dev-guide-generator

Generates complete technical tutorials from prerequisites and environment setup to core steps, troubleshooting, and a final cheatsheet. Trigger on requests to write a tutorial, create a setup guide, organize steps for beginners, or keywords like step-by-step, quickstart, or how-to guide.

Quality

88%

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Passed

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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.

The skill is highly actionable with a well-structured, validation-rich workflow and concrete templates. Its main weaknesses are verbosity in places and a monolithic single-file structure with no progressive disclosure to external references.

Suggestions

Trim restated per-phase 'Goal' prose and inferable explanations (e.g., the 200-word dependency decision rule) to improve token efficiency.

Move the large Phase 8 document template and the troubleshooting/cheatsheet format blocks into separate reference files (e.g., TUTORIAL_TEMPLATE.md, CHEATSHEET_FORMAT.md) and link them from the body to improve progressive disclosure.

Consider extracting the Quality Checklist into a short reference so the core SKILL.md body reads as an overview pointing to detail.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is thorough and largely instructional, but it is lengthy (~370 lines) with some prose restating the goal of each phase and explaining general concepts (e.g., dependency decision rules) that Claude could infer; it could be tightened without losing clarity.	2 / 3
Actionability	It provides concrete, copy-paste-ready templates for prerequisites, install commands, verification snippets, error-entry format, and the cheatsheet structure, giving executable guidance throughout.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The 8-phase SOP is clearly sequenced with per-phase Goals/Steps/Outputs, explicit self-check rules, a pre-output Quality Checklist, and an Iterative Refinement feedback loop that re-executes from the affected phase.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	There are no bundle files in references/scripts/assets and the body keeps all detail inline in one monolithic SKILL.md; while well-sectioned internally, content such as the full document template or troubleshooting format could be split into referenced files.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 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.

A strong description: it states concrete capabilities, provides explicit trigger guidance with natural keywords, and is clearly distinct from other skills. It uses correct third-person voice and stays concise.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description lists multiple concrete actions — 'prerequisites and environment setup to core steps, troubleshooting, and a final cheatsheet' — naming distinct deliverables rather than vague language.	3 / 3
Completeness	It answers both 'what' (generates complete technical tutorials across named phases) and 'when' via the explicit 'Trigger on requests to write a tutorial...' clause, satisfying the explicit-trigger requirement.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	It surfaces natural user phrases like 'step-by-step', 'quickstart', 'how-to guide', 'setup guide', and 'organize steps for beginners', which users would plausibly say when needing this skill.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The tutorial/guide generation niche with these specific triggers is clearly scoped and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills like PDF extraction or commit-message writing.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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 — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository: zebbern/claude-code-guide
Path: skills/dev-guide-generator/SKILL.md
Commit: af7d491

Reviewed: about 8 hours ago

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