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testland/mailpit-testing

Configures and runs Mailpit - modern dev-mailbox server for SMTP testing with built-in REST API for assertions; default SMTP `1025` + Web UI `8025`; ships single static binary or multi-architecture Docker images; features Chaos mode (configurable SMTP errors for resilience testing), message tagging (manual + auto via filters and plus-addressing), search filters. Use when the user develops email-sending code locally / in CI and needs SMTP capture with programmatic test assertions, or when migrating from MailHog (which Mailpit succeeds).

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Quality

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85%

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

The body is highly actionable with a clear sequenced workflow and good organization, only weakened by some quoted marketing prose and a time-sensitive editorializing line that slightly pad the token budget.

Suggestions

Remove the quoted marketing sentence ('Mailpit is packed full of features...') and the 'mid-2020s / new projects start with Mailpit by default' editorializing; the feature bullets already convey this more concisely.

Consolidate the repeated 'Chaos feature to enable configurable SMTP errors' / 'automated tagging using filtering' quotes into a single terse feature list to avoid restating what the description already covers.

Move the version-pinning guidance (axllent/mailpit:v1.20.0) into the CI step itself rather than only the Limitations section, so the time-sensitive detail sits beside the action it protects.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient with executable code and a tight anti-patterns table, but it quotes marketing prose ('Mailpit is packed full of features for developers wanting to test SMTP and emails') and includes a time-sensitive fluff line ('de facto OSS dev mailbox in the mid-2020s; new projects start with Mailpit by default') that could be trimmed.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready, executable guidance throughout — brew/install commands, SMTP config for multiple frameworks, a complete Python poll-and-assert test, and a CI services block — fully matching the executable anchor.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Steps 1–7 are clearly sequenced, and the core test workflow has explicit validation checkpoints (clear inbox → trigger → poll with timeout → assert) with an anti-patterns table surfacing failure modes, so it is not capped at 2.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into Overview, When to use, numbered steps, Anti-patterns, Limitations, and References, with one-level-deep external links ([mp-docs], [mp-gh]) and sibling-skill pointers clearly signaled in a References section.

3 / 3

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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.

The description is specific, uses third person, covers natural trigger terms, and explicitly pairs what-it-does with when-to-use guidance including a MailHog migration trigger. It is a strong, distinctive skill description.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions in third person voice — 'Configures and runs Mailpit', 'built-in REST API for assertions', 'Chaos mode (configurable SMTP errors)', 'message tagging', 'search filters' — matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (configures/runs Mailpit with named features) and when via a clear 'Use when...' clause with concrete triggers, so it is not capped at 2.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Strong coverage of natural trigger phrases users would say — 'email-sending code locally / in CI', 'SMTP capture with programmatic test assertions', 'migrating from MailHog' — alongside product-specific terms.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (Mailpit SMTP testing) with distinct triggers and an explicit MailHog-migration use case, making conflict with other skills unlikely.

3 / 3

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Validation

93%

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

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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Relative link issues: 2 suspicious

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