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Triggers when researching competitive or professional positioning: market intelligence, engineer brands, profiles, and content strategy. Research and strategy only — not code.

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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 dense, well-structured operations manual with genuinely concrete thresholds, dispatch rules, and output-format specifications, and it never wastes tokens explaining concepts Claude already knows. Its weaknesses are duplicated framing content (the HTML comment block and overlapping trigger/keyword tables) and a progressive-disclosure chain whose referenced files are absent from the bundle, which together keep it just below the top tier.

Suggestions

Delete or drastically de-duplicate the HTML comment block (CAPABILITIES_SUMMARY / COLLABORATION_PATTERNS / BIDIRECTIONAL_PARTNERS / PROJECT_AFFINITY) — it restates the body's Collaboration and Trigger Guidance sections at a cost of roughly 40 lines.

Merge the 18-bullet Trigger Guidance list with the Output Routing keyword-cue table, which covers nearly the same signals in tabular form.

Ship the referenced reference/ and _common/ files with the skill bundle (or prune the pointers to only files that exist) so the progressive-disclosure chain resolves instead of dead-ending at every "Read" column entry.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The prose is terse and assumes Claude's competence (SWOT, TAM, OSINT, and SCIP are never explained), but the ~43-line HTML comment block (CAPABILITIES_SUMMARY, COLLABORATION_PATTERNS, BIDIRECTIONAL_PARTNERS, PROJECT_AFFINITY) restates the body's Collaboration and Trigger Guidance sections, and the 18-bullet Trigger Guidance list overlaps the Output Routing keyword-cue table. These duplications are more than the "minor instances that could be trimmed" of anchor 4.

3 / 5

Actionability

For an instruction-only skill the guidance is strongly concrete: "Define 5-10 Key Intelligence Questions", "Actively track 3-5 primary competitors; passively monitor 10-15 via automated alerts", "10%+ price cut = High", and an exact citation format example "[1] https://example.com/pricing — accessed 2026-03-27". It falls short of fully executable because key mechanics (per-Recipe behavior, engine prompts, most numeric thresholds) defer to reference files that are not present in the bundle.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Multiple workflows are clearly sequenced as phase tables with required actions and key rules (MAP → ANALYZE → DIFFERENTIATE; DISCOVER → POSITION → CRAFT → AMPLIFY → MEASURE), with ordering constraints ("KIQs before collection; WebSearch first, then source list before analysis") and a SHARPEN calibration feedback loop. Not 5 because checkpoints are expressed as rules rather than explicit validate → fix → retry steps, and several parallel workflow definitions require the reader to disambiguate via the Output Routing table.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Disclosure is well signaled and one level deep: per-shape "Read" columns, a Reference Map with read-triggers, a recipes index, and a full-index pointer, with the body kept as an overview. It cannot score 5 because none of the referenced files (reference/*.md, _common/*.md) ship in the bundle, so the navigation chain cannot actually be followed; it stays above 3 because the signaling and overview-level organization themselves are strong.

4 / 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 has an explicit trigger clause and a clear boundary statement, with a recognizable niche in competitive and professional positioning. Its main weaknesses are the single generic action verb ("researching") and missing natural trigger synonyms like "competitor analysis", "benchmark", and "personal brand", which leave both capability specificity and trigger coverage short of the top anchors.

Suggestions

Replace the generic "researching" with concrete deliverable actions, e.g., "Build feature matrices, SWOT analyses, battle cards, and win/loss analyses; run competitor discovery, market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), and engineer brand positioning."

Add natural trigger synonyms users would actually say: "competitor analysis", "benchmark competitors", "research the market", "personal brand", "LinkedIn/GitHub profile", "SWOT".

Keep the "Research and strategy only — not code" boundary phrase — it materially helps distinctiveness against implementation-oriented skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The phrase "researching competitive or professional positioning: market intelligence, engineer brands, profiles, and content strategy" names several concrete domains, but the only action offered is the generic "researching" with no concrete deliverables (e.g., SWOT, feature matrices, battle cards, win/loss analyses). This sits above anchor 2 (single domain, minimal action) on the strength of the domain enumeration but below anchor 4 (several specific actions).

3 / 5

Completeness

Both halves are explicit: the trigger clause "Triggers when researching competitive or professional positioning" answers when, and "Research and strategy only — not code" plus the domain list answers what. Not 5 because the "what" enumerates domains rather than concrete actions or deliverables, leaving the trigger phrases less anchored to specific outputs.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"competitive", "positioning", "market intelligence", and "profiles" are terms users would naturally say, but common variations and synonyms are missing: "competitor(s)", "competitive analysis", "benchmark", "SWOT", "personal brand", "market research". This matches the anchor for some relevant keywords missing common variations rather than good coverage.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The boundary "Research and strategy only — not code" plus the niche framing (competitive intelligence, engineer positioning) makes it mostly distinct from adjacent skills. Minor overlap risk remains with general marketing, branding, and research skills since "content strategy" and "market intelligence" are broad terms.

4 / 5

Total

14

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository

simota/agent-skills

Path

compete/SKILL.md

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