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Hey 👋 @Davidcreador I ran your skills through `tessl skill review` at work and found some targeted improvements. Here's the full before/after:  | Skill | Before | After | Change | |-------|--------|-------|--------| | list | 73% | 96% | +23% | | status | 73% | 96% | +23% | | save | 82% | 87% | +5% | | load | 90% | 90% | — (already great, left untouched) | <details> <summary>Changes made</summary> **list** & **status** — Added explicit "Use when..." clauses with natural trigger keywords (e.g. "show branches", "check memory status", "view what's stored"). These were the main gaps flagged by the evaluator — without a "Use when" clause, Claude has weaker signal for when to select the skill. **save** — Expanded trigger terms ("persist settings", "store context", "snapshot branch state") and added brief error handling guidance for when CLAUDE.md doesn't exist. Also added confirmation of what was saved in the result output. **load** — Already scoring 90% with solid "Use when" guidance and clean content. Left unchanged. </details> 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. Want to self-improve your skills? Just point your agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) at [this Tessl guide](https://docs.tessl.io/evaluate/optimize-a-skill-using-best-practices) and ask it to optimize your skill. Ping me - [@yogesh-tessl](https://github.com/yogesh-tessl) - if you hit any snags. Thanks in advance 🙏
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Hey 👋 @Davidcreador
Branch-specific CLAUDE.md files that auto-swap on checkout. That's solving a pain point every multi-branch Claude Code user hits but nobody else has packaged this cleanly. Breaking it into save/load/list/status skills with both plugin and CLI modes shows you've thought about the full UX surface. Wanted to suggest a few improvements to the SKILL.md.
I ran your skills through
tessl skill reviewat work and found some targeted improvements. Here's the full before/after:Changes made
list & status - Added explicit "Use when..." clauses with natural trigger keywords (e.g. "show branches", "check memory status", "view what's stored"). These were the main gaps flagged by the evaluator, without a "Use when" clause, Claude has weaker signal for when to select the skill.
save - Expanded trigger terms ("persist settings", "store context", "snapshot branch state") and added brief error handling guidance for when CLAUDE.md doesn't exist. Also added confirmation of what was saved in the result output.
load - Already scoring 90% with solid "Use when" guidance and clean content. Left unchanged.
Honest disclosure. I work at https://github.com/tesslio where we build tooling around skills like these. Not a pitch - just saw room for improvement and wanted to contribute.
I also added a lightweight GitHub Action that auto-reviews any skill.md changed in a PR (includes min permissions, uses a pinned action version, only posts a review comment).
This means that it gives you and your contributors an instant quality signal before you have to review yourself (no signup, no tokens needed).
Want to self-improve your skills? Just point your agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) at this Tessl guide (https://docs.tessl.io/evaluate/optimize-a-skill-using-best-practices) and ask it to optimize your skill. Ping me - @yogesh-tessl (https://github.com/yogesh-tessl) - if you hit any snags.
Thanks in advance 🙏