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conductor-status

Display project status, active tracks, and next actions

Quality

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SKILL.md
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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 strong operational spec: the workflow is clearly sequenced with real validation and edge-case handling, and the parsing logic and output formats are concrete enough to execute directly. Its weaknesses are token efficiency — generic filler sections pad the front — and the complete absence of progressive disclosure, with all templates inlined in one long file.

Suggestions

Delete the generic "Instructions" bullets and the "Use this skill when"/"Do not use this skill when" boilerplate; the pre-flight and data-collection sections already define scope concretely.

Move the two large output-format templates (full project status and single-track status) into a references/ file (e.g., references/output-templates.md) and keep a summary plus the quick/JSON formats in SKILL.md, so the templates load only when needed.

Specify how to populate the "Related Commits" section of the single-track output, e.g. `git log --oneline --grep="{trackId}"`, to close the actionability gap.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The operational sections (pre-flight checks, data collection, calculation logic, output templates) are tight and functional, but the boilerplate "Use this skill when"/"Do not use this skill when" sections and the vague "Instructions" bullets ("Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes") are filler that add tokens without information — more than the minor trimmable instances of a 4.

3 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is largely executable: exact file paths, counting regexes (/^- \[x\] Task/), a progress-bar formula, complete output templates, and ready-made error messages. The one notable gap is the "Related Commits" section of the single-track output, which never specifies how to retrieve the commits (no git log command or filter), keeping it just short of fully copy-paste ready.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The sequence is explicit — Pre-flight Checks, Data Collection steps 1–4, then Output — with genuine validation checkpoints: initialization verification, three fully specified error states, missing files reported as "unknown", zero-division handled as "N/A", and a read-only guard against mutating state. This is a read-only display skill, so the destructive/batch validation cap does not apply.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Everything lives in a single 337-line SKILL.md with no references, scripts, or assets at all — roughly 130 lines of output templates plus error-state templates are always inlined in context. Section headers make it navigable, which lifts it above a 2, but there is no progressive disclosure mechanism and template content that could live in a reference file is inline, matching the anchor for content that should be separate.

3 / 5

Total

15

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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 states a clear, concise "what" in third person, but stops there: it omits any "when to use" trigger guidance, never mentions the Conductor domain it serves, and lists only high-level capabilities. It sits squarely at the midpoint — serviceable but leaving both triggering and distinctiveness to chance.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when the user asks for Conductor project status, track progress, or next actions, or mentions /conductor:status."

Include the distinguishing keyword "Conductor" in the description to prevent overlap with generic project-status or project-management skills.

Surface one or two more concrete capabilities (e.g., progress bars, blocker detection, --quick and --json output modes) to strengthen specificity.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Display project status, active tracks, and next actions" names the domain and two to three actions, but they remain high-level — capabilities like progress computation, blocker detection, and output modes (full/single-track/quick/JSON) are never mentioned, so coverage is not comprehensive as required for a 4.

3 / 5

Completeness

The description gives a clear "what" (display status, active tracks, next actions) but contains no "Use when..." clause or any equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which per the judging guidelines caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Terms like "project status", "tracks", and "next actions" are natural, but the defining keyword "Conductor" is absent entirely, and common variations ("progress", "report", "blockers", "show status") are missing, matching the anchor for some relevant keywords lacking synonyms.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Active tracks" is somewhat distinctive of the track-based workflow system, but "project status" and "next actions" are generic enough to overlap with any project-management or status skill, and the distinguishing "Conductor" term never appears.

3 / 5

Total

12

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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

CriteriaDescriptionResult

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

Path

skills/conductor-status/SKILL.md

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