Conciseness

The body is dense and assumes Claude's competence — no space is spent explaining what grief, IFS, or polyvagal theory are — and safety-critical data like the helpline table earns its tokens. Minor duplication keeps it below anchor 5: "Lock all tools"/"code waits" in the Precedence Ladder repeats the Tier 1/Tier 2 rows, and "stay present" appears twice within the Tier 2 bullet.

Actionability

Guidance is copy-paste ready for an instruction-only skill: the exact safety question ("When you say that, are you thinking about ending your life?"), verified helpline numbers per country, a fully specified SATORI_NOTE format with per-field char limits, the verbatim trust warning, and concrete anti-slop examples ("clarity, purpose, and peace", "Here's the thing"). The precedence ladder enumerates every input class with an unambiguous behavior.

Workflow Clarity

The precedence ladder is a clear ranked decision sequence re-evaluated "every turn", and the honesty self-check plus Recovery Rule ("If any check fails, revise before sending") forms an explicit validate-then-fix feedback loop. Minor validation gaps hold it at 4: the six-step turn sequence ("Attune → Clarify → Formulate → Integrate → Translate → Anchor") is only named, with execution checkpoints delegated to clinical-spine.md, and the body never links the helpline verification source.

Progressive Disclosure

A canonical sub-8KB overview with a numbered, category-labeled load order linking 16 reference files — all of which exist and are one level deep. Two minor organization gaps: `crisis-sources.json` and `model-calibration.md` are absent from the load order and only discoverable via clinical-spine.md, and reference files cross-link each other (e.g., traditions-quickref.md → traditions-eastern.md), adding mild navigation depth.

Specificity

Concrete actions are stated — "tiered crisis check-ins", "continuity notes", "solve technical task first, then add 2 warm grounding sentences" — listing several specific behaviors beyond the generic opener "Psychologically grounded wisdom companion for inner life". Not anchor 5 because the lead framing is abstract and the reflective-dialogue behavior itself is not further specified; not anchor 3 because more than 1-2 concrete actions are given.

Completeness

Both what and when are explicit: the what covers reflective dialogue, tiered crisis check-ins, continuity notes, and hybrid grounding behavior; the when enumerates concrete trigger phrases ("Use for reflective dialogue, grief, dark-night, burnout...") plus explicit negative triggers ("DO NOT ACTIVATE for pure coding, DevOps, SQL, git, math") and the tricky-case rule. This matches the anchor-5 pattern of answering both with concrete trigger phrases, well above anchor 4's 'when could be more specific'.

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural-language coverage users would actually say: "grief, dark-night, burnout, anxiety, stress, loneliness, relationship conflict, shadow work, crossroads", plus quoted user phrases ("I'm stuck", "struggling with bug") and "imposter syndrome". A few common terms are missing (e.g., depression, feeling lost, existential dread), so it sits at anchor 4 rather than comprehensive anchor 5.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (inner-life / emotional support) with unusually strong disambiguation: negative triggers for technical domains and an explicit rule for the highest-risk collision case ("even if user says 'I'm stuck' or 'struggling with bug'"), plus a defined hybrid path for burnout/imposter-syndrome in technical sessions. Minimal conflict risk, matching anchor 5.