task-coordination-strategies
Decompose complex tasks, design dependency graphs, and coordinate multi-agent work with proper task descriptions and workload balancing. Use this skill when breaking down work for agent teams, managing task dependencies, or monitoring team progress.
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Does it follow best practices?
Impact
92%
1.10xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./plugins/agent-teams/skills/task-coordination-strategies/SKILL.mdQuality
Discovery
85%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a well-structured description that clearly communicates both capabilities and usage triggers. It names specific actions and includes an explicit 'Use this skill when...' clause. The main weakness is that trigger terms lean slightly technical ('dependency graphs', 'multi-agent work') and could benefit from more natural user-facing language variations.
Suggestions
Add more natural trigger term variations users might say, such as 'split up work', 'parallel tasks', 'orchestrate agents', 'task planning', or 'divide and conquer'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'Decompose complex tasks', 'design dependency graphs', 'coordinate multi-agent work', 'proper task descriptions', and 'workload balancing'. These are distinct, actionable capabilities. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both what ('Decompose complex tasks, design dependency graphs, and coordinate multi-agent work with proper task descriptions and workload balancing') and when ('Use this skill when breaking down work for agent teams, managing task dependencies, or monitoring team progress') with explicit trigger guidance. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes some relevant terms like 'task dependencies', 'agent teams', 'team progress', and 'breaking down work', but these are somewhat specialized. Users might more naturally say things like 'split up work', 'parallel tasks', 'orchestrate agents', or 'task planning' which aren't covered. | 2 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The focus on multi-agent coordination, dependency graphs, and workload balancing creates a clear niche that is unlikely to conflict with general task management or project planning skills. The agent-specific framing is distinctive. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
50%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill provides a solid conceptual framework for task coordination with good structure and a useful task description template. However, it leans more toward describing strategies than providing executable, copy-paste-ready guidance, and it lacks validation checkpoints in its workflows. Some content could be tightened by removing concepts Claude already understands (basic dependency patterns, obvious decomposition categories) and adding more concrete tool invocation examples.
Suggestions
Add concrete, executable examples of tool invocations (e.g., exact TaskCreate/TaskUpdate JSON payloads with realistic parameters) rather than pseudocode-style illustrations.
Add explicit validation/feedback loops to the rebalancing workflow — e.g., 'After reassignment, call TaskList again to verify improved distribution; if still imbalanced, repeat.'
Trim the decomposition strategies section — Claude already understands architectural layers, components, and concerns. Focus on the non-obvious guidance like file ownership boundaries and conflict avoidance.
Consider splitting the task description template and workload monitoring table into referenced files to keep the main SKILL.md as a concise overview with navigation links.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is reasonably well-organized but includes some information Claude would already know (e.g., basic dependency graph concepts, what architectural layers are). The decomposition strategies section lists obvious categories without adding much novel insight. Some tightening is possible. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The task description template and blockedBy/blocks pseudo-API calls provide concrete guidance, but the code examples are pseudocode/illustrative rather than executable. The decomposition strategies are descriptive categories rather than actionable instructions. The rebalancing steps reference tool names but lack concrete invocation syntax. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The rebalancing steps provide a clear sequence, and the dependency graph section outlines patterns well. However, there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops — e.g., no step to verify that task reassignment resolved the imbalance, or that the dependency graph is acyclic before proceeding. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is well-structured with clear headers and sections, but it's a fairly long monolithic document with no references to external files for deeper dives. The task template and workload monitoring table could be split into referenced files to keep the main skill leaner. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 8 / 12 Passed |
Validation
90%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 10 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 10 / 11 Passed | |
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