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70%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.
The body is an exceptionally actionable and well-gated orchestration pipeline — literal prompts, paths, verdicts, and error-recovery checks cover even edge cases — but it is padded with repeated policy justifications and inlines long meta-explanations that belong in reference files. Consolidating the write-exception and team.size rationale into a single referenced doc would lift both conciseness and progressive disclosure without losing any operational content.
Suggestions
State the bounded write exception once (e.g., in the File Write Protocol section) and reference it from the other two places instead of re-explaining it; cut the repeated justifications ('Do not fix this by asking per subagent…', the 'constraint enforced but never surfaced' rationale stated twice).
Move the team.size/phase-gate scoping essay and the Collaboration-Protocol exception blockquote into a reference file (e.g., references/write-protocol.md) and keep only the operative rules plus a one-line pointer in SKILL.md.
Compress the 'Announce the active set' preamble to its template plus one sentence of rationale — the three-paragraph defense of why the announcement exists can shrink to a single line.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The file is noticeably verbose with several padded sections: the ~30-line team.size/phase-gate meta-explanation restates the same rule three ways ('This active-set scoping applies throughout the pipeline below…'), the bounded write exception is explained at length three separate times (return-contract note, the 'Why this does not violate the Collaboration Protocol' blockquote, and the File Write Protocol section), and philosophical justifications ('a constraint that is enforced but never surfaced is indistinguishable…') are repeated twice. The core pipeline steps are lean, but the redundancy is substantial rather than 'some', placing it at anchor 2 rather than 3. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | The guidance is copy-paste ready and concrete throughout: exact `subagent_type` values, a per-agent write-destination table with literal paths and slug rules, a verbatim return-contract string to end every prompt with, literal verdict strings ('COMPLETE — engine validation NOT ASSESSED ([reason])'), the announce-the-active-set line templates, and the engine-specialist derivation spelled out (Godot→godot-specialist, Unity→unity-specialist, Unreal→unreal-specialist). It is not 4 because there are no material gaps — even edge cases (no engine configured, missing sound bible) have exact output lines to emit. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence is explicit (Phase 0 config → Steps 1–4 → compile → save → summary) with validation checkpoints throughout: AskUserQuestion gates at each transition, BLOCKING labelling for unresolved accessibility gaps that halts Step 3, artifact verification in Error Recovery ('a named artifact that is not on disk is a failed phase, however fluent the response reads'), explicit resume instructions, partial-report requirements, and distinct COMPLETE/BLOCKED verdict formats with skipped-check reporting. This matches the anchor-5 example's validate → fix → retry loop structure. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | There is good in-file structure (headers, a write-destination table) and references to project docs (`.claude/docs/automation-modes.md`, `.claude/docs/error-recovery-protocol.md`) are clearly signaled and one level deep. However, no bundle files exist and everything lives in SKILL.md: the ~15-line Collaboration-Protocol exception essay, the File Write Protocol section, and the long team.size scoping rationale are policy content that clearly belongs in a separate reference file, matching anchor 3 ('content that should be separate is inline'). It is not 4 because these inline policy blocks are substantial, not minor. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |