Content
88%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 highly actionable, well-sequenced orchestration procedure with explicit validation checkpoints, feedback loops, and thorough error handling. Its weaknesses are minor: some duplicated notes across steps and a monolithic structure where reference material (dispatch contexts, tracker update semantics, error branches) is inlined in SKILL.md.
Suggestions
Consolidate the Layer 1 visual-testing note into Step 4 (or a short shared section) and reference it from Step 5, removing the duplicated explanation in both steps.
Extract the detailed executor/reviewer dispatch context lists and the PROGRESS_TRACKER.json update procedure into a references/ file (e.g. DISPATCH.md or TRACKER-UPDATE.md), keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview with clearly signaled one-level-deep pointers.
Factor the repeated agent-model lookup guidance ('pass the model from .arness/agent-models/code.md ... Dispatch convention for fallback') into a single stated convention instead of repeating it in Steps 4 and 5.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense operational procedure with no padding or explanation of known concepts, but has minor duplication: the Layer 1 / multi-layer visual validation note appears in both Step 4.4 and Step 5.2, and the agent-model dispatch lookup instructions repeat across Steps 4 and 5. This matches the 'minor instances that could be trimmed' anchor rather than the every-token-earns-its-place anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is copy-paste ready for an instruction-only orchestration skill: exact AskUserQuestion prompts with numbered options, the exact project directory layout to verify, the exact one-line status message to emit, exact PROGRESS_TRACKER.json field updates, and branch-specific test-failure handling prompts. The only deferral (the 'Dispatch convention' fallback) is an explicitly signaled reference. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six explicitly sequenced steps with validation checkpoints (task existence, blocked dependencies, missing tracker warning) and explicit feedback loops: needs-fixes verdicts drive resume/fresh-dispatch re-execution with a 2-cycle cap and escalation, and test failures branch into user-facing resolution options. This matches the clear-sequence-with-explicit-validation-and-feedback-loops anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist; the skill is a single well-sectioned ~190-line document with clear headers and clearly signaled cross-references to sibling skills (ensure-config.md, arn-code-save-plan Step 1). However, detailed material that could live in a reference file — executor dispatch context lists, the PROGRESS_TRACKER update procedure, and the multi-branch test-failure handling — is fully inlined, so content is not split as the 5 anchor requires. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |