Content
81%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 is a highly actionable, well-sequenced workflow with concrete commands, explicit validation checkpoints, and feedback loops. Its main weakness is redundancy across the Steps, Guidelines, and Guardrails sections, which hurts conciseness and organization.
Suggestions
Collapse the Artifact Creation Guidelines and Guardrails sections into the relevant Steps (or a single short checklist) to remove restated constraints like 'read dependencies', 'use template', and 'verify file exists'.
Move the long store-selection paragraph into a short pointer with the exception rule stated once, since it interrupts the main workflow before the input/steps.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and operational with no padding about concepts Claude already knows, but the Steps, Artifact Creation Guidelines, and Guardrails sections noticeably restate the same constraints (read dependencies, use template, context/rules are constraints, verify file exists), which could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | It provides copy-paste-ready `openspec` commands, names the exact JSON fields to parse, and gives concrete decision rules for walking requires edges and handling skipped artifacts, matching the fully-executable anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-5 are clearly sequenced with explicit validation (verify each artifact file exists before proceeding, re-run `openspec status` after each artifact), feedback loops (creating one can unblock others; re-check), and a todo-list checklist; the batch-operation cap does not apply because validation is present. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is well-organized into labeled sections with no nested references and no external files needed, but at over 50 lines the Guidelines and Guardrails sections overlap with the Steps, leaving a minor organization gap short of the clean-split anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |