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stakeholder-communication

Communicate effectively with stakeholders across functions and seniority levels. Use this skill when writing status updates, preparing executive reviews, sharing technical decisions with non-technical audiences, managing up, communicating bad news, or designing the communication cadence for a project. Triggers on stakeholder update, status report, executive summary, exec review, manage up, communicate bad news, project comms, status meeting, weekly update. Also triggers when a project is going off track and the team needs to communicate it.

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Quality

Content

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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 body is highly actionable with a clear, validated workflow and good structure, but it carries redundant content — templates duplicated against the reference file and overlapping avoid/failure-pattern lists — that could be trimmed.

Suggestions

Remove or condense the four inlined templates in the body and defer to references/update-templates.md, keeping only one short representative example inline.

Merge the "What to avoid" list into "Failure patterns" to eliminate the duplicated hedging/buried-asks/activity-vs-outcome entries.

Tighten the Q1–Q5 explanations (e.g., "If they read only one sentence, what should they take away?") which restate what the heading already conveys.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient, but the body inlines four full templates (weekly update, executive review, bad news, decision request) that are duplicated in references/update-templates.md, and the "Failure patterns" and "What to avoid" sections overlap noticeably (hedging, buried lede, buried asks, activity vs outcome).

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready fill-in templates, a concrete 5-question framework, an explicit inverted-pyramid structure, and a tone/register table — fully actionable for an instruction skill.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 7-step Workflow (define audience → draft headline → write pyramid → cut → verify request → check audience → send & follow up) with explicit validation checkpoints (Steps 5–6) and a follow-up feedback loop in Step 7.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized sections with a clearly signaled one-level-deep reference ("Reference files" → references/update-templates.md), but the inlined templates duplicate the reference rather than being cleanly split, a minor organization gap.

4 / 5

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Description

100%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 specific, trigger-rich, and fully answers what and when in third person. It is a strong, low-conflict trigger description.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — "writing status updates, preparing executive reviews, sharing technical decisions with non-technical audiences, managing up, communicating bad news, or designing the communication cadence" — giving comprehensive coverage of the domain.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Communicate effectively with stakeholders...") and when ("Use this skill when...", "Triggers on...") with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"Triggers on stakeholder update, status report, executive summary, exec review, manage up, communicate bad news, project comms, status meeting, weekly update" provides comprehensive natural-term coverage including synonyms and shorthand variants.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (internal cross-functional stakeholder comms) with distinct triggers; the description scopes out adjacent domains ("project is going off track") reducing overlap with incident-response or marketing skills.

5 / 5

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20

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20

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Validation

93%

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

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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16

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