skill-creator-enhanced

Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

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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 skill-creation guide with a clear sequenced workflow and explicit validation loops. Its main weakness is length and redundancy, with progressive-disclosure concepts duplicated across the body and a reference file.

Suggestions

Move the three inlined progressive-disclosure pattern examples and/or the full frontmatter field reference into a reference file, keeping only the core selection guidance in SKILL.md to reduce body length and redundancy.

Trim the "About Skills" / "What Skills Provide" introductory section, which explains concepts Claude largely already knows.

De-duplicate the progressive-disclosure three-stage loading model, which currently appears in both the SKILL.md body and references/workflows.md.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient and spec-specific, but it is long (~400 lines) with some padding (the "About Skills" intro) and redundancy — progressive disclosure is explained both in the body and again in references/workflows.md, which could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	It provides concrete, executable commands (init_skill.py, package_skill.py, read_properties.py) with real syntax and concrete worked examples (pdf-editor, frontend-webapp-builder, big-query), but a few steps like "Understand the skill" remain high-level guidance rather than executable instruction.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The 6-step creation process (Understand → Plan → Init → Edit → Package → Iterate) is clearly sequenced with an explicit validation feedback loop in packaging ("If validation fails... Fix any validation errors and run the packaging command again") and a test-then-iterate loop in Step 6.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Structure is good with clearly signaled, real one-level-deep references (references/workflows.md, references/output-patterns.md), but the body inlines substantial reference-style material (three progressive-disclosure patterns, a full frontmatter field reference) that could be split out, and there is some overlap with the reference files.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

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 clearly answers what the skill does and when to use it, with explicit trigger guidance and a distinct niche. It is slightly limited by narrow action coverage and a thin set of trigger synonyms.

Suggestions

Broaden the trigger phrasing to capture synonyms users naturally say, e.g., "Use when users want to build, create, or update a skill".

List a couple of the concrete skill-building actions the guide covers (e.g., authoring frontmatter, organizing references, packaging) to raise specificity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	It names the domain ("creating effective skills") and two concrete actions ("create a new skill", "update an existing skill"), but does not enumerate the specific skill-building actions it guides (e.g., writing frontmatter, structuring references, packaging), so coverage is not comprehensive.	3 / 5
Completeness	Both "what" (guide for creating effective skills) and "when" ("This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill)") are explicitly stated; the trigger is concrete but somewhat narrow rather than a broad set of trigger phrases.	4 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural trigger phrasing like "create a new skill" and "update an existing skill" is present, but common synonyms such as "build a skill" or "make a skill" are missing, keeping it just short of comprehensive.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The skill-creation niche is distinct with a clear, specific trigger ("create a new skill (or update an existing skill)") and minimal realistic overlap with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

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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.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 6 missing	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 12 missing	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: seanGSISG/claude-depot
Path: plugins/skill-creator-enhanced/skills/skill-creator-enhanced/SKILL.md
Commit: 48bf6a4

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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