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robots-txt

Use when applies to any public website. Use when auditing technical SEO foundations or diagnosing crawl coverage gaps.

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SKILL.md
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Content

72%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-organized, lean overview with concrete audit/fix guidance and a cleanly signaled single reference file one level deep. Its main weakness is workflow sequencing: steps are implicit and lack explicit validation checkpoints in the body itself.

Suggestions

Number the Check → Fix → Verify → Review steps explicitly and add a 'validate the file returns HTTP 200 after changes' checkpoint.

Inline one quick verification command (e.g. `curl -I "$ORIGIN/robots.txt"`) so the body is self-contained for the common case.

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Conciseness

The body is lean with bulleted Quick Reference and short Check/Fix/Explain sections that assume Claude's knowledge; the one background line is brief and justified as motivation rather than padding.

4 / 5

Actionability

Gives concrete, executable guidance — serve robots.txt at /robots.txt returning HTTP 200, include a Sitemap: directive, remove Disallow: / rules — with specific syntax and verification steps; minor gap is no inline curl command.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

An implicit Check → Fix → Explain → Code Review sequence exists with verification described in Check, but the body lacks explicit numbered steps and validation checkpoints for this audit-style task.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a concise overview with a single one-level-deep reference (references/rule.md) that exists as a real file and is clearly signaled at the end, giving easy navigation.

5 / 5

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Description

46%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 trigger ('Use when') and names the SEO audit domain, but it omits the core subject (robots.txt) and opens with an overly broad 'any public website' clause that raises overlap risk. It answers 'when' well but only weakly answers 'what'.

Suggestions

Lead with the concrete capability, e.g. 'Publishes and validates a robots.txt file for crawl access control.'

Replace 'applies to any public website' with a narrower trigger tied to robots.txt or crawl-rule audits to reduce conflict with adjacent SEO skills.

Add the natural trigger term 'robots.txt' and synonyms like 'SEO audit' so users can phrase the need directly.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the SEO/crawl-coverage domain and two concrete actions ('auditing technical SEO foundations', 'diagnosing crawl coverage gaps') but never states the actual capability — publishing/checking a robots.txt file — so coverage is incomplete.

3 / 5

Completeness

The 'when' is explicit ('Use when auditing...'), but the 'what' is only weakly implied — the description never names robots.txt as the subject, so it does not clearly answer both what and when.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms like 'technical SEO' and 'crawl coverage gaps' but omits the most obvious user phrasings such as 'robots.txt', 'SEO audit', or 'crawling', missing common synonyms.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The phrase 'applies to any public website' is very broad and would overlap with many SEO/web-audit skills, keeping conflict risk high despite the moderately specific audit triggers.

2 / 5

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11

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20

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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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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15

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16

Passed

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