environment-setup
Configure and manage development, staging, and production environments. Use when setting up environment variables, managing configurations, or separating environments. Handles .env files, config management, and environment-specific settings.
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Does it follow best practices?
Impact
99%
1.23xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
Quality
Discovery
100%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a well-crafted skill description that clearly articulates specific capabilities (environment configuration, .env file handling), includes an explicit 'Use when...' clause with natural trigger terms, and establishes a distinct niche. The description uses proper third-person voice and covers multiple concrete actions without being verbose.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'Configure and manage development, staging, and production environments', 'setting up environment variables', 'managing configurations', 'Handles .env files, config management, and environment-specific settings'. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both what ('Configure and manage development, staging, and production environments', 'Handles .env files, config management') AND when ('Use when setting up environment variables, managing configurations, or separating environments'). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes natural keywords users would say: 'environment variables', '.env files', 'config management', 'development', 'staging', 'production', 'configurations', 'environment-specific settings'. Good coverage of common variations. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Clear niche focused on environment configuration with distinct triggers like '.env files', 'environment variables', 'staging', 'production'. Unlikely to conflict with general coding or deployment skills due to specific environment management focus. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
64%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill provides excellent actionable code examples for environment configuration with type-safe validation patterns. However, it's somewhat verbose with unnecessary metadata sections and empty example placeholders, and lacks explicit validation/verification steps for what can be a risky operation (misconfigured environments causing production issues).
Suggestions
Add explicit validation checkpoints like 'Run `npm run config:validate` before deploying' or 'Test environment loads: `node -e "require('./config');"`' to catch configuration errors early
Remove empty example placeholders at the end and the metadata/version section which don't add actionable value
Consider moving the detailed environment-specific config files (Step 4) to a separate ENVIRONMENTS.md reference file to keep the main skill focused on core patterns
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is mostly efficient with good code examples, but includes some unnecessary sections like empty example placeholders, metadata/version info that doesn't add value, and the 'When to use this skill' section states obvious use cases Claude would infer. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully executable, copy-paste ready code examples throughout - complete .env templates, TypeScript validation with Zod, config file structures, and Docker compose configurations. All code is concrete and immediately usable. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps are numbered and sequenced (Step 1-5), but lacks explicit validation checkpoints. For environment configuration which can cause production issues, there should be verification steps like 'test config loads correctly' or 'validate before deployment' feedback loops. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Content is reasonably structured with clear sections, but the skill is quite long (~200 lines of code examples) that could benefit from splitting detailed examples into separate reference files. The References section points to external docs but internal organization could be improved. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |
Validation
90%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 10 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
metadata_version | 'metadata.version' is missing | Warning |
Total | 10 / 11 Passed | |
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