Conciseness

Lean and efficient throughout — no explaining of what commits or git are, every section (Standard, Acceptance checks, heuristics, anti-patterns) earns its place and assumes Claude's competence.

Actionability

Provides a concrete one-sentence commit template, a tabular acceptance checklist, an executable staging workflow with real commands (git diff --staged), and split/combine heuristics with copy-ready anti-pattern examples.

Workflow Clarity

The staging workflow is a clear numbered sequence with explicit checkpoints (re-read staged diff at step 4, run focused verification at step 5) and wave planning includes a claim/re-read honesty feedback loop.

Progressive Disclosure

Well-structured overview with a clearly signaled one-level-deep reference to references/splitting-into-ordered-waves.md (a real file) for the detailed wave procedure, keeping the body focused on the boundary philosophy.

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'make commits reviewable and auditable as self-contained units', 'order multi-file changes into atomic dependency-ordered waves', 'staging changes, reviewing branch history', and judging whether a commit is 'too broad, too tiny, incomplete, or hard to revert' — giving comprehensive coverage.

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (reviewable/auditable standalone commits plus dependency-ordered waves) and when, via a 'Use when...' clause with concrete trigger phrases.

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases users would actually say — 'split this into commits', 'break this up', 'commit strategy', 'splitting work into waves' — covering synonyms and varied phrasings.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (commit boundary and ordering), with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk; the only adjacent skill is git, and the description scopes itself to commit strategy rather than message formatting.