chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

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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.

The content is highly actionable and workflow-clear with concrete project-specific guidance and validation checkpoints. Its main weaknesses are repeated restatements of PR-table learnings across sections and a lack of progressive disclosure for a long, monolithic document.

Suggestions

Extract the PR precedence/lineage table into a references file (e.g. references/pr-lineage.md) and link to it one level deep, leaving only the precedence rule and the latest superseding PR inline.

De-duplicate guidance that appears in both the PR table and later sections (gaze coalescing #329121, double-buffering #327588, #330399) — state each rule once and cross-reference.

Consider splitting the runtime-wiring 13-step checklist and the validation checklist into a reference file so the SKILL.md body stays a lean overview.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is dense and project-specific with no basic-concept padding, but PR-table durable learnings are restated in later sections (#329121 gaze coalescing, #330399 three times, #327588 double-buffer), creating avoidable duplication.	3 / 5
Actionability	Highly concrete instruction-only guidance — exact file paths, named functions (doesChatPetStateTrackCursor, getChatPetSpriteName, getSpriteSources), naming conventions, dimensions, CSS properties, and a 13-step runtime-wiring checklist; absence of code is justified for an art skill.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Multi-step processes are explicitly sequenced (13-step runtime wiring) with a tri-section validation checklist containing explicit verify/run-tests checkpoints; not a destructive or batch operation so no cap applies.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	No bundle files exist and the ~340-line body is a monolith with good headers but no reference-file split; the inlined 16-row PR lineage table is reference material that would benefit from a one-level-deep separate file. The under-50-line simple-skill exception does not apply.	3 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

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.

The description is specific, complete, and highly distinct, clearly stating both what the skill does and when to use it with concrete trigger terms. It could be marginally improved with file-extension triggers, but otherwise earns top marks.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete capabilities — 'sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions' — giving comprehensive coverage of the domain's concrete objects.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (creating/changing the enumerated art) and 'when' ('Use when creating or changing…') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Good natural-term coverage with synonyms ('sprite art'/'sprite sheets', 'Stable/Insiders variants') and an explicit 'Use when' trigger, but lacks file extensions and a few common variations, stopping short of fully comprehensive.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Pinned to a single narrow niche — VS Code chat pet sprites under a specific repo path — with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

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100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: posit-dev/positron
Path: .github/skills/chat-pet-sprite-creation/SKILL.md
Commit: b0258bc

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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