Content
81%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 orchestration skill body: fully executable commands, an explicitly sequenced workflow with validation checkpoints and bounded retry loops appropriate to batch operations, and real one-level-deep reference files for the preflight procedure and worker instructions. Its weaknesses are token efficiency (rationale prose, worked examples, redundancy across worktree steps) and a body length that keeps it from being a lean overview over its references.
Suggestions
Trim rationale prose and the Step 6 worked example (~10 lines): keep the rules ('prune stale metadata', 'do not retry more than once') and drop the justifications and illustrative walkthrough — the deterministic procedure is already unambiguous.
Move the Step 4a collision-resolution case analysis (path/branch collision, already-provisioned reuse, -<n> incrementing) into a references/worktree-provisioning.md, keeping only the create command, the ready/deferred split, and the empty-slug fallback inline in SKILL.md.
Compress the Step 6.5 sample findings table to one example row (or move it into the aggregation reference) and state the column schema in a single line, cutting roughly half of that step's token cost.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and mostly efficient, but includes rationale prose that could be trimmed ('the single most common cause of transient worktree add failures', 'avoids racing with live workers on .git/worktrees/ metadata and keeps the orchestrator's output easy to read') and a ~10-line worked example, plus some redundancy between Step 4a/4b and the Step 6 retry procedure. Mostly efficient with some unnecessary explanation, matching anchor 3 rather than 4. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable guidance throughout: copy-paste-ready commands ('git -C "$REPO" worktree add "$REPO/.claude/worktrees/arn-batch-<slug>" -b "arn-batch/<slug>"', 'git -C "$REPO" worktree prune'), exact AskUserQuestion prompts with numbered options, exact status strings ('failed -- worktree provisioning (retry exhausted)'), and fully specified Agent spawn parameters (no isolation, run_in_background: true, 5-worker cap). Covers the common cases per anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A batch operation with a clearly sequenced Steps 0-7 workflow, explicit validation checkpoints (pre-flight validation, verifying each worktree appears in 'git worktree list', per-feature exit-code/stderr capture, ready/deferred split), and error-recovery feedback loops (prune -> retry once -> cap, spawn-error deferral, findings aggregation with zero-fallback for missing lines). Matches anchor 5 including the batch-operation feedback-loop requirement. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Both referenced bundle files exist (references/preflight-validation.md, references/worker-instructions.md), are one level deep, and are clearly signaled with full ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} paths; the body is well-sectioned with headers. Not a 5 because the 246-line body inlines procedural detail that could live in a reference (Step 4a collision case analysis, the Step 6 worked example, Step 6.5 findings-table example), making it a full workflow spec rather than a lean overview. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |