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.
The body delivers an unusually actionable decision procedure: concrete steps, two fill-in templates, an artifact ladder, and a fully worked example, with clear navigation and only one-level-deep cross-references. Its main cost is repetition of the same load-bearing/keep-it caveat across sections, which inflates token usage without adding guidance.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated 'keep the feature when the loss is load-bearing' caveat (currently in the intro, Procedure, and both template sections) into one authoritative statement and reference it elsewhere.
Move the worked social-sign-in example and possibly the Domain Manifestations into a references/ file, keeping SKILL.md as a tighter overview with clearly signaled links.
Add an explicit final checkpoint that re-evaluates remaining candidates after a keep/refuse decision, closing the workflow-clarity gap.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and mostly free of filler, but the core caution ('keep it when the loss is load-bearing', 'this is not a quota') is restated four or more times across the opening, Procedure, and template sections. It could be tightened to one canonical statement, which places it at 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' rather than merely minor trimming. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully concrete: a 6-step procedure, a fill-in Decision Template, a UI Refactor Template, an artifact ladder with use conditions, and a complete worked social-sign-in example. A practitioner can apply the templates directly, covering the common case. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Procedure is clearly sequenced with an explicit conditional checkpoint (step 6: 'If the loss is load-bearing, keep the feature... Otherwise, refuse...') and a required output ('write that refusal into the spec'). It falls short of the top anchor only in lacking a feedback loop that revisits remaining candidates after a decision. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A flat, well-sectioned single file whose outbound links (the rethink skill and its clean-breaks reference, plus the docs article) are one level deep and clearly signaled in 'Compose With'. It is not top-tier because all ~210 lines are inline; the worked example and domain manifestations could plausibly live in reference files. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |