feat: improve 3 skill definitions#11299
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Hey @DataDog 👋
I ran your skills through
tessl skill reviewat work and found targeted improvements in your skills. Here's the before/after:These were easy changes to bring the skill's structure and activation in line with what performs well against Anthropic's best practices.
What changed in add-apm-integrations
Removed unknown frontmatter key
contextand convertedallowed-toolsfrom YAML array to omitted (not a recognized key format). Rewrote description with concrete action verbs (scaffolds Gradle module, writes Instrumentation and Decorator classes, creates JUnit 5 tests). Score jumped from 17% to 94% because the frontmatter issues were blocking the LLM judge entirely.What changed in techdebt
Removed unknown frontmatter keys
user-invocable,contextandallowed-toolsarray. Rewrote description with "Use when" clause and concrete capabilities (diffs against merge-base, identifies dead code, over-abstraction, copy-paste logic). All workflow steps preserved.What changed in migrate-junit-source-to-tabletest
Added "Use when" clause to the description with concrete trigger terms. All conversion rules, table formatting rules, and JDK8 constraints preserved.
In addition, I stress-tested your
add-apm-integrationsskill against a few real-world scenarios, and it held up really well. This means that your skill meaningfully improves agent steering and contributes to stronger output quality. Kudos for that!Honest disclosure, I work at @tesslio where we build tooling around skills like these. Not a pitch, just saw room for improvement and wanted to contribute.
If you want to self-improve your skills, or define your own scenarios to pressure test, just ask your agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to evaluate and optimize your skill with Tessl. Ping me @rohan-tessl, if you hit any snags.