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.
A well-built orchestrator skill: lean, phase-sequenced, host-agnostic, and heavily grounded in concrete paths, commands, and config resolution rules, with every named reference verified to exist. Scores are capped at 4 across dimensions by minor gaps — unspecified temp/cost-line details, checkpoints delegated to references, and second-tier files unreachable without traversing other references.
Suggestions
Name the second-tier reference files (ideation-sections.md, markdown-rendering.md, html-rendering.md, agents/*.md) somewhere in SKILL.md — or add a short phase-to-file map — so every bundle file is discoverable in one hop instead of requiring traversal of other references.
Specify the fallback "CE temp path" concretely, and define the cost line the skill must show before dispatching (what it contains and where it is displayed), rather than leaving both implicit.
Trim the repeated "The read is required" phrasing and merge the Artifact Root paragraph with the embedded ce-docs-root block, which restate the same path-resolution rules.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The 75-line body is dense with operational rules and explains nothing Claude already knows, with all detail correctly pushed to references. Minor redundancy keeps it below fully lean: "The read is required" is repeated for multiple phases, and the Artifact Root paragraph overlaps the embedded ce-docs-root block's resolution rules. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance dominates: exact commands ("git rev-parse --show-toplevel"), exact paths ("/tmp/compound-engineering-<uid>", "<root>/ideation/"), config keys, an 8-hex run-id spec, and a per-phase read order. Minor gaps remain — "a CE temp path" is never specified, and the cost line the skill must show has no defined format or location. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 0 through 2 are clearly sequenced, each gated by a named required read, with validation rules present in the body (docs_root validation with a named error, "Warn and proceed when grounding fails", precedence chain for output mode). However, most checkpoints live in delegated reference files, and the body ends at Phase 2, handing the critique/rank/menu half of the workflow off to post-ideation-workflow.md, so the full sequence is not visible here. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a genuine overview that splits detail into 13 reference files, all of which exist, with clear per-phase signals ("Read references/grounding.md before dispatching any grounding agent"). The gap: several real bundle files (ideation-sections.md, html-rendering.md, markdown-rendering.md, issue-intelligence.md, user-research-artifacts.md, web-research-cache.md, agents/*) are never named in SKILL.md and are only discoverable through other reference files, adding a second hop for that content. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |