Verification

On October 7, 2026, Sam’s Gen Writing passed the structural and manifest checks below. Network-dependent installation, the docs build, and the docs-spec gate could not run in the publishing environment. No behavioral evaluation has been run, so the skill’s status is awaiting-evals.

Results

Surface	Check	Result
Skill structure	Official quick_validate.py against skills/sams-gen-writing	Passed: Skill is valid!
Agent metadata	YAML parse of agents/openai.yaml	Passed
Smoke scenarios	JSON parse of evals/evals.json	Passed; five scenarios
Distribution manifests	JSON parsing plus claude plugin validate . --strict	Passed
Docs config	node --check astro.config.mjs and internal-link scan of src/content/docs	Passed
Docs scripts	node --test src/scripts/*.test.mjs	Passed: 3 tests
Portable install	Skills CLI install into a clean target	Not run: the npm registry was unreachable
Docs build	bun run build	Not run: dependencies could not be downloaded
Docs-spec gate	Canonical docs-spec/scripts/check.sh	Unavailable: the checker is not installed in the publishing environment
Forward use	Fresh-context runs of the smoke scenarios	Not run

Source review

The formal policy reference was read directly from Search Central on October 7, 2026. The podcast reference was built from Google’s published Search Off the Record transcripts, with each finding checked against its speaker label and linked to the public episode page. The February 2023 and March 2024 Search Central blog posts could not be retrieved, so the skill cites them by title and date and relies on the current documentation for requirements.

To finish verification

1. Run bun run build and the docs-spec gate in apps/docs, then confirm the new route appears in dist/llms-full.txt.
2. Install the skill with the Skills CLI into a clean target and compare it with skills/sams-gen-writing.
3. Run the five smoke scenarios in fresh conversations and record the model, date, web access, and which expectations passed.