multi-step-form-design

Designing forms with multiple steps, progress indicators, conditional logic, and save-and-resume mechanics. The discipline of breaking complex data collection into stages that respect cognitive load while maintaining completion intent. Honest about kitchen-sink-single-page (overwhelms before the user starts), progress-theater (steps without genuine staging), and genuinely-staged (each step earns its own page) patterns. Triggers on multi-step form, multi-page form, form wizard, signup wizard, lead form, application form, intake form, configurator, onboarding form. Also triggers when a long form is converting poorly, when an audience is dropping off mid-form, or when a multi-step form is being scoped for the first time.

Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

85%

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

The body is a well-structured, actionable playbook with clear progressive disclosure to real reference files and a sequenced audit framework. Its main weakness is conciseness: the keystone framing and section content recur across multiple sections, adding tokens without adding information.

Suggestions

Consolidate the kitchen-sink/progress-theater/genuinely-staged framing into a single authoritative section and have the Form anti-patterns and Closing sections reference it rather than restate it.

Tighten the 12-consideration framework so it indexes the preceding sections instead of re-explaining each consideration, cutting redundant prose.

Trim practitioner-voice preamble ('The discipline of...', 'The voice is the senior growth practitioner...') that conveys tone but not actionable guidance.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient and opinionated, but the keystone framing (kitchen-sink/progress-theater/genuinely-staged) is restated across the keystone section, the Form anti-patterns section, and the Closing, and the 12-consideration framework largely rephrases earlier sections — redundancy that could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Delivers directly applicable guidance: field-count thresholds ('more than 8-10 fields'), named step patterns with friction levels, before/after naming examples, a litmus test, symptom-to-remediation mappings, and a 12-point audit checklist — concrete enough for an instruction-only skill per the scoring notes.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Provides a clearly sequenced 12-consideration framework that doubles as a checklist, with a measurement feedback loop ('Set up tracking before the form launches' plus quarterly review) supporting error recovery and ongoing remediation.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Each topical section ends with a well-signaled one-level-deep 'Detail in references/xxx.md' link, all 9 referenced files exist, cross-links between references point only to siblings (no 2+ level nesting), and a closing Reference files index aids navigation.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

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 trigger-rich, clearly stating what the skill does and when to invoke it with natural user-facing terms. It uses third-person gerund voice throughout with no first/second-person phrasing.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names multiple concrete capabilities — 'forms with multiple steps, progress indicators, conditional logic, and save-and-resume mechanics' and 'breaking complex data collection into stages' — matching the anchor that lists several specific actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Designing forms with multiple steps, progress indicators, conditional logic, and save-and-resume mechanics') and when ('Triggers on... Also triggers when...'), satisfying the explicit-trigger requirement.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Provides broad natural-language triggers users would say — 'multi-step form, multi-page form, form wizard, signup wizard, lead form, application form, intake form, configurator, onboarding form' — plus diagnostic triggers like 'long form is converting poorly' and 'dropping off mid-form'.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (multi-step form structure) with distinct triggers like 'form wizard' and 'multi-page form'; the diagnostic triggers (mid-form drop-off, scoping for the first time) further distinguish it from adjacent skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: rampstackco/claude-skills
Commit: f1bc195

Reviewed: 9 days ago

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