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improve consensus skill description + inline workflow#23

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@fernandezbaptiste fernandezbaptiste commented Apr 2, 2026

hey @cofin, thanks for building flow. really like the "measure twice, code once" philosophy + the breadth of 55 technology-specific skills. kudos for the repo! just starred it.

ran your consensus skill through some evals and noticed a few things that were pretty quick to improve (moving from ~69% to ~94% agent performance):

  • expanded description with concrete outputs (confidence level, pro/con analysis, risk assessment) + explicit exclusions so agents know when not to use it.
  • inlined the stance rotation steps + synthesis framework directly instead of fully deferring to references.
  • added a validation checkpoint with escalation feedback loop + a concrete REST-to-GraphQL migration example.

these were easy changes to bring the skill in line with what performs well against Anthropic's best practices. honest disclosure, I work at tessl.io where we build tooling around this. not a pitch, just fixes that were straightforward to make.

you've got 55 skills, if you want to do it yourself, spin up Claude Code and run tessl skill review. alternatively, let me know if you'd like an automatic review in your repo via GitHub Actions. it doesn't require signup, and this means you and your contributors get an instant quality signal before you have to review yourself.

- expand description with concrete outputs + trigger terms
- inline stance rotation steps + synthesis framework
- add validation checkpoint + concrete example
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cofin commented Apr 3, 2026

@fernandezbaptiste thanks for the review and for checking out the skills! This info helps, and I'll check out tessl when I have some time.

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Systematically improve all skills based on the consensus skill improvements
from PR #23 (69% → 94% agent performance). Changes across three tiers:

Full treatment (25 skills): description enrichment with output shape +
explicit exclusions, inlined workflow steps from references, <guardrails>
constraints, <validation> checkpoints, concrete <example> sections.
Covers all persona skills (devils-advocate, architecture-critic,
performance-analyst, security-auditor), process skills (challenge,
deepthink, tracer, docgen), and technology skills that fully delegated
to references.

Medium treatment (13 skills): description enrichment, semantic tags,
minor structural improvements. Light treatment (17 skills): semantic
tags on existing well-structured content.

Flow skill: added validation checkpoints for TDD workflow and phase
completion protocol, semantic tags on workflow sections, description
exclusions.

Introduces a 4-tag semantic XML standard (<workflow>, <guardrails>,
<validation>, <example>) to help agents distinguish instructions from
context. Moved markdownlint config to project root with allowed
elements for the new tags. Fixed all 106 markdownlint issues across
292 files.
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glad the improvements were helpful, @cofin! when you get a chance to look at tessl, opened #29 with a couple of lightweight CI workflows that auto-score skill.md changes on PRs - no signup needed for the review mode.

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