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helm-chart-scaffolding

Design, organize, and manage Helm charts for templating and packaging Kubernetes applications with reusable configurations. Use when creating Helm charts, packaging Kubernetes applications, or implementing templated deployments.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

43%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 reasonable overview with genuinely useful troubleshooting commands, but it functions more as a topic summary than an operating guide: the core scaffolding workflow is unsequenced, the actionable 'helm create'-based steps live only in the reference file, and most bundle files (chart-structure.md, validate-chart.sh, asset templates) are unlinked. Tightening the redundant Purpose/When-to-Use overlap would free tokens for a concrete step sequence.

Suggestions

Add a numbered scaffold workflow with inline commands and an explicit validation checkpoint, e.g. 1. 'helm create my-app' 2. edit values.yaml 3. validate: 'helm template my-app ./my-app > /dev/null && scripts/validate-chart.sh .' 4. 'helm package my-app' — only proceed when validation passes.

Link every bundle file from the body: reference references/chart-structure.md for directory conventions, scripts/validate-chart.sh for the validation step, and assets/Chart.yaml.template + assets/values.yaml.template as starting points.

Remove the redundancy between the intro line, 'Purpose', and 'When to Use This Skill' (three restatements of the same scope), and fix the awkward 'Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient' sentence to a plain conditional like 'Consult details.md when you need worked examples beyond this overview.'

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean and avoids explaining what Helm is, but the opening line, the 'Purpose' section, and 'When to Use This Skill' each restate the same scope three times, and the 'Detailed patterns' pointer sentence ('Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient') is awkward filler that could be trimmed.

3 / 5

Actionability

The Troubleshooting section gives real executable commands ('helm template my-app ./my-app --debug', 'helm dependency update', 'helm install --dry-run --debug'), but the primary task — scaffolding a chart — has no concrete steps or commands in the body (e.g., 'helm create' is absent), leaving key details only in the referenced file.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

There is no sequenced workflow for building a chart in the body — Best Practices is an unordered list of aphorisms ('Use semantic versioning', 'Test installations') and Troubleshooting is reactive. Validation exists only as a bare best-practice bullet and a troubleshooting command, not as an ordered checkpoint, leaving the sequence poorly defined with many gaps.

2 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well split — a lean overview pointing one level deep to references/details.md — but measured against the actual bundle, the pointer covers only one of four bundle artifacts: references/chart-structure.md, scripts/validate-chart.sh, and the assets/*.yaml.template files are never mentioned, leaving most of the bundle undiscoverable.

3 / 5

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Description

87%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: it clearly states what the skill does and when to use it with concrete, natural trigger phrases in third-person voice. Minor room to sharpen generic verbs and add common synonyms (K8s, values files, chart repositories).

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description lists several concrete actions — 'Design, organize, and manage Helm charts', 'templating and packaging Kubernetes applications', 'reusable configurations' — though verbs like 'organize' and 'manage' stay somewhat abstract, leaving minor gaps versus the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both questions: the 'what' ('Design, organize, and manage Helm charts for templating and packaging Kubernetes applications with reusable configurations') and the 'when' ('Use when creating Helm charts, packaging Kubernetes applications, or implementing templated deployments') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases users would say are present — 'creating Helm charts', 'packaging Kubernetes applications', 'implementing templated deployments' — but common synonyms and artifacts (e.g., 'K8s', 'Helm releases', 'values.yaml', 'chart repositories') are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Helm charts' plus Kubernetes packaging is a clear niche with distinct triggers; only minimal overlap risk with a generic Kubernetes-manifest skill, which the explicit 'Helm' trigger terms disambiguate.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

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Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

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wshobson/agents

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plugins/kubernetes-operations/skills/helm-chart-scaffolding/SKILL.md

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