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growth-loops

Use when asked to "growth loops", "build a growth engine", "design a viral loop", "create a content loop", "move beyond paid acquisition", or "why isn't growth compounding". Helps design self-reinforcing growth systems where output becomes input. The Growth Loops framework (from Brian Balfour / Reforge and Elena Verna) shifts thinking from linear funnels to compounding loops.

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Quality

Content

40%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 body works as a conceptual overview — clear what-it-is framing and useful inclusion/exclusion criteria — but it stops there. It provides no executable process for actually designing or diagnosing a growth loop, which is the skill's stated purpose, and pads the overview with boilerplate sections.

Suggestions

Add a step-by-step workflow for the core task, e.g.: (1) gather product/context and current acquisition channels, (2) map how each user action could produce new users (content, virality, sales, product-output loops), (3) identify the constrained loop input, (4) define the input and output metrics to instrument — this would lift both actionability and workflow clarity.

Replace the "Input Requirements" and "Domain Context" boilerplate with a concrete worked example of one loop (e.g., a content loop: user creates content → content attracts new users → new users create content), including the inputs/outputs to measure for each stage.

Move the "Resources" and "Further Reading" material into a references file (e.g., references/loop-examples.md) containing the major loop archetypes (viral, content, sales, product-led) with when each applies, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview pointing to it.

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Conciseness

Generic filler like "This skill implements a proven product management framework... designed for practical application in day-to-day PM work" and the boilerplate "Input Requirements" section pad the body, and the funnels-are-linear explanation covers concepts Claude already knows. It stays at anchor 3 rather than 2 because the total volume is modest and the When to Use / When Not to Use lists carry real information.

3 / 5

Actionability

The body describes the framework ("the best growth systems are loops, not funnels") and when to apply it but gives no concrete procedure for executing the work — no steps for mapping a product's current acquisition flow, identifying loop opportunities, or defining the input/output of a loop. This matches anchor 2 (high-level hints, missing specific steps) rather than anchor 1 because the use/non-use decision guidance is at least actionable for triage.

2 / 5

Workflow Clarity

No sequence exists for the core task; designing a growth loop is inherently multi-step (gather product context, model current funnel/loop, design the loop, define compounding metrics) yet none of these steps are laid out. Anchor 2 fits (rough guidance present via when-to-use bullets, many gaps, no checkpoints); the simple-skill exception does not apply because this is not a single-action skill.

2 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is short (~50 lines) with well-organized headers and a single clearly-signaled one-level "Further Reading" link, and no bundle files exist to verify or mis-navigate. It sits at anchor 4 rather than 5 because the fragmented "Resources" and "Further Reading" sections are thin, and the skill would plainly benefit from reference material (loop taxonomy, worked loop examples, metric definitions) split into a references file.

4 / 5

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Description

82%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.

A strong description with an explicit and well-phrased trigger list plus a clear statement of what the skill does. The only notable gap is that it names a single capability (designing growth systems) rather than enumerating the several distinct actions it supports, and a few natural trigger synonyms are absent.

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Specificity

"Helps design self-reinforcing growth systems where output becomes input" names the domain and one concrete action, matching the anchor for 1-2 concrete actions without comprehensive coverage; the trailing framework attribution sentence is descriptive rather than an additional action, so it does not reach anchor 4.

3 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers "when" with an enumerated "Use when asked to..." clause of concrete trigger phrases and clearly answers "what" with "Helps design self-reinforcing growth systems where output becomes input", exactly matching the anchor for both what and when with concrete triggers.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Triggers like "growth loops", "build a growth engine", "design a viral loop", "create a content loop", "move beyond paid acquisition", and "why isn't growth compounding" are natural user phrasings with good loop-variant synonym coverage, but common variations such as "referral loop", "viral growth", "word of mouth", or "PLG" are missing, fitting anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is distinct (compounding growth loops per the Balfour/Reforge and Elena Verna framing) and the triggers ("viral loop", "content loop", "why isn't growth compounding") are unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the clear-niche/minimal-conflict anchor.

5 / 5

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20

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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