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testland/qa-hiring-kit

End-to-end structured hiring for QA / SDET / automation / test-lead / quality-manager roles - one chain from job description through interview question bank, competency-anchored scoring rubric, interviewer calibration guide, and post-interview panel debrief, to the 30-60-90 day onboarding plan. Implements the canonical Levashina 2014 et al. structured-interview methodology with ISTQB-aligned competency vocabulary.

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85%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.

Well-structured instruction skill with an excellent, validation-rich debrief workflow and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure. Weakest on conciseness (redundant research rationale) and body-level actionability for the delegated authoring stages.

Suggestions

Trim the in-line research rationale (anchoring-bias and inter-rater-reliability explanations) to a short citation; Claude already knows these concepts and the procedure stands without the justification.

Add a compact inline spec or micro-template for at least one authoring stage (e.g. the rubric's competency×question anchor table shape) so the body is actionable without always opening the reference.

Move the methodological 'Implements the canonical Levashina 2014...' framing into the References section to keep the overview focused on what to do.

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Conciseness

Largely lean procedure and tables, but the interspersed research-rationale clauses (e.g. explaining anchoring bias and 'anchored rating scales are the load-bearing mechanism for acceptable inter-rater reliability') restate concepts Claude already knows and could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

The debrief workflow is fully concrete (named halt codes, '>1 spread' thresholds, explicit no-hire/borderline floor rules), but stages 1-4 and 6 are actionable only by routing to references, so the body alone leaves minor gaps for artifact authoring.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 7-step debrief is a clearly sequenced process with explicit validation checkpoints (independent pre-submission required, INCOMPLETE_PANEL_SUBMISSION halt, spread flagging, bias flags, MISSING_RUBRIC halt) and feedback loops (re-score against anchor).

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Clear overview with a stage table and 'The chain, end to end' section pointing one level deep to five real, well-signaled reference files (jd-author, interview-questions, rubric, calibration, onboarding), all confirmed present in ./references/; only the debrief it owns is inline.

5 / 5

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Description

96%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, information-dense description that explicitly states capabilities, trigger conditions, and role synonyms in third person. The only soft spot is conceptual adjacency to skill-matrix-author, which the body (not the description) disambiguates.

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Specificity

Lists the full chain of concrete artifacts ('job description through interview question bank, competency-anchored scoring rubric, interviewer calibration guide, and post-interview panel debrief, to the 30-60-90 day onboarding plan') — comprehensive, specific actions rather than vague language.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (the end-to-end structured-hiring chain and every artifact it produces) and when ('Use when opening a QA requisition, authoring any artifact of the hiring loop ... or running the panel debrief').

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural hiring-loop terms a manager/recruiter would say plus role synonyms ('QA / SDET / automation / test-lead / quality-manager', 'QA requisition', 'panel debrief', 'onboarding plan', 'hire / no-hire decision').

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear QA-hiring niche with distinct triggers, but it shares competency vocabulary with the sibling skill-matrix-author skill, leaving minor overlap risk with a closely related skill.

4 / 5

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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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