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.

1.10x

Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

92%

1.10x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

65%

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

The body is actionable and well-structured with concrete templates and tool calls, but it keeps dependency-graph patterns and decomposition strategies inline while orphaning the two bundled reference files that cover the same ground. Adding validation checkpoints to the rebalancing workflow and linking the reference files would raise the weaker dimensions.

Suggestions

Replace the inline dependency-graph patterns and decomposition strategy detail with one-level-deep links to references/dependency-graphs.md and references/task-decomposition.md so the body stays a concise overview and the bundled files are actually signaled.

Add an explicit validation/verification checkpoint to the Workload Monitoring rebalancing workflow (e.g., confirm reassignments took effect via TaskList before declaring rebalanced) to lift workflow_clarity above 2.

Drop or condense the opening paragraph that restates the frontmatter description to tighten conciseness.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient (bullet lists, tables, no concept-explaining fluff), but the opening line restates the frontmatter description and the inline dependency-graph patterns plus decomposition strategies duplicate content already in the bundled reference files, so it could be tightened — landing on the score-2 rather than score-3 anchor.	2 / 3
Actionability	Concrete TaskCreate/TaskUpdate calls with real syntax, a copy-paste task-description template with actual file paths and API endpoints, and specific rebalancing tool calls (TaskList, TaskUpdate, SendMessage) meet the fully-executable score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The rebalancing steps are sequenced (1-5) and the task template is structured, but the batch operation of reassigning tasks lacks an explicit validation checkpoint (only "Monitor for improved throughput"), so per the batch-operation guideline workflow clarity is capped at 2 rather than reaching the explicit-validate score-3 anchor.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Bundle files references/dependency-graphs.md and references/task-decomposition.md exist but are never linked or signaled from the body, while overlapping pattern/strategy content is kept inline — matching the score-2 anchor (references present but not clearly signaled; content that should be separate is inline) rather than the well-signaled one-level-deep score-3 anchor.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong: it names several concrete actions, includes an explicit "Use this skill when..." trigger clause, and occupies a distinct multi-agent task-coordination niche. It is concise and uses proper third-person voice throughout.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Decompose complex tasks, design dependency graphs, and coordinate multi-agent work with proper task descriptions and workload balancing" lists multiple specific concrete actions in third person, matching the score-3 anchor rather than the single-action score-2 example.	3 / 3
Completeness	It states both what ("Decompose... design dependency graphs... coordinate multi-agent work") and an explicit when ("Use this skill when breaking down work for agent teams..."), satisfying the explicit-what-and-when score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"breaking down work for agent teams, managing task dependencies, or monitoring team progress" provides good coverage of natural phrases a user would say, clearing the score-3 bar over the partial-coverage score-2 anchor.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The multi-agent coordination niche with triggers like "agent teams", "dependency graphs", and "workload balancing" is distinct and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the clear-niche score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: wshobson/agents
Commit: 5cc2549

Reviewed: 7 days ago

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