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review-claudemd

Review recent conversations to find improvements for CLAUDE.md files.

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

87%

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

The content is concise, highly actionable, and well-structured, but the batch subagent workflow lacks explicit validation and error-recovery checkpoints, which caps workflow clarity at 2.

Suggestions

Add a validation checkpoint after extraction (e.g., confirm each scratch file is non-empty before dispatching agents) and a retry path for failed/empty extractions.

Add a verification step in aggregation (e.g., confirm every subagent returned bullet points and flag empty results) so errors are surfaced rather than silently dropped.

Move the long subagent prompt template into a referenced file if the skill grows, to preserve the lean overview.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean and executable — bash/jq snippets and a copy-paste prompt template with no padding explaining what CLAUDE.md or conversations are, so every token earns its place.

3 / 3

Actionability

It provides complete executable commands (project-folder discovery, jq extraction, scratch batching) plus a concrete subagent prompt template and explicit batch-size rules, which is copy-paste ready.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The four steps are clearly sequenced, but this is a batch operation over many conversations and there is no validation or error-recovery checkpoint (e.g., verifying agents returned valid findings or handling empty extractions); `2>/dev/null` and `grep -v` silently drop errors, so per the guidelines workflow clarity is capped at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is under 50 lines, single-purpose, has no bundle files, and is organized into four clearly headed sections, so per the simple-skills note it earns a 3 without external references.

3 / 3

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12

Passed

Description

57%

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 specific and distinctive in its niche but lacks an explicit "Use when..." trigger and comprehensive natural-language keywords, capping most dimensions at 2.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when the user wants to improve or update their CLAUDE.md files based on recent work."

Enumerate concrete actions to lift specificity, e.g. "Review conversations, identify violated or missing instructions, and suggest additions to global and local CLAUDE.md files."

Include natural user phrasings like "update my CLAUDE.md", "review my memory files", or "improve project instructions" to improve trigger-term coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The phrase "Review recent conversations to find improvements for CLAUDE.md files" names the domain and a couple of actions (review, find improvements) but does not enumerate multiple concrete actions like extracting, analyzing, or drafting edits, so it sits at level 2 rather than 3.

2 / 3

Completeness

It answers what the skill does but provides no explicit "Use when..." trigger, and per the guidelines a missing trigger clause caps completeness at 2 rather than 3.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

It surfaces relevant terms ("conversations", "CLAUDE.md files") but omits common natural variations a user would actually say ("improve my CLAUDE.md", "review my memory/instructions"), so coverage is partial rather than comprehensive.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is narrow and specific (improving CLAUDE.md files from conversation history), with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the level-3 anchor.

3 / 3

Total

9

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12

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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
ykdojo/claude-code-tips
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