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82%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-engineered orchestration body: it routes each phase to the right reference file, fixes exact artifact and config contracts, and gates completion on an explicit check. The main costs are maximal-density sentences that re-read heavily, and lateral cross-references among the 21 reference files that make full protocol runs pull in several hops beyond the body's one-level map.
Suggestions
Split the compound sentences (especially "Done, on the brainstorm path" and the tiering paragraph) into shorter rule statements — the same content in fewer, simpler clauses would reduce re-reading without losing any rule.
Name the rendering reference explicitly (e.g., "references/markdown-rendering.md or references/html-rendering.md per the resolved OUTPUT_FORMAT") instead of "the rendering reference".
Deduplicate the lightweight-tier rules stated in both the Outcome paragraph and the "Lightweight work ends in chat" paragraph, and consider replacing the hard-coded "current year is 2026" with a resolution rule that does not age.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and assumes Claude's competence — it explains no general concepts and every sentence carries a skill-specific rule (e.g., "Resolve `<root>` the first time you compose or read a `<root>/` path, never earlier"). It falls short of anchor 5 because of over-stuffed sentences (the ~70-word "Done, on the brainstorm path" sentence), repetition of the lightweight/tier rules between the Outcome and "Lightweight work ends in chat" paragraphs, and the hard-coded "The current year is 2026" date, which is time-sensitive and could be stated more compactly. Not 3 — there is no padded or unnecessary explanation anywhere. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully concrete: an exact artifact path pattern (`<root>/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-<type>-<topic>-plan.<md|html>`), specific frontmatter keys (`artifact_contract: ce-unified-plan/v1`, `product_contract_source: ce-brainstorm`), executable config-resolution steps including the command `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, and per-phase read-first file assignments. This matches anchor 5's concrete, specific, executable guidance; the minor indirection of "the rendering reference" is resolvable via the stated OUTPUT_FORMAT precedence and output-mode.md. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The phase table gives a clear ordered sequence (0.0 output mode through 4 handoff) with an explicit validation gate — "do not declare it written or enter Phase 4 while any check fails" — plus a stop-and-route classification and a tier tie-break rule ("when the tier is uncertain, take the heavier one"). It stays at anchor 4 rather than 5 because the Ready for Planning Check's actual contents and any fix-and-revalidate feedback loop are deferred to references/plan-write.md rather than stated here, so checkpoints are named but not detailed in the body. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a genuine overview: the Execution Flow table maps each phase to exactly which reference file to read first and what only that file carries, and every referenced file (phase-0.md, dialogue.md, approaches.md, plan-write.md, handoff.md, model-tiers.md, etc.) was verified to exist in references/. Scored against the actual bundle: it is not anchor 5 because reference files cross-reference each other laterally (phase-0.md → visual-probes.md → interaction-rules.md; plan-write.md → brainstorm-sections.md → markdown-rendering.md), creating multi-hop read chains, and one pointer ("the rendering reference") is indirect rather than naming the file. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |