whisper-transcribe

I took a look at your whisper-transcribe skill and wanted to share some thoughts.

Links:

• GitHub
• Your skill in the SkillzWave marketplace

The TL;DR

You're at 89/100, solid B-grade territory. This is based on Anthropic's skill best practices rubric. Your strongest area is Spec Compliance (14/15) – you nailed the YAML frontmatter and naming conventions. The weaker spots are Progressive Disclosure (25/30) and Utility (17/20), mostly around how you're organizing information and guiding users through context file creation.

What's Working Well

• Excellent trigger phrases – Your metadata includes file extensions (.mp3, .wav) and descriptive triggers like "speech-to-text" that'll activate the skill appropriately in real workflows.
• Smart reference architecture – You've got whisper-options.md handling the deep CLI details and context-template.md as a practical asset. This layering is solid.
• Real workflow clarity – The 4-step process (find files → transcribe → ground → save) is concrete and actually shows what users will do, not just theory.
• Context grounding is genuinely useful – This isn't another wrapper around Whisper; the markdown context feature solves a real problem (accuracy on technical terms and names).

The Big One: Missing Table of Contents

Your SKILL.md hits 254 lines but has no TOC. For a document that long, users browsing in Claude Code are bouncing around blind. Add this right after the description:

## Contents
- [Purpose](#purpose)
- [When to Use](#when-to-use)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Transcription Workflow](#transcription-workflow)
- [Context Files](#context-files)
- [Model Selection Guide](#model-selection-guide)
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)

This alone gets you +1 point toward PDA and makes the skill way more usable in Claude Code's interface.

Other Things Worth Fixing

1. Trim the installation section – Currently 26 lines; condense to 8-10 lines with platform-specific commands side-by-side. The verbose explanations belong in a reference file, not inline.

2. Guide context file creation – Step 1 says "optionally create one using assets/context-template.md" but doesn't explain what minimum content is needed. Change to: "Create one with at minimum: speaker names and key technical terms. See assets/context-template.md for the full template."

3. Deduplicate the model comparison – You've got the same table in both SKILL.md and references/whisper-options.md. Keep the detailed one in the reference; SKILL.md should just say "See references/whisper-options.md for the full model comparison."

Quick Wins

• Add TOC to SKILL.md (+1 point, biggest bang for buck)
• Consolidate installation section (+1 point)
• Remove duplicate model table (+1 point)
• Clarify context file requirements (+1 point)

These four changes realistically get you to 93/100, A-grade territory.

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