Content
81%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 well-engineered procedural skill: the workflow is fully sequenced with real validation guards, the guidance is copy-paste concrete, and edge conditions (empty scope, unreadable evidence, undeterminable story type) each have an explicit home in the verdict vocabulary. The main cost is token weight — several multi-line design-rationale essays and the sheer length of inline per-type rules could be trimmed or moved to a reference file.
Suggestions
Cut the meta-commentary blockquotes ("Why this needed saying", "This is a recurring shape: ... what does this emit when the set is empty?") — they argue for the skill's design to a reader, not to the executor running it.
Move the per-story-type gate resolution rules (qa.level / testing.strict matrix) and the full report template into a bundled reference file, keeping SKILL.md as the sequenced overview.
Compress the verdict-ranking paragraph in Section 6 into a one-line ordering rule (e.g. "MISSING > INCOMPLETE > NOT ASSESSED > ADEQUATE > WAIVED") plus a single sentence on why, rather than the current multi-paragraph justification.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient procedural instruction, but it carries several clearly unnecessary explanation blocks: the Section 2 blockquote essay ("This is a recurring shape: the sophisticated inner rule present, the outer boundary unguarded... what does this emit when the set is empty?") and Section 6's "Why this needed saying" rationale passages are skill-design commentary, not execution guidance. This matches anchor 3 (mostly efficient, some unnecessary explanation that could be tightened) — above anchor 2 because the padding is confined to a few blockquotes rather than pervasive, below anchor 4 because those passages run to tens of lines. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The guidance is copy-paste ready throughout: exact Grep invocations with pattern, glob, output_mode and -A flags (Section 2); concrete per-engine test roots (`tests/unit/[system]/`, `Assets/Tests/EditMode/`, `Source/<Module>/Private/Tests/`); numeric thresholds ("3+ assertions per test function → normal"); per-engine naming patterns; and a complete fill-in report template. This matches anchor 5 (fully executable, specific examples covering the common cases) — nothing is pseudocode or hand-waved. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The seven sections form a clear, sequenced workflow with explicit checkpoints and error-recovery routing: the zero-stories guard stops execution and routes to the correct next skill; the stated-evidence-path-first rule with a documented fallback search; full-read fallback when a Test Evidence section is missing or ambiguous; and the ask-before-write confirmation for the optional report. This matches anchor 5 (clear sequence, explicit validation steps, feedback loops); the read-only nature of the skill means no destructive-operation cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, and the body's references (`.claude/docs/coding-standards.md`, `.claude/rules/test-standards.md`, `.claude/docs/directory-structure.md`, `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md`) are one level deep and clearly signaled at the point of use, matching anchor 4 (good structure, references mostly clear, minor organization gaps). It is not anchor 5 because at ~350 lines the SKILL.md is a monolith — the detailed per-story-type gate logic and the full report template are candidates for a bundled reference file — though the references that do exist are external project docs rather than nested skill files, so it is comfortably above anchor 3. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |