BC output-style-creator
Create, validate, and diagnose Claude Code output styles — the file that sets Claude's role, tone, and response format for every turn. Use when asked to write, bundle, or force an output style for a plugin, to set keep-coding-instructions or force-for-plugin, when a style is not taking effect or the wrong one applies, or when choosing between an output style, CLAUDE.md, a skill, and an agent for a persistent behavior change.
Create, validate, and diagnose Claude Code output styles — the file that sets Claude's role, tone, and response format for every turn.
As a process C 57/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
How to improve
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 57/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 5 mutating operations with no state check
- 55Failures and branches. 1 branches
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, write) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Steps. 30 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2853 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- medium 14 test cases, all positive: not one "should refuse" or "should ask first"
- low No test case covers injection arriving through data
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- -5TODO / placeholder text left in the skill
- -32 of 3 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 428: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 12 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 30 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (3 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 2)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 83.