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Smart context compaction with state preservation. Saves critical files, task progress, and working state before compaction, restores after. Use before manual compact or when auto-compact triggers.

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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 a well-structured, actionable guide that mostly respects token budget and provides a clear compact/restore workflow with checkpoints. Slight verbosity, the absence of runnable commands, and minor validation gaps keep it just short of top marks across dimensions.

Suggestions

Tighten 'Strategy: Microcompact First' to a checklist to remove minor explanatory padding and lift conciseness.

Add an explicit verification step after post-compact recovery (e.g., confirm the top-priority file matches pre-compact state) to strengthen the validate-fix-retry loop.

Consider moving the Prevention Strategies table and Key Constants into a short reference file so the SKILL.md body stays a lean overview, improving progressive disclosure.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean with sectioned, actionable content and assumes Claude's competence, but sections like 'Strategy: Microcompact First' carry minor explanatory padding that could be trimmed, placing it just below the top anchor.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, executable guidance — a numbered pre-compact checklist, a copy-paste output template, and a token-savings table — but as an instruction-only skill it lacks runnable commands/code, leaving minor gaps versus fully copy-paste-ready material.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear sequence (Pre-Compact Checklist -> compact -> Post-Compact Recovery) with the checklist acting as a save checkpoint and post-compact re-reads as verification; minor validation gaps keep it just below the explicit validate-fix-retry anchor.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clearly labeled sections with no nested references and self-contained content; at ~70 lines it exceeds the simple-skill 50-line threshold, so it sits just below the top anchor despite good structure.

4 / 5

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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 strong: third-person voice, explicit what-and-when structure, and concrete actions tied to natural trigger phrases. The only weakness is a mildly abstract opener ('Smart context compaction') that could be trimmed for full specificity.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete actions ('Saves critical files, task progress, and working state before compaction, restores after') but the opening 'Smart context compaction with state preservation' is slightly abstract, leaving minor coverage gaps versus a fully comprehensive enumeration.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Saves critical files, task progress, and working state before compaction, restores after') and when ('Use before manual compact or when auto-compact triggers') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural trigger phrases users would say ('Use before manual compact or when auto-compact triggers') with good keyword coverage, though a few natural synonyms like 'context window' or 'running out of context' are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (state preservation across compaction cycles) with distinct triggers ('manual compact', 'auto-compact'), giving minimal conflict risk with other skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

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

Validation16 / 16 Passed

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