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Use when reviewing content pages for user experience and SEO. Applies to blog posts, landing pages, how-to guides, and any long-form content intended for a broad audience.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

65%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 well-structured, actionable overview with excellent progressive disclosure to references/rule.md. Its main weaknesses are redundancy (Check vs Code Review, Explain vs intro) and the absence of a re-check/validation loop after applying fixes.

Suggestions

Merge the near-duplicate "Check" and "Code Review" sections into one analysis procedure (the page-audit variant can be a one-line note) to cut repeated instructions.

Add a verification step after "Fix": re-estimate the Flesch score on the revised text and iterate until it reaches 60+ for general audiences.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean, but the "Check" and "Code Review" sections are near-duplicates (both: calculate Flesch-Kincaid, count 25+ word sentences, 4+ sentence paragraphs, passive voice), and "Explain" repeats the intro's bounce-rate rationale.

3 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is concrete for an instruction-only skill — exact thresholds (Flesch 60–70, sentences over 25 words, subheadings every 200–300 words) and specific fix techniques (break at conjunctions, active voice, plain-language swaps). It falls short of fully executable because no method or formula for computing the grade level is given in the body.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Check → Fix → Explain implies a loose sequence, but "Code Review" is an alternate context rather than a step, and there are no verification checkpoints confirming the revised text actually hits the target score.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A short, well-sectioned overview (Quick Reference, Check, Fix, Explain) with a clearly signaled one-level-deep reference — "see `references/rule.md`" — which exists in the bundle and holds the detail tables and examples.

5 / 5

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Description

53%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 has a clear and appropriately scoped 'when' clause with useful content-type examples, but it never states what the skill concretely does (readability/reading-level analysis) and omits the very synonyms users would use to request it. It reads more like a category label than a capability statement.

Suggestions

State the concrete action, e.g. "Analyzes page readability: estimates the Flesch-Kincaid grade level and flags long sentences, passive voice, and jargon, then rewrites them for a Grade 8–10 audience."

Add the missing natural trigger terms — "readability", "reading level", "reading grade", "Flesch" — so users asking to 'check the reading level of this post' match the skill.

Differentiate from generic content-review skills by leading with the readability niche rather than broad "user experience and SEO" review.

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Specificity

The description names the domain ("reviewing content pages for user experience and SEO") but its only action is the generic verb "reviewing" — no concrete capabilities like readability scoring or sentence analysis are stated.

2 / 5

Completeness

It has an explicit "Use when reviewing content pages for user experience and SEO" trigger plus applicable content types, but the 'what' remains generic ("reviewing") without concrete actions or trigger phrases.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It lists natural content-type terms ("blog posts, landing pages, how-to guides, long-form content"), but the core synonyms a user would actually say — "readability", "reading level", "Flesch" — are entirely absent, so common variations are missing.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Reviewing content pages for user experience and SEO" overlaps heavily with sibling content-quality and SEO audit skills; nothing in the description uniquely separates readability assessment from them.

3 / 5

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Validation

93%

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

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Total

15

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16

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