Conciseness

The body is command-driven and assumes Claude's competence, with only minor redundancy — the opening paragraph restates the frontmatter description and the 'Critical Rules' section repeats protocol rules — so it sits at 'efficient; minor instances that could be trimmed' rather than fully lean.

Actionability

Provides concrete, executable commands across TypeScript, Python, and Go (tsc, vulture, staticcheck, grep, git) with copy-paste-ready snippets, but a few examples rely on template placeholders (symbolName, declaration_file.ts), leaving minor gaps versus fully comprehensive coverage.

Workflow Clarity

Five phases (SCAN → VERIFY → BATCH → EXECUTE → FINAL VERIFICATION) are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints, re-verification before edits, revert-on-build-failure, abort conditions, and a false-positive guard checklist — fully matching the 'explicit validation steps with feedback loops' anchor.

Progressive Disclosure

The single SKILL.md is well-organized with clear section headers and no external bundle files to reference, but at ~190 lines it exceeds the under-50-line simple-skill exception, so it lands at 'good structure; minor organization gaps' rather than 5.

Specificity

Lists several concrete actions ('parallel scanning, reference verification, batch execution, and atomic commits') which would anchor at 4, but the second-person voice ('You are the ORCHESTRATOR — you scan…') triggers the rubric's -1 specificity penalty, bringing it to 3.

Completeness

The 'what' is clearly stated ('Dead code removal via parallel scanning, reference verification, batch execution, and atomic commits') but there is no 'Use when…' trigger clause, so the missing-trigger cap of 3 applies.

Trigger Term Quality

Includes the natural phrase 'dead code removal' but omits common synonyms users would actually say such as 'unused code', 'unreachable code', or 'unused imports', matching the 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations' anchor.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Dead code removal' is a clear, narrow niche with minimal conflict risk; not a 5 because it lacks explicit distinct trigger phrases that fully separate it from general refactoring skills.