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Create, update, or review Picoclaw skills. Use when writing a new skill, modifying an existing SKILL.md, turning a repeated workflow into a reusable skill, or organizing scripts, references, and assets for a skill.

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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 content is a thorough, well-structured guide to skill creation with a clear sequenced workflow and explicit verification steps. Its main weakness is moderate verbosity — analogy-driven explanations and repeated illustrative examples inflate the token budget without proportional value.

Suggestions

Trim metaphorical padding (e.g., the 'onboarding guides' analogy and 'narrow bridge with cliffs' passage) in favor of direct imperative guidance.

Consolidate the three repetitive directory-tree pattern examples (PDF, BigQuery, cloud-deploy) into a single representative example, or move the illustrative variants into a references file.

Replace placeholder pattern blocks like '[code example]' with a minimal concrete snippet or remove them, to keep the actionable guidance fully executable.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient but includes several passages that could be tightened — the 'onboarding guides' analogy, the 'narrow bridge with cliffs' metaphor, and multiple analogous directory-tree examples that restate the same progressive-disclosure idea.

3 / 5

Actionability

It provides concrete executable guidance (mkdir/heredoc commands for skill creation, explicit naming constraints, a 6-item verification checklist) with only minor gaps, though some pattern examples use placeholder brackets like [code example].

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The Skill Creation Process is a clearly ordered 6-step sequence with an explicit verification checklist (Step 5) and a feedback/iterate loop (Step 6), plus guidance to skip steps only with clear reason.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-organized with clear section headers and teaches progressive-disclosure patterns well, but the skill ships no bundled reference files while inlining several illustrative directory-tree and pattern examples that could live in a reference.

4 / 5

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20

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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 is well-crafted: it concisely states what the skill does and gives explicit, natural trigger conditions covering the main authoring scenarios. Trigger term coverage is strong though not exhaustive of every synonym.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete actions — 'Create, update, or review', 'writing a new skill', 'modifying an existing SKILL.md', 'turning a repeated workflow into a reusable skill', 'organizing scripts, references, and assets' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both 'what' ('Create, update, or review Picoclaw skills') and 'when' ('Use when writing a new skill, modifying an existing SKILL.md...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural trigger phrases like 'writing a new skill', 'modifying an existing SKILL.md', and 'organizing scripts, references, and assets' are present, but a few common synonyms ('build a skill', 'skill template') are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The skill occupies a clear niche (Picoclaw skill authoring) with distinct triggers like 'SKILL.md' and 'reusable skill', presenting minimal conflict risk with other skills.

5 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

relative_links

Relative link issues: 6 missing

Warning

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 12 missing

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
sipeed/picoclaw
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