Assess

Assess is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by yonatangross in orchestkit.

225 stars24 forkson yonatangross/orchestkitAdded 2026/09/03Repository updated 2026/09/02

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Install Assess

Copy Assess into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit/tree/main/src/skills/assess ~/.claude/skills/assess

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/skills/assess/SKILL.md in yonatangross/orchestkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/assess
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1478 skills

What Assess does

Assess scores code, designs, or architectures across correctness, maintainability, security, performance, testability, and simplicity. It produces pros/cons analysis, compares against project conventions, and suggests actionable improvements.

Assess is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Assess comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agents, ai-agents, ai-development and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Assess

Comprehensive assessment skill for answering "is this good?" with structured evaluation, scoring, and actionable recommendations.

🎯 Quick Start

/ork:assess backend/app/services/auth.py
/ork:assess our caching strategy
/ork:assess --model=opus the current database schema
/ork:assess frontend/src/components/Dashboard

Effort levels (CC 2.1.111+ adds `xhigh`)

Effort	Behavior
`low` / `medium`	Subset of dimensions, faster turnaround
`high` (default)	All six dimensions with pros/cons
`xhigh`	All six dimensions + one additional assessor pass focused on uncertainty/caveats; emits `confidence` per dimension

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Assess provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/model
/effort

Frequently asked about Assess

What else does yonatangross publish alongside Assess?
Assess is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from yonatangross/orchestkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI UI Generation, API Design and Accessibility. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Assess does, and is maintained by yonatangross in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the yonatangross/orchestkit page.
How does Assess compare to other Quality skills?
Assess ranks #1379 by stars among the 1478 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Assess against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.