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hn-summarize

Fetch and summarize Hacker News / hckrnews.com top stories, articles, and their comment threads. Use when asked to summarize HN front-page stories, a specific HN story plus its discussion, or "the top N from hckrnews".

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Quality

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Quality

Content

93%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.

The content is highly actionable and token-efficient, with copy-paste-ready commands for each workflow and genuinely non-obvious domain knowledge throughout. Organization is clean and self-contained; the only minor gap is the absence of explicit validation checkpoints in the read-only fetch workflows.

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Conciseness

The body is lean: each section is a brief, non-obvious note (e.g., that hckrnews is JS-rendered, Algolia's per-comment points are null) followed directly by code, with no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows.

5 / 5

Actionability

All four workflows provide copy-paste ready curl + python3 one-liners that are fully executable and cover the common cases (top N, topic search, comment tree, article fetch with Wayback fallback).

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The four numbered sections plus Summary format give a clear, sequenced structure with error-recovery fallbacks for the most fragile step (article fetch via Wayback/proxy), but there are no explicit validation checkpoints across the read-only fetch steps.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is a single self-contained SKILL.md with well-organized, clearly-headed sections and no content that needs splitting into separate files, satisfying the simple-skill exception for progressive disclosure.

5 / 5

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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.

The description is well-crafted: it states concrete capabilities and provides explicit 'Use when' triggers with natural phrasing and synonyms. It is clearly niche-scoped to Hacker News with low conflict risk.

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Specificity

Names the HN domain and concrete actions ('Fetch and summarize', 'top stories, articles, and their comment threads'), covering multiple content targets, which is several specific actions with only minor gaps in coverage.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Fetch and summarize Hacker News / hckrnews.com top stories, articles, and their comment threads') and when ('Use when asked to summarize HN front-page stories, a specific HN story plus its discussion, or the top N from hckrnews') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural user phrases ('summarize HN front-page stories', 'a specific HN story plus its discussion', 'the top N from hckrnews') and synonyms (HN, Hacker News, hckrnews), though a few natural variants are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a clear niche (Hacker News / hckrnews) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, giving minimal conflict risk.

5 / 5

Total

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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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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ykdojo/claude-code-tips
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