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Evaluating Heuristics

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fulanoxpr·vlatest·other

This skill assesses if proposed heuristics align with best practices and desired outcomes, improving decision-making accuracy.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add foundation-for-puerto-rico/fpr-marketplace --skill evaluating-heuristics -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

fulanoxpr

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Live repository

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

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  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

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    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned fulanoxpr/fpr-marketplace at db4bf57c92.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

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db4bf57c92
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plugins/fpr-editorial-agent/skills/evaluating-heuristics/SKILL.md
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3 files, 407 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill allows an AI agent to evaluate the effectiveness of heuristics. It can analyze a set of rules or guidelines and determine how well they achieve a specific goal, providing insights into their strengths and weaknesses. The skill assesses heuristic performance based on predefined criteria and offers suggestions for improvement. Ultimately, this helps refine decision-making processes within the agent.

When to use it

  • Optimizing Search Algorithms: Evaluate heuristics used in pathfinding or search problems to improve efficiency.
  • Refining Rule-Based Systems: Assess the effectiveness of rules governing an AI's behavior and identify areas for adjustment.
  • Improving Decision-Making: Analyze heuristics guiding choices made by the agent, leading to more optimal outcomes.
  • Debugging Agent Behavior: Pinpoint why an agent is making suboptimal decisions by evaluating the underlying heuristics.

Key capabilities

  • Heuristic performance assessment
  • Identification of heuristic strengths and weaknesses
  • Suggestion generation for heuristic improvement
  • Analysis based on predefined criteria

Example prompts

  • "Evaluate the following heuristic for sorting files: 'Prioritize files modified recently.'"
  • "Analyze this set of rules for prioritizing customer support tickets and suggest improvements."
  • "How effective is the heuristic 'Always choose the option with the fewest steps' in a maze-solving scenario?"

Tips & gotchas

The quality of the evaluation depends on clearly defined criteria. Providing specific goals or desired outcomes will improve the accuracy and usefulness of the skill’s analysis.