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define-loop

Define a Loop — a durable scaffold that works a queue of recurring tasks autonomously (Sentry issues, Front tickets, small perf PRs) with its outputs held for human review. Use when someone wants an agent to keep doing a kind of work on a schedule, rather than one-off. Walks the interview, runs one real item live before arming anything, then writes the playbook and creates the loop.

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96%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.

An exceptionally tight process skill: every stage is concrete, validation gates are explicit and repeated (shadow run, user confirmation, held ship actions, refuse-to-arm criteria), and nothing pads the token budget. The only structural note is that a ~105-line single file could shed some detail sections into a reference file.

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Conciseness

Lean and dense throughout (~105 lines for a four-stage process) with zero explanation of concepts Claude already knows; it never explains what cron, Sentry, or a PR is. Every rule earns its place ('A playbook written before the shadow run is a guess; one written after is a procedure').

5 / 5

Actionability

Fully actionable for an instruction-only skill: the interview table specifies each datum and why (the stable id as dedupe key), the success-condition section gives a complete worked example ('linked PR whose tests pass and CI is green... or park with a diagnosis after 5 turns'), stage 2 is a numbered concrete procedure, stage 3 names the `loop` tool parameters, and the refuse-to-arm list is concrete.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Explicit four-stage sequence with strong validation checkpoints appropriate to an autonomous, externally-visible batch process: 'never arm a loop you have not watched work', user confirmation in the shadow run, successChecks that block completion on failure, all ship actions starting at 'hold', and feedback loops (fix what the user flags; fix the playbook when outputs are returned).

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and the single file is well-sectioned with clear stage headers. However, at ~105 lines it exceeds overview size, and detail like success-condition authoring or live-loop editing could live in a reference file; the under-50-line simple-skill exception does not apply, so this sits at 'good structure; minor organization gaps'.

4 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Description

87%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 strong description: concrete, in third person, with an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause that distinguishes recurring autonomous work from one-off tasks. Minor gaps in capability coverage (loop editing, graduation) keep specificity and trigger coverage at 4 rather than 5.

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Specificity

The description names the domain and several concrete actions ('works a queue of recurring tasks autonomously', 'outputs held for human review', 'walks the interview, runs one real item live', 'writes the playbook and creates the loop') plus concrete examples (Sentry issues, Front tickets, small perf PRs). Not a 5 because coverage has gaps — editing live loops, graduation, and the supervised-fire stage are absent.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both: the 'what' is a durable scaffold working a queue of recurring tasks with outputs held for review, and the 'when' is concrete — 'Use when someone wants an agent to keep doing a kind of work on a schedule, rather than one-off.' This matches the anchor-5 example structure (what + explicit trigger phrases).

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Contains natural phrases a user would actually say ('keep doing a kind of work on a schedule', 'recurring tasks', 'rather than one-off'). Good keyword coverage, but a few natural synonyms ('automate', 'repeatedly') are missing, so it sits between anchors 4 and 5, at 4.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche — autonomous recurring work with a human review gate — explicitly contrasted with one-off work and named sources (Sentry issues, Front tickets), so it is unlikely to trigger for the wrong skill.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository

yc-software/qm

Path

skills-seed/define-loop/SKILL.md

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