capture

Captures and organizes chaotic brain dumps into a structured, actionable system with zero information loss. Use this skill whenever the user says 'capture this', 'brain dump', 'let me dump some ideas', 'I've got a bunch of thoughts', 'here's everything on my mind', 'idea dump', 'let me get this out of my head', 'I need to organize my thoughts', 'here's what I'm thinking', or any variation where someone is unloading a messy stream of ideas, tasks, thoughts, and plans wanting them turned into something coherent. Also trigger when the user pastes or dictates a long, unstructured block of mixed ideas — even without the exact phrase — the intent is the same. Fast-to-action by design: no upfront intake. Output is four sections (Projects/Ideas, Tasks, Connections, How I Can Help) ending with a directive question. Asks at most one mid-organization clarifying question when a single item is genuinely ambiguous between task and project.

Quality

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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 highly actionable, well-structured skill body with excellent progressive disclosure and workflow checkpoints. The only weakness is moderate redundancy between the frontmatter and the body's trigger/principle sections.

Suggestions

Remove the duplicated explicit trigger-phrase list from the 'Invocation Triggers' section or replace it with a one-line pointer to the frontmatter, keeping only the implicit-signal bullets that add new information.

Consolidate 'Operating Principles' and 'Anti-Patterns To Reject' — several entries (dropping trivial items, corporate-ifying voice, acting without approval) state the same idea twice; keep one authoritative list.

Tighten the 'Grill-Me Mid-Organization Clarifier' section: the stop-condition and anti-pattern restate the 'max one question' rule already implied, which could be cut to a single sentence.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is efficient and mostly earns its tokens, but the trigger phrases are duplicated between the frontmatter and the 'Invocation Triggers' section, and 'Operating Principles' overlaps with 'Anti-Patterns To Reject'.	4 / 5
Actionability	Copy-paste-ready format templates for each section, a concrete right-pattern/anti-pattern table with explicit 'Output:' file paths, and named scripts with CLI invocations fully cover the common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Sequenced Sections 1–4 with an explicit Approval Gate checkpoint, a stop-condition (max one clarifier), and an Error Handling feedback table; the operation is non-destructive so the validation cap does not apply.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Clear overview in SKILL.md with well-signaled one-level-deep references; all three references/.md and three scripts/.py are real files, listed in a dedicated References section and signaled inline.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 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.

An exemplary description: concrete capabilities, abundant natural trigger terms, explicit what-and-when guidance, and a distinctive niche with low conflict risk. No changes needed.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — capturing/organizing into a named four-section system and asking at most one mid-organization clarifier — with comprehensive coverage and no gaps.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (captures and organizes into four sections with ≤1 clarifier) and when (a 'Use this skill whenever…' clause with concrete trigger phrases plus an implicit-paste trigger).	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Provides nine natural phrases users would actually say ('brain dump', 'capture this', 'let me dump some ideas', etc.) plus an 'any variation' catch-all, covering synonyms and paraphrases comprehensively.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche — brain-dump organization — with highly specific trigger phrases and a distinctive four-section output, giving it minimal overlap with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	20 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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

Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 1 suspicious	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: slurpyb/skills
Path: plugins/capture/skills/capture/SKILL.md
Commit: 3a9d051

Reviewed: ~2 hours ago

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