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92%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-engineered instruction skill: concrete commands with placeholders explained, exact naming and documentation formats, a workflow with confirmation gates, validation with rerun loops, and a checklist, while the heavy artifacts live in one-level-deep reference files that are all present. The only notable weakness is moderate redundancy — key rules (notably the activity-must-be-a-use-case rule) are repeated across several sections and sentences run long.
Suggestions
State the 'no activity without a use case' rule once in Modeling rules and let Missing use cases, the Workflow, and the Checklist reference it, instead of restating it in each place.
Tighten multi-clause sentences (e.g. the Diagram layout and Update sections) by splitting them into short imperative bullets, which would trim tokens without losing the rules.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Nearly every sentence carries a project-specific rule (naming conventions, lane assignment, gateway naming, update semantics) rather than generic BPMN explanation Claude already knows, matching the 'efficient; minor instances of over-explanation' anchor. It falls short of 5 because sentences are long and the no-activity-without-use-case rule is restated in four places (Modeling rules, Missing use cases, Workflow step 3, and the Checklist/DO NOT lists), which could be tightened. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable for an instruction skill: copy-paste commands (`python3 <skill directory>/scripts/bpmn_layout.py docs/processes/BP-001-book-loan.bpmn`, `--check`, the glob `**/*test-case/scripts/bpmn_paths.py`), concrete naming examples (`Book Loan` → `BP-001-book-loan.bpmn`), example element ids (`StartEvent_BookWanted`, `Flow_CopyAvailable_Yes`), and exact documentation line formats. This matches the top anchor rather than 4, where minor gaps in concrete detail would remain. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step Workflow has an explicit user-confirmation gate before writing (step 2), a validation command with a feedback loop ('Fix and rerun until it does', step 5), a Completeness Checklist (step 6), and stop conditions in Missing use cases. Clear sequence, explicit checkpoints, error-recovery loops, and a checklist match the top anchor; validation of the batch write operation is present, so no cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body holds the rules and points to one-level-deep bundle files that all exist — [references/process.bpmn.md](references/process.bpmn.md) and [references/example.bpmn.md](references/example.bpmn.md) introduced in a Template section, and [scripts/bpmn_layout.py](scripts/bpmn_layout.py) in Diagram layout. The bulk material (full template, complete example, layout tool) is appropriately split out with clear signals, matching the top anchor for well-signaled one-level-deep references. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |