skill-judge

Topics in the source

• Skill Judge
• Core Philosophy
• What is a Skill?
• The Core Formula
• Tool vs Skill
• Three Types of Knowledge in Skills
• Evaluation Dimensions (120 points total)
• D1: Knowledge Delta (20 points) — THE CORE DIMENSION

Evaluate Agent Skills against official specifications and patterns derived from 17+ official examples. -- A Skill is NOT a tutorial. A Skill is a knowledge externalization mechanism. Traditional AI knowledge is locked in model parameters. To teach new capabilities: Skills change this: This is the paradigm shift from "training AI" to "educating AI" — like a hot-swappable LoRA adapter that requires no training. You edit a Markdown file in natural language, and the model's behavior changes. Good Skill = Expert-only Knowledge − What Claude Already Knows A Skill's value is measured by its knowledge delta — the gap between what it provides and what the model already knows. Expert-only knowledge: Decision trees, trade-offs, edge cases, anti-patterns, domain-specific thinking frameworks — things that take years of experience to accumulate What Claude already knows: Basic concepts, standard library usage, common programming patterns, general best practices When a Skill explains "what is PDF" or "how to write a for-loop", it's compressing knowledge Claude already has. This is token waste — context window is a public resource shared with system prompts, conversation history, other Skills, and

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