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usability-testing

Plan and run usability tests on existing or prototype designs including test design, task scripts, moderation, observation, and findings synthesis. Use this skill whenever the user wants to test usability, run a moderated test, run an unmoderated test, validate a design, find usability issues, or improve task completion. Triggers on usability test, usability testing, moderated test, unmoderated test, task script, think aloud, prototype testing, user testing, design validation, task completion. Also triggers when the user has built something and wants to know if real users can use it before shipping.

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88%

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Discovery

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.

This is a strong skill description that clearly articulates specific capabilities (test design, task scripts, moderation, observation, findings synthesis), provides explicit 'Use when' guidance, and includes comprehensive trigger terms covering both technical terminology and natural user language. The description uses proper third-person voice and is well-structured for skill selection among many options.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'test design, task scripts, moderation, observation, and findings synthesis.' These are distinct, well-defined activities within the usability testing domain.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (plan and run usability tests including test design, task scripts, moderation, observation, findings synthesis) and 'when' (explicit 'Use this skill whenever...' clause plus a detailed 'Triggers on' list and a scenario-based trigger).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural terms users would say: 'usability test', 'moderated test', 'unmoderated test', 'task script', 'think aloud', 'prototype testing', 'user testing', 'design validation', 'task completion'. Also includes a natural-language scenario trigger ('built something and wants to know if real users can use it before shipping').

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clearly occupies a distinct niche around usability testing specifically. The trigger terms like 'think aloud', 'task script', 'moderated test', and 'unmoderated test' are highly specific to this domain and unlikely to conflict with other skills like general design review or user research.

3 / 3

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Implementation

77%

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

This is a strong instructional skill with excellent actionability and workflow clarity—the task examples, session structure, severity framework, and report template are all highly concrete and usable. The main weaknesses are moderate verbosity (some redundancy between anti-patterns and failure patterns, and some content Claude would already know about research methodology) and a referenced file that doesn't exist in the bundle. The content would benefit from trimming overlapping sections and actually providing the referenced task-script-patterns file.

Suggestions

Remove or consolidate the 'Anti-patterns' subsection in Phase 4 with the 'Failure patterns' section—they overlap significantly (e.g., 'helping too quickly', 'defending the design', 'leading the participant' appear in both).

Move the detailed report template and moderation session structure into separate reference files (e.g., `references/report-template.md`, `references/session-guide.md`) to reduce the main skill's length and improve progressive disclosure.

Ensure the referenced `references/task-script-patterns.md` file actually exists in the bundle, or remove the reference.

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Conciseness

The skill is well-structured but includes some content Claude would already know (e.g., general moderation principles like 'don't lead', explaining what moderated vs unmoderated testing is). The failure patterns section overlaps significantly with anti-patterns already listed in Phase 4. Some tightening is possible, but it's not egregiously verbose.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides highly concrete, actionable guidance: specific task examples with exact wording, a detailed moderated session structure with time allocations, a severity classification system, a complete report template in markdown, and specific sample size recommendations. While there's no executable code (appropriate for this instruction-only skill), the guidance is specific and directly usable.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 10-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints: a pilot step (step 5) before the main batch, synthesis during testing (step 7), and a re-test step (step 10) to verify fixes. The 5-phase framework and the moderated session structure both have clear sequencing with time estimates. The feedback loop of test → fix → re-test is explicitly called out.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill references one external file (`references/task-script-patterns.md`) which is appropriate, but the bundle confirms no such file exists. The main content is fairly long (~200+ lines) and some sections (like the full report template and the detailed moderation principles) could be split into reference files. The 'when to use / when not to use' cross-references to other skills are well done.

2 / 3

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Passed

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.

Validation10 / 11 Passed

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10

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11

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