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agents-md

Create, revise, or audit AGENTS.md files from repository evidence, verified commands, and correctly scoped instructions without overwriting maintainer intent.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

88%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 is an exemplary instruction-only skill: a well-sequenced five-step workflow with explicit validation before handoff, concrete commands and a worked evidence-to-result example, honest reporting requirements ('Never say a command was tested when it was only read from config'), and strong safety notes. The only weaknesses are minor redundancy between How It Works, Best Practices, and Common Pitfalls, and the absence of any bundle split for a fairly long single file. Strong result overall.

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Conciseness

The body is disciplined and high-signal — no padding, no explaining concepts Claude already knows — but the 'Best Practices' and 'Common Pitfalls' sections restate rules already given in 'How It Works' (e.g., 'do not invent a file-scoped invocation' vs. 'Guessing commands: infer tools from manifests, not popularity'). Not 5 because of that redundancy; not 3 because the over-explanation is minor, not 'some unnecessary explanation' throughout.

4 / 5

Actionability

Gives concrete discovery commands ('rg --files'), an executable good-example command ('npm test -- path/to/file.test.ts') contrasted with a vague bad example, and a complete evidence-to-result worked example with a copy-paste-ready AGENTS.md artifact. Per the scoring notes, absence of runnable code in an instruction-only skill is not penalized when guidance is this actionable. Not 4 because commands and examples are specific and cover the common create/revise cases fully.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced five-step process where step 5 is an explicit validation checklist (re-read changed files, remove contradictions, confirm every mentioned file exists, cross-check commands against manifests/CI, review the diff as a maintainer) with a feedback loop. Appropriate validation is present for this state-changing skill, so the destructive-operation cap does not apply. Not 4 because validation checkpoints are explicit and thorough, not just 'most' present.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is a single well-organized SKILL.md (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ bundle exists) with clear section headings, and nothing inlined that clearly belongs in a separate file. Not 5 because at ~200 lines it exceeds the simple <50-line case, and the Examples and Related Skills sections plus the detailed step-5 checklist could arguably be split out or trimmed; not 3 because structure and organization are strong with no buried content.

4 / 5

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Description

66%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, in third person, and clearly scoped to AGENTS.md work, with concrete verbs and a differentiating 'without overwriting maintainer intent' qualifier. Its main weakness is the absence of any 'Use when...' trigger clause, which caps completeness, and thin synonym coverage for the surrounding instruction-file vocabulary. Adding an explicit use-when clause and one or two natural trigger phrases would lift it to the top band.

Suggestions

Append an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when the user asks to create, update, shorten, or audit AGENTS.md, or to reconcile it with CLAUDE.md or other agent instruction files.'

Add natural synonyms users would say — 'agent instructions', 'instruction files', 'CLAUDE.md', 'copilot-instructions' — to improve trigger-term coverage and distinctiveness against adjacent skills.

Consider mentioning the monorepo/nested-scope and stale-command-audit use cases from the body's 'When to Use' section, which are key differentiators not currently surfaced.

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Specificity

Names the domain ('AGENTS.md files') and several concrete actions ('Create, revise, or audit' from 'repository evidence, verified commands'), with minor gaps — capabilities described in the body such as reconciling with CLAUDE.md or copilot-instructions.md are not surfaced in the description. Not 5 because coverage of the full capability set is incomplete; not 3 because it goes beyond 1-2 actions with method qualifiers.

4 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear ('Create, revise, or audit AGENTS.md files from repository evidence...') but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines. Not 4 because the 'when' is entirely absent rather than merely implicit-but-present.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms users would say ('AGENTS.md', 'create, revise, or audit', 'repository evidence'), but misses common variations like 'agent instructions', 'instruction files', or the related file names (CLAUDE.md, copilot-instructions.md) that users mention when they need this skill. Not 5 because synonym coverage is incomplete; not 3 because the core trigger terms are well chosen.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'AGENTS.md files' plus 'without overwriting maintainer intent' carves a clear niche, but the skill body itself names closely related skills (@agents-generator, @folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md) that share the AGENTS.md trigger, creating minor overlap risk. Not 5 because of that overlap with closely related skills; not 3 because the description is far more specific than a generic 'works with files' scope.

4 / 5

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15

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20

Passed

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.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills
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