Content
73%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.
An unusually precise procedural skill: every phase has concrete thresholds, exact output formats, and enumerated edge cases, and the sequencing with fallbacks is exemplary. Its weaknesses are presentation-level — redundant read-only declarations, a padded bug-history blockquote, and a broken sentence fragment — that add tokens without adding guidance.
Suggestions
Cut the '\*{0,2} wrappers' bug-history blockquote to one line (e.g. 'The \*{0,2} wrappers match bold/emphasis variants emitted by /create-stories — keep them') to reclaim ~6 lines.
Merge the 'Collaborative Protocol' section into the intro's read-only paragraph, which already states the same three constraints, removing the duplicated 'at most one recommendation' line.
Repair the fragmented story_granularity sentence ('**`story_granularity`** — it sets the grain...'), which currently begins mid-thought with no subject or context.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with operational specifics and never explains concepts Claude already knows, but it carries clear trimming candidates: the 7-line bug-history blockquote ("The \*{0,2} wrappers are why this works at all..."), the read-only rule stated twice (intro and 'Collaborative Protocol', including a duplicated 'at most one recommendation' line), and a broken fragment sentence at the story_granularity paragraph. This fits anchor 3 ('mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened') better than 4, where only minor instances would remain. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is highly concrete: a copy-paste Grep invocation with full arguments, exact thresholds (10/25-point burndown bands, 40% time remaining, 4-day staleness), a fill-in output template with table columns, and verbatim escalation flag text. Minor gaps keep it at anchor 4 rather than 5: sprint file discovery ends in 'or similar', and the optional implementation-evidence grep ('grep the code root for a directory or file name that matches the story's system slug') is loosely specified. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six numbered phases are unambiguously sequenced with explicit decision points: an authoritative-yaml-first path with a markdown-scanning fallback, graceful degradation when dates are missing, stale-story escalation rules applied before verdicts, and edge cases exhaustively enumerated (no sprint dir per workflow mode, no stories at all, all stories blocked). The skill is read-only, so the destructive/batch validation cap does not apply, and its existence checks and fallbacks serve as validation checkpoints matching anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, so structure is judged on the single SKILL.md alone: numbered sections with clear headers, a mandatory output template isolated in its own section, and escalation rules gathered in one place make navigation easy. It stays at anchor 4 rather than 5 because 250+ lines of branch detail (the workflow-minimal sub-procedure, stale-detection specifics, and the Collaborative Protocol section) live inline in one file where a fast situational-awareness skill might split reference material out. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |