summarize

Summarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).

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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.

A tight, highly actionable skill body with copy-paste commands, clear triggers, and a sensible feedback loop for large transcripts. Structure is well organized with only minor conciseness and progressive-disclosure refinements available.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean with well-organized sections and no padding of concepts Claude already knows; the only minor trim is the opening restatement "Fast CLI to summarize URLs, local files, and YouTube links" which duplicates the description.	4 / 5
Actionability	Quick start gives copy-paste-ready commands covering the common cases (URL, local file, YouTube), and flags/config/API-key examples are concrete and executable.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	This is a simple single-purpose CLI skill with unambiguous one-command actions, and the YouTube section adds a genuine feedback checkpoint ("return a tight summary first, then ask which section/time range to expand").	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Clean sectioned structure with no nested references and no bundle files to navigate; at ~60 lines it is slightly above the under-50 simple-skill threshold, and the flags/config detail could optionally live in a reference file.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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A concrete, source-aware description with good natural trigger terms, but it lacks an explicit "Use when..." clause, leaving the invocation conditions only weakly implied. Specificity and distinctiveness are solid.

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Add an explicit trigger clause such as "Use when the user asks to summarize a URL, article, podcast, or video, or to transcribe a YouTube/video."

Expand trigger terms with common user phrasings like "TL;DR", "summarize this article", or "what's this link about".

Mention supported local file types (e.g. PDF, .txt) to sharpen specificity and reduce overlap with generic file skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Summarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files" names the domain plus several concrete actions (summarize, extract text, extract transcripts) across multiple sources, with only minor coverage gaps.	4 / 5
Completeness	The "what" is clear, but there is no explicit "Use when..." clause; the parenthetical "(great fallback for 'transcribe this YouTube/video')" only weakly implies when, so per the missing-trigger-guidance rule completeness is capped at 3.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural terms users say — "summarize", "transcribe this YouTube/video", "URLs", "podcasts", "transcripts" — with good synonym coverage, though a few common phrasings (e.g. "TL;DR", "what's this link about") are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The summarize.sh niche with YouTube/transcript fallback triggers is mostly distinct from generic summarizers, with only minor overlap risk against closely related text-extraction skills.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Validation

81%

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Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: sipeed/picoclaw
Path: workspace/skills/summarize/SKILL.md
Commit: bbf6893

Reviewed: 17 days ago

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