BC learning-in-public-voice
House style for learning-in-public essays — a curious practitioner thinking out loud while learning a hard technical subject (here, ML-driven crop genetics / genomic selection). First-person, concrete-first, honest about the edge of understanding, mechanism over vocabulary. Provides the register, the hook patterns, the anti-slop hard rules, and the rule for reading a per-writer voice-profile.md so the voice stays the writer's own. Use when drafting a vault-style post from evergreen notes, or as the lens an advisory editor critiques against. This skill never imposes voice; it describes defaults and defers to the writer's profile.
House style for learning-in-public essays — a curious practitioner thinking out loud while learning a hard technical subject (here, ML-driven crop genetics /…
As a process C 59/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
How to improve
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- 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: 1. 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 59/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 20 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1590 tokens
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)
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 636: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 7 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 20 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 83.