Content
85%Weight 40%Scale 1-3Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The skill body is a thorough, actionable, well-sequenced conversational workflow with strong progressive disclosure via two reference templates. Its main weakness is verbosity from repeated dispatch boilerplate and a redundant agent-invocation guide that re-covers material already in the steps.
Suggestions
Define the agent-dispatch convention once (e.g. in a short 'Agent dispatch' subsection or a referenced file) and reference it from Steps 2 and 2b instead of repeating the full 'passing the model from .arness/agent-models/spark.md ... see ensure-config.md' boilerplate each time.
Trim or fold the 'Agent Invocation Guide' table into the workflow steps, since most rows restate actions already specified in Steps 2-4; keep only the rows that add new guidance (e.g. the 'Defer technology/implementation questions' rows).
Consolidate the long bullet list of artifact paths in Prerequisites/Step 1 into a single table or a referenced 'artifacts.md' reference file to reduce inline token load.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is largely project-specific procedural guidance Claude does not already know, but it is padded with repetition — the agent-dispatch boilerplate ('Invoke ... via the Task tool, passing the model from .arness/agent-models/spark.md ... see ensure-config.md "Dispatch convention" for fallback') is repeated verbatim several times, and the 'Agent Invocation Guide' table restates content already in the workflow steps. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Highly executable: exact file paths, concrete commands ('gh issue create --title "F-NNN: ..." --label "arness-feature-issue,..."'), copy-paste user-facing prompts in quotes, and specific templates to read make the guidance directly actionable. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 8-step sequence with explicit checkpoints and feedback loops — gap detection/resolution (Step 2b), sizing validation before writing (Step 5), and batch issue-creation gating ('Wait for each batch to complete before starting the next') with retry-on-failure handling. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Detailed material is split into real one-level-deep bundle files (references/feature-entry-template.md and references/feature-backlog-template.md) that are clearly signaled and referenced by path, keeping the SKILL.md body as an overview that points to the templates for field definitions. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |