python-resilience

Python resilience patterns including automatic retries, exponential backoff, timeouts, and fault-tolerant decorators. Use when adding retry logic, implementing timeouts, building fault-tolerant services, or handling transient failures.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well-structured and highly actionable, leading with executable tenacity patterns and cleanly offloading advanced examples to a real, well-organized references/details.md file. Its only weakness is mild over-explanation in the Core Concepts section that slightly inflates the token budget.

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Tighten the 'Core Concepts' section: drop dictionary-style definitions of backoff and jitter (Claude already knows these) and keep only the skill-specific guidance such as the bounded-retry rule.

Trim the one-line prose introductions before each pattern (e.g. 'Use the tenacity library for production-grade retry logic') since the code and headings already convey intent.

Consider moving the 'Best Practices Summary' numbering into the relevant pattern sections or the details file to reduce top-level length, since it partly reiterates points already made in Core Concepts.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient with executable tenacity snippets that assume Claude's competence, but the 'Core Concepts' section restates known ideas (what exponential backoff and jitter are) and a few prose intros could be trimmed, fitting the score-4 'minor instances of over-explanation' anchor rather than the lean score-5.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready tenacity decorators covering retry-by-exception, retry-by-status-code, and combined strategies, plus a Quick Start example, matching the score-5 'fully executable; copy-paste ready; covers common cases' anchor.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Sequenced via progressive patterns (basic retry -> selective errors -> status codes -> combined) with a numbered Best Practices checklist, giving a clear progression; it lacks explicit validation feedback-loops, but the operations are not destructive/batch so the score-3 cap does not apply, landing at 4.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a concise overview with a single, clearly signaled one-level-deep reference to references/details.md (which exists and is well-organized with Patterns 5-9), matching the score-5 'clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references' anchor.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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The description is exemplary: it concisely states concrete capabilities and pairs them with explicit, natural 'Use when...' trigger guidance covering multiple scenarios. It is in third person, free of fluff, and clearly distinguishable from other skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'automatic retries, exponential backoff, timeouts, and fault-tolerant decorators' — covering the domain comprehensively, matching the score-5 anchor's multiple-specific-actions pattern.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (retries, backoff, timeouts, decorators) and 'when' ('Use when adding retry logic, implementing timeouts, building fault-tolerant services, or handling transient failures') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the score-5 anchor.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural user-facing phrases like 'adding retry logic', 'implementing timeouts', and 'handling transient failures', but omits common synonyms (e.g. 'circuit breaker', 'rate limiting') that appear only in the body, leaving a few natural terms missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear resilience/fault-tolerance niche with distinct triggers unlikely to collide with sibling skills, matching the score-5 'clear niche with distinct triggers; minimal conflict risk' anchor.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

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Repository: wshobson/agents
Path: plugins/python-development/skills/python-resilience/SKILL.md
Commit: d6837ae

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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