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mac-maintenance

Mac upkeep: brew update/upgrade, pull clean repos, empty Trash.

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

87%

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 tight, fully-actionable maintenance routine with clean organization; its only gap is the absence of explicit validation/recovery checkpoints for the batch and destructive operations it performs.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation/recovery after the risky batch steps — e.g., capture and react to failed 'brew upgrade' or 'git pull' results rather than only reporting counts at the end.

Optionally flag Trash-emptying as destructive and confirm or verify success before reporting it emptied.

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Conciseness

Lean and efficient throughout — no explanation of concepts Claude already knows, with a single trigger line, executable commands, and a terse reporting list; every token earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable commands: 'brew update && brew upgrade', a real git pull loop, and 'osascript -e ...' to empty trash — copy-paste ready with no pseudocode.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear numbered sequence with a per-repo dirty-check and a final counts report, but the batch/destructive operations (bulk git pull, emptying Trash) lack an explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loop, so workflow clarity is capped at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Under 50 lines with well-organized sections (# Mac Maintenance, ## Run) and no need for external references, which meets the simple-skill bar for progressive disclosure.

3 / 3

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Description

67%

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 concrete and distinctive, naming specific maintenance actions, but it omits an explicit 'Use when...' trigger and leans on terse jargon rather than the natural terms a user would say.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when ...' clause to the description (e.g., 'Use when Peter asks for Mac cleanup, maintenance, or package/repo refresh') so both what and when are in the description.

Soften jargon and add natural variations: 'Homebrew' alongside 'brew', 'clean up'/'free up space' alongside 'Mac upkeep'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions: 'brew update/upgrade', 'pull clean repos', 'empty Trash' — comparable to the level-3 example of enumerating specific operations rather than vague language.

3 / 3

Completeness

The description clearly answers 'what' but lacks any 'Use when...' trigger guidance — that clause lives in the body, so per the judging guidelines completeness is capped at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Contains relevant terms ('Mac upkeep', 'brew', 'Trash') but they are terse and jargon-heavy, missing common natural variations like 'Homebrew', 'clean up', or 'free up space' that a user would actually say.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Mac-specific niche plus named actions (Homebrew, git repos, Trash) make it clearly distinguishable and unlikely to trigger for an unrelated skill.

3 / 3

Total

10

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12

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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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