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92%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.
A well-structured, highly actionable debugging discipline with strong workflow sequencing and validation gates. The only weakness is minor stylistic padding that slightly undercuts token efficiency.
Suggestions
Trim motivational slogans ("Be aggressive. Be creative. Refuse to give up.", "Build the right feedback loop, and the bug is 90% fixed.", "A 2-second deterministic loop is a debugging superpower.") to recover tokens without losing guidance.
The Phase 1 enumerated loop types could be tightened by collapsing closely related variants (e.g., items 8 and 9 both concern differential/bisection approaches) to reduce list length.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Dense and assumes Claude's competence throughout, but a few slogan-like lines ("Be aggressive. Be creative. Refuse to give up.", "the bug is 90% fixed", "a debugging superpower") are emphasis rather than information and could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides ten concrete loop-construction techniques plus specific mechanisms (git bisect run, performance.now(), [DEBUG-a4f2] tag prefix, grep cleanup) and a real referenced script — fully executable guidance for an instruction-oriented skill. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six clearly sequenced phases with explicit validation gates ("Do not proceed to Phase 2 until…"), checklists in Phases 2 and 6, and fail/pass feedback loops in the fix phase. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized with clear section headers; the single external reference (scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh) is one level deep, exists on disk, and is clearly signaled inline in context. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |