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docs-writing

Load to write, rewrite, or review repository markdown or documentation HTML: README, DEVELOPMENT, architecture docs, reference docs, SKILL.md and AGENTS.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.

A disciplined, information-dense writing standard with genuinely concrete per-file-type guidance and strong in-body organization. Its two structural weaknesses are that the core operating mechanism (read the finished example, follow the rewrite workflow) points at bundle files that are not present, and that validation for batch rewrites is stated as a principle rather than an explicit checkpointed step.

Suggestions

Ship the referenced bundle files (examples/*.md and workflows/rewrite.md) with the skill, or inline the minimal content each depends on, since the body's core instructions ("read it before writing one", "follows workflows/rewrite.md") dead-end without them.

Add an explicit validation loop to the rewrite route (e.g., re-verify each claim against its owning source after writing, and re-run the checks when a link or claim fails) so the batch-replace workflow has a checkpointed error-recovery step.

Move the kendex project-instructions block (refresh workflows, instruction migration) into a separate project file so the skill body spends its token budget on the writing standard it teaches.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is a dense rulebook with no concept explanations Claude already knows ("Write short sentences. Put one idea in each sentence."), but the kendex project-instructions block about refresh workflows and "hosted control VM" is unrelated to the doc-writing purpose, and the 13-file examples list is enumerated in full twice ("read it before writing one" in § Per file type and again in § Writing).

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, specific guidance throughout for an instruction-only skill: an Instead-of/Write table, an ordered README section list ("1. A brief description... 8. Licence."), a layout table with paths and readers, and the ordered "ask the questions below in order and stop at the first yes" decision procedure. Not a 5 because the executable rewrite steps are delegated to workflows/rewrite.md, which is not present in the bundle.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A sequence is present (classify the claim, read the finished example, write from a blank page, "verifies each claim against its owning source"), but validation checkpoints are implicit rather than explicit steps with error-recovery loops, and the detailed workflow lives in the missing workflows/rewrite.md. A repository-wide rewrite is a batch operation over many files, and the body itself contains no validate-fix-retry loop, which caps this at 3.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well sectioned and every reference is clearly signaled ("The finished example for each type is under examples/; read it before writing one"), but scored against the actual bundle only references/assistant-home.md exists — the 13 referenced examples/*.md files, workflows/rewrite.md, and ../decider/SKILL.md are absent, so most navigation dead-ends. This sits between anchor 3 (references present but problematic) and anchor 4 (references mostly clear with minor gaps); the scale of missing referenced files keeps it at 3.

3 / 5

Total

14

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20

Passed

Description

80%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.

A strong description: concrete actions, enumerated target file types, and explicit load conditions in an economical two-line form. Its only gaps are missing natural synonyms ("docs", "documentation") and user-mention trigger phrasing that would push trigger quality and completeness to the top anchor.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"write, rewrite, or review" names three concrete actions and the targets are enumerated concretely ("README, DEVELOPMENT, architecture docs, reference docs, SKILL.md and AGENTS.md"), with "repository markdown or documentation HTML" closing the domain. Not a 4 because coverage of the domain is comprehensive, not "minor gaps".

5 / 5

Completeness

The what is explicit ("write, rewrite, or review repository markdown or documentation HTML") and the "Load to..." construction gives equivalent explicit task-based trigger guidance. Not a 5 because it lacks concrete user-mention trigger phrases ("when the user asks to rewrite a README..."); not a 3 because the when-condition is stated, not weakly implied.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural-keyword coverage: real filenames users mention ("README", "SKILL.md and AGENTS.md") plus "repository markdown" and "documentation HTML". Not a 5 because common phrasings like bare "documentation", "docs", or ".md" are absent, so a user saying "clean up the docs" matches less directly.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (repository documentation writing standard) with distinct file-name triggers that few other skills would claim. Not a 5 because "write, rewrite, or review repository markdown" broadly spans all repo docs and has minor overlap with adjacent skills it itself names (decider, bot-instructions).

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

75%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 12 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

relative_links

Relative link issues: 29 missing, 1 suspicious

Warning

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 2 missing

Warning

Total

12

/

16

Passed

Repository

vanillagreencom/kendex

Path

.agents/skills/docs-writing/SKILL.md

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