Content
75%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.
Highly actionable content with an excellent workflow: exact schemas, a fully specified report shape, real checkpoints, and disciplined one-level-deep references to the underlying sources. The main weakness is redundancy — the same non-goals and the equal-prominence-for-negative-findings principle are each stated multiple times, inflating token cost.
Suggestions
Consolidate the redundancy between the intro ('This is a synthesis skill... does not run new experiments') and 'What this does NOT do' into a single statement, and state the 'rejected findings get equal prominence' principle once instead of three times.
Trim step 2's inline numeric detail (e.g. the 0.333→0.167 and 94.4% specifics) to experiment names plus questions, since the ledger step already mandates pulling exact numbers from source files — this also reduces staleness risk when results files change.
Add one line of local guidance for palette-validator failures (e.g. 'fix the chart per dataviz's validator output and re-run before finalizing') so the verification loop does not depend entirely on the dataviz skill.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient, but the same points are argued repeatedly: the intro's 'It does not run new experiments, dispatch sub-agents, or generate any new data' is restated nearly verbatim in 'What this does NOT do', and the 'rejected findings get equal prominence' principle is explained three separate times ('limitations stated as prominently as wins', 'a rejected/negative finding is not a lesser row', 'It does not average away or soften a rejected finding'). These could be tightened without losing content. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill this is copy-paste-level specific: an exact ledger schema '{name, date, question asked, headline metric before → after, verdict (adopted / rejected / promising-not-proven / structural finding), source file}', a section-by-section report shape with sentence/row budgets, named source file paths, and a concrete figure list anchored to real numbers ('0.333 was later corrected to the true 0.167', '~16.7% vs. 94.4%'). Flexibility ('adjust to whatever the ledger actually supports') is explicitly justified. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear sequence (load dataviz/artifact-design → read the full source inventory → build the ledger → group into narrative arc → write the report → figures → publish) with real checkpoints: 'Do not proceed to writing charts or prose from memory', 'run the palette validator before finalizing', and a recovery path for missing data ('say so in the figure's caption rather than interpolate invented points'). Not 5 because what to do when the palette validator fails is deferred entirely to the dataviz skill with no local guidance. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, and the body's external references (eval DESIGN.md/results files, four sibling companion skills) are one level deep, clearly signaled as links, and the body explicitly refuses to restate them ('link to the source file for anyone who wants the proof'). Minor gap: step 2's per-experiment narrative descriptions inline substantial numeric detail that duplicates what the mandated ledger step already pulls from the source files. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |