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positron-issue-creator

This skill should be used when drafting GitHub issues for the Positron repository. It provides workflows for searching duplicates, selecting appropriate labels, gathering complete context through questioning, and writing terse, fluff-free issues that precisely describe what is needed or wrong. The skill prepares issues for manual submission by the user. Use this skill when the user asks to draft or prepare an issue for Positron.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

70%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 with a well-validated workflow, but it violates its own terseness principles: roughly a third of the body duplicates either its own earlier sections or its own reference files. Moving the example drafts and writing-guideline summaries fully into the references would tighten it considerably.

Suggestions

Remove the 'Workflow Summary' section — it fully duplicates the six-step Core Workflow already presented with detail.

Move the example bug report and feature request drafts and the writing-style summary (core principles, title/body guidelines, anti-patterns) into references/issue_templates.md and references/writing_guidelines.md, keeping only one-line pointers in SKILL.md.

Merge 'Common Mistakes to Avoid' and 'Success Criteria' into the existing 'Important Guidelines' section to eliminate repeated guidance.

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Conciseness

Despite preaching terseness, the body contains several fully redundant sections — the "Workflow Summary" restates the entire Core Workflow, "Scripts Reference" repeats the usage already shown inline, and "Common Mistakes to Avoid" and "Success Criteria" restate earlier guidelines — matching the score-2 anchor of noticeably verbose with several padded sections rather than the mostly-efficient score-3 anchor.

2 / 5

Actionability

The guidance is fully executable: exact script invocations with flags, specific questions to ask users, complete example bug report and feature request drafts, label selections, and a copy-ready bash heredoc for saving issues, matching the score-5 anchor for copy-paste-ready coverage of common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The six-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints — user confirmation that matches are not duplicates, a pre-presentation review checklist, user approval before preparing files — and feedback loops for iteration, matching the score-5 anchor; no destructive or batch operations lack validation.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

References (issue_templates.md, writing_guidelines.md, both real files) and scripts are clearly signaled one level deep, but substantial content that duplicates those reference files — the full writing-guidelines summary, title/body structures, anti-patterns, and complete example drafts — is inlined in SKILL.md, matching the score-3 anchor of content that should be separate living inline.

3 / 5

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Description

92%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 strong: it explicitly states concrete capabilities and an explicit trigger condition in third-person voice. Its only weakness is slightly narrow trigger coverage that omits natural phrasings like "report a bug" or "file an issue".

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Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete actions — "searching duplicates, selecting appropriate labels, gathering complete context through questioning, and writing terse, fluff-free issues" plus "prepares issues for manual submission" — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's capabilities, matching the score-5 anchor rather than the score-4 anchor with only minor gaps.

5 / 5

Completeness

Both what ("provides workflows for searching duplicates, selecting labels, gathering context, writing terse issues") and when ("Use this skill when the user asks to draft or prepare an issue for Positron") are explicitly stated with a concrete trigger phrase, exactly matching the score-5 anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural-term coverage ("draft GitHub issues", "Positron", "draft or prepare an issue") but common variations like "file an issue", "report a bug", or "feature request" are missing, so it falls between the score-3 and score-5 anchors, closer to anchor 4.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The description is tightly scoped to drafting GitHub issues for the Positron repository, a clear niche with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills, matching the score-5 anchor.

5 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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posit-dev/positron
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