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avalonia-layout-zafiro

Guidelines for modern Avalonia UI layout using Zafiro.Avalonia, emphasizing shared styles, generic components, and avoiding XAML redundancy.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

27%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 skill functions as a table of contents and checklist for Avalonia UI layout practices, but lacks the concrete, executable guidance needed to be actionable. It references five supporting files that don't exist in the bundle, making the progressive disclosure structure hollow. The content would benefit significantly from at least one concrete XAML example showing the recommended patterns versus anti-patterns.

Suggestions

Add concrete XAML code examples showing at least one recommended pattern (e.g., HeaderedContainer usage, EdgePanel layout, Icon extension syntax) directly in the SKILL.md overview.

Provide the referenced bundle files (themes.md, containers.md, icons.md, behaviors.md, components.md) or inline the essential content if the files don't exist.

Replace the generic 'When to Use' and 'Limitations' boilerplate sections with specific guidance about when Zafiro.Avalonia patterns apply versus standard Avalonia approaches.

Add a concrete before/after example showing a deeply nested anti-pattern refactored into the recommended clean layout using Zafiro.Avalonia components.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient with a clean content map and checklist format, but the 'When to Use' and 'Limitations' sections are generic boilerplate that add no value. The emoji-heavy headers and 'Selective Reading Rule' add minor bloat.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides no concrete code examples, no executable XAML snippets, and no specific commands. It describes what to do at a high level (use semantic containers, use shared styles) but never shows how. The checklist and anti-patterns are abstract guidance without concrete implementations.

1 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The checklist provides a reasonable sequence of considerations for building clean layouts, and the anti-patterns section gives useful do/don't guidance. However, there's no step-by-step workflow for actually creating a layout, and no validation checkpoints for verifying correctness.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content map references five supporting files (themes.md, containers.md, icons.md, behaviors.md, components.md) but no bundle files are provided, meaning all referenced content is missing. The SKILL.md itself contains only high-level guidance with no substantive content, making it an empty shell that delegates everything to non-existent files.

1 / 3

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Description

32%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 identifies a specific technology stack (Avalonia UI with Zafiro.Avalonia) which provides some distinctiveness, but it reads more like a topic heading than a functional skill description. It lacks concrete actions, explicit trigger conditions, and a 'Use when...' clause, making it difficult for Claude to reliably select this skill from a large pool.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g., 'Use when the user is building Avalonia UI applications, working with .axaml files, or asking about Zafiro.Avalonia styling and layout.'

List specific concrete actions the skill covers, e.g., 'Defines reusable styles and control templates, structures views with shared generic components, configures Zafiro icon packs and themes.'

Include natural trigger terms users might say, such as '.axaml', 'Avalonia app', 'desktop UI', 'cross-platform XAML', 'Zafiro icons', or 'Avalonia theming'.

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Specificity

Names the domain (Avalonia UI layout with Zafiro.Avalonia) and mentions some actions/concepts (shared styles, generic components, avoiding XAML redundancy), but these are more like principles than concrete actions. It doesn't list specific tasks like 'create views', 'define templates', or 'configure themes'.

2 / 3

Completeness

Describes 'what' at a high level (guidelines for Avalonia UI layout) but completely lacks a 'Use when...' clause or any explicit trigger guidance for when Claude should select this skill. Per rubric rules, missing 'Use when' caps completeness at 2, and the 'what' is also weak, so this scores a 1.

1 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes relevant keywords like 'Avalonia', 'Zafiro.Avalonia', 'XAML', 'layout', 'styles', and 'generic components' which users might mention. However, it misses common variations like '.axaml', 'UI framework', 'desktop app', 'cross-platform UI', or 'theming'.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The mention of 'Zafiro.Avalonia' specifically is fairly distinctive and narrows the niche, but 'layout', 'shared styles', and 'generic components' are broad enough to potentially overlap with other UI/XAML-related skills.

2 / 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

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11

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