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monorepo-management

Master monorepo management with Turborepo, Nx, and pnpm workspaces to build efficient, scalable multi-package repositories with optimized builds and dependency management. Use when setting up monorepos, optimizing builds, or managing shared dependencies.

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SKILL.md
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Content

68%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 highly actionable with complete, executable configs and a properly structured one-level reference file. Its weaknesses are removable Claude-known explanation in Core Concepts and Common Pitfalls, and an implicit rather than explicit workflow with no validation checkpoints around publishing.

Suggestions

Cut or compress the 'Why Monorepos?' advantages/challenges section and the gloss-style pitfall explanations to one-line hints — Claude already knows these concepts.

Add a short sequenced 'Publishing a package' workflow with a validation checkpoint (e.g., run 'turbo run build && turbo run test' and review the changeset before 'pnpm changeset version && pnpm changeset publish').

Move the full publishing/CI section (changesets commands and .github/workflows/release.yml snippet) into references/details.md, keeping only a one-line pointer in SKILL.md.

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Conciseness

The bulk is executable config and commands, but the 'Why Monorepos?' advantages/challenges section and parts of Common Pitfalls (e.g., 'Phantom Dependencies: Using deps not in package.json') restate concepts Claude already knows and could be trimmed.

3 / 5

Actionability

Copy-paste-ready guidance throughout: 'npx create-turbo@latest', complete turbo.json, root and package-level package.json examples, changesets commands, and a GitHub Actions release snippet cover the common setup-to-publish path.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Sections are topical rather than a sequenced workflow — the create → configure → structure → publish order is implicit, and publishing (a batch/release operation) has no validation checkpoints such as verifying the build before 'pnpm changeset version'.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

references/details.md exists, is one level deep, and is well-signaled via a dedicated navigation section ('Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient'), but the body still inlines a full publishing/CI section that could live one level down.

4 / 5

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Description

75%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 solid description that clearly states capabilities and explicit trigger guidance with a distinct tool-specific niche. It sits noticeably above the midpoint on every dimension but falls short of top marks due to non-comprehensive action coverage and missing natural trigger variations.

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Specificity

Names the tools (Turborepo, Nx, pnpm workspaces) and several concrete actions ('build efficient, scalable multi-package repositories with optimized builds and dependency management'), but coverage is not comprehensive — migration, publishing, and CI from the body are absent.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('build efficient, scalable multi-package repositories with optimized builds and dependency management') and when ('Use when setting up monorepos, optimizing builds, or managing shared dependencies'); the when-clause could be more specific with additional concrete triggers.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms users would say ('monorepos', 'Turborepo', 'Nx', 'pnpm workspaces', 'shared dependencies'), but misses common variations like 'multi-package repo', 'workspace setup', or 'migrate to monorepo'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The named-tool niche (Turborepo, Nx, pnpm workspaces) makes it mostly distinct, but generic triggers like 'optimizing builds' carry minor overlap risk with general build-performance skills.

4 / 5

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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

Path

plugins/developer-essentials/skills/monorepo-management/SKILL.md

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