skills-eval

name	skills-eval
description	Evaluate and improve Claude skill quality through auditing. Use when reviewing skill quality, preparing skills for production, or auditing existing skills. Do not use when creating new skills (use modular-skills) or writing prose (use writing-clearly-and-concisely). Use this skill before shipping any skill to production.
category	skill-management
tags	["evaluation","improvement","skills","optimization","quality-assurance","tool-use","performance-metrics"]
dependencies	["modular-skills","performance-optimization"]
tools	["skills-auditor","improvement-suggester","compliance-checker","tool-performance-analyzer","token-usage-tracker"]
provides	{"infrastructure":["evaluation-framework","quality-assurance","improvement-planning"],"patterns":["skill-analysis","token-optimization","modular-design"],"sdk_features":["agent-sdk-compatibility","advanced-metrics","dynamic-discovery"]}
estimated_tokens	1800
usage_patterns	["skill-audit","quality-assessment","improvement-planning","skills-inventory","tool-performance-evaluation","dynamic-discovery-optimization","advanced-tool-use-analysis","programmatic-calling-efficiency","context-preservation-quality","token-efficiency-optimization","modular-architecture-validation","integration-testing","compliance-reporting","performance-benchmarking"]
complexity	advanced
evaluation_criteria	{"structure_compliance":25,"metadata_quality":20,"token_efficiency":25,"tool_integration":20,"claude_sdk_compliance":10}
modules	["modules/advanced-tool-use-analysis.md","modules/authoring-checklist.md","modules/evaluation-criteria.md","modules/evaluation-framework.md","modules/evaluation-workflows.md","modules/integration-testing.md","modules/integration.md","modules/multi-metric-evaluation-methodology.md","modules/performance-benchmarking.md","modules/pressure-testing.md","modules/quality-metrics.md","modules/skill-authoring-best-practices.md","modules/trigger-isolation-analysis.md","modules/troubleshooting.md"]

Skills Evaluation and Improvement

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Quick Start
3. Evaluation Workflow
4. Evaluation and Optimization
5. Resources

Overview

This framework audits Claude skills against quality standards to improve performance and reduce token consumption. Automated tools analyze skill structure, measure context usage, and identify specific technical improvements. Run verification commands after each audit to confirm fixes work correctly.

The skills-auditor provides structural analysis, while the improvement-suggester ranks fixes by impact. Compliance is verified through the compliance-checker. Runtime efficiency is monitored by tool-performance-analyzer and token-usage-tracker.

Quick Start

Basic Audit

Run a full audit of all skills or target a specific file to identify structural issues.

# Audit all skills
make audit-all

# Audit specific skill
make audit-skill TARGET=path/to/skill/SKILL.md

Analysis and Optimization

Use skill_analyzer.py for complexity checks and token_estimator.py to verify the context budget.

make analyze-skill TARGET=path/to/skill/SKILL.md
make estimate-tokens TARGET=path/to/skill/SKILL.md

Improvements

Generate a prioritized plan and verify standards compliance using improvement_suggester.py and compliance_checker.py.

make improve-skill TARGET=path/to/skill/SKILL.md
make check-compliance TARGET=path/to/skill/SKILL.md

Evaluation Workflow

Start with make audit-all to inventory skills and identify high-priority targets. For each skill requiring attention, run analysis with analyze-skill to map complexity. Generate an improvement plan, apply fixes, and run check-compliance to verify the skill meets project standards. Finalize by checking the token budget for efficiency.

Evaluation and Optimization

Quality assessments use the skills-auditor and improvement-suggester to generate detailed reports. Performance analysis focuses on token efficiency through the and tool performance via . For standards compliance, the automates common fixes for structural issues.