clinical-trials-search

Search ClinicalTrials.gov with natural language queries. Find clinical trials, enrollment, and outcomes using Valyu semantic search.

Quality

80%

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Quality

Content

77%

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

A highly actionable skill body with executable commands and a clear setup workflow, weakened by marketing-style padding and by referencing script files that are not actually bundled with the skill.

Suggestions

Remove the 'Why This Skill is Powerful' benefits section and the 'Adding to Your Project' SDK integration block to trim tokens that don't aid invocation.

Either ship the referenced scripts/search and scripts/search.mjs in a scripts/ bundle or replace the path references with the actual API-call instructions inline.

Move the Python/TypeScript SDK integration examples into a separate references/ file (e.g. INTEGRATION.md) linked from the body for clean one-level-deep disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient with concrete commands, but padded with non-essential material — the 'Why This Skill is Powerful' benefits list and the full 'Adding to Your Project' Python/TypeScript SDK integration add tokens that don't help Claude invoke the skill.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides fully executable bash commands with real arguments, jq processing examples, a complete JSON output schema, and copy-paste-ready SDK snippets — concrete and complete.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The API-key setup flow is an explicit sequenced procedure (ask user → run setup → retry) with a feedback loop via 'setup_required', and exit codes give clear success/error checkpoints.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body repeatedly invokes scripts/search and scripts/search.mjs, yet no bundle files exist in references/, scripts/, or assets/, so referenced paths are not real files; inline SDK integration code that belongs in a separate reference also keeps this from a clean split.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

82%

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 specific, well-targeted description that clearly communicates the skill's purpose and domain. Its main weakness is the absence of an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, leaving the activation guidance implied rather than stated.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause such as 'Use when the user asks about clinical trials, trial enrollment, recruitment status, or treatment outcomes' to lift completeness to 3.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Search ClinicalTrials.gov with natural language queries', 'Find clinical trials, enrollment, and outcomes' — naming the data source and the specific retrieval targets.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers 'what does this do' but lacks any explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, so the 'when to use' guidance is only implied — which caps completeness at 2 per the judging guidelines.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Uses natural, user-sayable terms ('clinical trials', 'enrollment', 'outcomes', 'semantic search') with good coverage of common variations, in proper third-person voice.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The niche is sharply defined (ClinicalTrials.gov via Valyu semantic search) with distinct domain-specific triggers, making overlap with other skills unlikely.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 9 missing	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: wu-yc/LabClaw
Path: skills/literature/clinical-trials-search/SKILL.md
Commit: df37802

Reviewed: about 2 hours ago

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