Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is a well-sequenced, highly actionable read-only orientation workflow with concrete paths, status semantics, and an output template. Its main gaps are mild inferable-purpose padding and the absence of any progressive-disclosure structure despite the file's length.
Suggestions
Trim restated-purpose sentences (e.g. "This tells you what the user just finished..." and "This is the authoritative list...") since the step headings already convey intent.
Consider moving the large Step 7 output template and the Step 2 phase-mapping table into a referenced file (e.g. output-format.md) so the main SKILL.md stays a lean overview, improving progressive disclosure.
Collapse the overlap between Step 3 (session context) and Step 6 (in-progress work), which cover the same active.md signal, to remove redundancy.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly operational directives, but it includes purpose restatements Claude could infer ("This is the authoritative list of all phases...", "This tells you what the user just finished or is stuck on — use it to personalize the output"), placing it at the mostly-efficient-but-could-be-tightened score-2 anchor rather than the lean score-3. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | It gives concrete, executable guidance for an instruction-only skill: specific paths (production/stage.txt, .claude/docs/workflow-catalog.yaml, production/sprint-status.yaml), glob patterns, explicit status field values, and a copy-paste output template with formatting rules, matching the score-3 anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1–9 are clearly sequenced with an explicit check order ("Check in this order"), enumerated special cases, and a Collaborative Protocol; this is a read-only analysis skill so the destructive/batch validation cap does not apply, reaching the score-3 clear-sequence anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist and the entire procedure lives inline in one ~229-line file; sections are well organized, but there is no progressive disclosure (no one-level-deep references, no content split), and the >50-line simple-skill exemption for a score of 3 does not apply. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |