Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured, highly actionable skill body with clear sequencing, a validation checkpoint, and proper progressive disclosure via the cli-reference bundle file. The only weakness is mild redundancy in the Overview, which restates Semgrep basics already present in the description.
Suggestions
Trim the Overview prose — keep only the doc-citation link anchors and the scan-vs-ci exit-code distinction, since the description already establishes what Semgrep is.
Condense the scan-vs-ci blockquote to one line; the same point reappears in the Anti-patterns table ('semgrep scan in CI ... doesn't return failing exit code').
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly lean and command-dense, but the Overview paragraph restates what Semgrep is ('fast pattern-based static analyzer covering 30+ languages with a registry of community + paid rulesets') — territory the description already covers and Claude already knows — so it could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Copy-paste-ready guidance throughout: brew/pipx/uv/docker install, `semgrep scan --config`, a complete YAML rule, a GitHub Actions workflow, and a real `nosemgrep` justification template. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1–6 are clearly sequenced with an explicit validation checkpoint (`semgrep validate --config .semgrep.yml`) and a mandatory triage template plus a quarterly audit cadence acting as a feedback loop. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body acts as a spine, offloading exhaustive output-format, performance, and exit-code tables to a real, one-level-deep references/cli-reference.md that is clearly signaled in Step 6. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |