections, but it's a single monolithic file at ~100 lines that could benefit from splitting. The example structure and anti-patterns sections could be separate reference files. No bundle files are provided, so there's no progressive disclosure to external references despite the content length warranting it.

2 / 3

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Description

89%Scale 1-3

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 has strong trigger terms and completeness, clearly specifying when to use the skill with explicit quoted phrases. Its main weakness is that the 'what it does' portion is somewhat vague—'enforces research-backed best practices' doesn't tell Claude exactly what concrete actions the skill performs (e.g., generating sections, pruning content, structuring headers). Overall it's a solid description with room for more specificity on capabilities.

Suggestions

Add specific concrete actions the skill performs, e.g., 'Generates structured sections, prunes verbose instructions, organizes agent configuration into concise directives' instead of the vague 'enforces research-backed best practices'.

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Specificity

The description mentions some actions like 'create AGENTS.md', 'update AGENTS.md', 'maintain agent docs', and 'keep agent instructions concise', but it doesn't list specific concrete actions the skill performs (e.g., what it actually does to the files). 'Enforces research-backed best practices' is somewhat vague.

2 / 3

Completeness

The description explicitly answers both 'what' (enforces best practices for minimal, high-signal agent documentation) and 'when' (with a clear 'Use when' equivalent listing specific trigger phrases like 'create AGENTS.md', 'update AGENTS.md', etc.).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes strong natural trigger terms users would actually say: 'create AGENTS.md', 'update AGENTS.md', 'maintain agent docs', 'set up CLAUDE.md', and 'agent instructions'. These cover multiple natural phrasings and file name variations.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The skill is clearly scoped to AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files with a focus on agent documentation best practices. This is a distinct niche unlikely to conflict with general documentation or coding skills.

3 / 3

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Validation

90%

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

Validation — 10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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Passed

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