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cloud-architect

Expert cloud architect specializing in AWS/Azure/GCP multi-cloud infrastructure design, advanced IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu/CDK), FinOps cost optimization, and modern architectural patterns.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

17%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 reads as a padded capability brochure rather than actionable guidance: it catalogs well-known cloud services and traits without executable examples, validation steps, or working external references. It needs concrete IaC snippets, a validated workflow, and real split-out reference files.

Suggestions

Replace the abstract Instructions and Response Approach with executable examples such as a Terraform module skeleton, a cost-estimation command, and a validation/plan-apply loop.

Add explicit validation checkpoints (e.g., terraform validate, plan review, policy checks) to the workflow, especially for batch or destructive infrastructure changes.

Move the large service/framework catalogs into real reference files and link to them one level deep; create the referenced resources/implementation-playbook.md or remove the dead link.

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Conciseness

The ~130-line body is mostly padded catalogs of services, frameworks, and buzzwords (EC2, Lambda, EKS, Istio, Kafka) that Claude already knows, with no tight novel procedural knowledge.

2 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is entirely abstract ('Clarify goals', 'Apply best practices', 'Recommend appropriate cloud services') with no concrete code, commands, templates, or executable examples anywhere in the body.

1 / 5

Workflow Clarity

An ordered 'Response Approach' sequence exists, but it is a generic presentation order with no validation checkpoints or feedback loops, and infrastructure/IaC work warrants validation that is absent.

2 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The single external reference (resources/implementation-playbook.md) does not exist, and the bulk service catalogs that belong in reference files are inlined into SKILL.md.

2 / 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 clearly communicates a cloud-architect niche with specific tooling and provider keywords, but it omits any explicit 'Use when...' trigger guidance, which limits its completeness and reduces its reliability as an auto-discovery trigger.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when ...' trigger clause naming natural user phrases such as designing cloud infrastructure, writing Terraform, multi-cloud strategy, or FinOps cost optimization.

Include common synonyms and file extensions users say (e.g., IaC, cloud migration, landing zone, .tf) to broaden trigger-term coverage.

Lead with concrete verbs (Design, Optimize, Migrate, Govern) so capabilities read as actions rather than specializations.

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Specificity

Names the domain plus several concrete specializations and specific tooling (Terraform/OpenTofu/CDK, FinOps), which goes beyond a single action toward comprehensive coverage, but actions are framed as specializations rather than enumerated verbs.

4 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear and detailed, but there is no 'Use when...' or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the rubric guideline.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage users would actually say (cloud architect, AWS/Azure/GCP, Terraform, FinOps), though it lacks synonyms and common variations like cloud migration, IaC, or landing zone.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche with named providers and tools gives minimal conflict risk with unrelated skills, though 'modern architectural patterns' is broad enough to slightly overlap general software-architecture skills.

4 / 5

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15

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20

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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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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15

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16

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