SEO Audit Skill Review

Skill Quality Review: seo-audit

Review Time: 2026-04-19 18:30:00 Review Mode: Line-by-line audit

Overall Score

Rating scale:

• 90-100: Excellent - Ready to ship
• 70-89: Good - Minor improvements needed
• 50-69: Fair - Significant edits required
• <50: Poor - Major rewrite required

What This Skill Does Well

1. [Effectiveness] Trigger coverage is broad and includes vague SEO intents. - Evidence: line 3.
2. [Effectiveness] It clearly documents schema detection blind spots and gives practical alternatives. - Evidence: lines 38-49.
3. [Effectiveness] The priority order is explicit and execution-friendly. - Evidence: lines 51-56.
4. [Effectiveness] The report output structure is delivery-ready. - Evidence: lines 337-364.

Where This Skill Falls Short

1. [Standards] version is nested under metadata.version, not top-level. - Evidence: lines 4-5, Impact: strict validators may fail.
2. [Effectiveness] Missing Don't use when boundaries. - Evidence: whole document, Impact: overlap with adjacent SEO skills.
3. [Effectiveness] Missing a verification section. - Evidence: whole document, Impact: weak self-check after execution.
4. [Conciseness] List-heavy sections raise token cost. - Evidence: lines 60-334, Impact: less efficient in short sessions.

Reusable Insights From This Skill

1. Explicitly documenting tool blind spots reduces false findings. - Application: technical audit skills.
2. Combining priority order with output template improves execution reliability. - Application: process-oriented analysis skills.
3. Including vague trigger phrases improves recall quality. - Application: conversational support skills.

Detailed Issue List

[High] Standards - Frontmatter version field is non-standard

• Location: lines 4-5
• Description: required version is not top-level.
• Recommendation: add top-level version: 1.1.0.

[Medium] Effectiveness - Missing boundary rules

• Location: whole document
• Description: no non-applicable scope definition.
• Recommendation: add a Don't use when section and handoff rules to programmatic-seo, schema-markup, and ai-seo.

[Medium] Effectiveness - Missing validation loop

• Location: whole document
• Description: no completion criteria for quality control.
• Recommendation: require priority, evidence source, expected impact, and review method in output validation.

[Low] Conciseness - Dense checklist blocks

• Location: lines 60-334
• Description: long stacked lists can be modularized.
• Recommendation: move deeper details to references/.

Improvement Recommendations (Priority Ordered)

1. [Must] Fix top-level version.
2. [Should] Add boundary and validation sections.
3. [Optional] Split long checklist sections for lower token usage.

Dimension Notes

Standards 14/20

• Name format: pass
• Description quality: pass
• Frontmatter separator: pass
• Required fields: fail (missing top-level version)
• Recommended fields: partial

Effectiveness 34/40

• Trigger design: strong
• Workflow clarity: strong
• Output structure: strong
• Boundaries and validation: moderate

Safety 28/30

• No dangerous commands or malicious intent detected
• Includes anti-false-positive note for schema checks

Conciseness 8/10

• High practical density
• Can still benefit from layered references