Conciseness

The ~24-line body is lean and dense with non-obvious guidance ('Preserve Work Done as append-only history. It is a record of prior claims, not an authoritative statement of current state.'), explaining nothing Claude already knows and wasting no tokens. It does not fit anchor 4 because there is no over-explanation to trim.

Actionability

Guidance is concrete and executable for an instruction-only skill: a specific fallback path ('list files in claudedocs/handoffs/'), an exact parse checklist ('Files involved (with line numbers)', 'Next steps (ordered)'), and explicit decision rules in step 4. It falls short of anchor 5 because a few directives remain abstract ('applicable decisions, and ownership') and no examples or templates are given for the common cases.

Workflow Clarity

The four-step sequence includes explicit validation (step 3 reconciliation plus 'Revalidate checks needed for the next action when their evidence is stale'), feedback loops for error recovery ('If the path does not exist... ask the user which one to load'; 'If next steps conflict with live evidence, resolve the conflict before dependent changes'), explicit completion criteria ('Done when...'), and a literal checklist in step 2. This is not a destructive/batch operation skill, so the score-3 cap does not apply.

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is under 50 lines, needs no external references, and is organized into clear '## Steps' and '## Notes' sections with no inlined content that belongs elsewhere. Per the rubric's simple-skill guideline, this earns a 5 on well-organized sections alone.

Specificity

The description enumerates multiple concrete actions covering the workflow end-to-end: 'Load a handoff document', 'Parses scope, file references, completed work, and next steps', 'checks live state and existing authorization before proceeding' — comparable in breadth and concreteness to the anchor-5 example. It does not fit anchor 4 ('minor gaps in coverage') because no meaningful capability of this skill is left unstated.

Completeness

The 'what' is clear and specific, but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance — 'resume work from where a previous session left off' only weakly implies the 'when'. The judging guideline explicitly caps completeness at 3 in this case; it scores above anchor 2 because the 'what' is fully articulated.

Trigger Term Quality

'handoff document', 'resume work', 'where a previous session left off' are phrases users would naturally say when needing this skill. It falls short of anchor 5 because common variations and synonyms ('continue', 'pick up where we left off', 'hand-off') are absent and the terms are embedded in capability prose rather than framed as triggers.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'handoff document' and 'previous session' carve out a clear niche with distinct triggers; virtually no other skill would compete for these terms. It exceeds anchor 4 because there is no closely related skill with which it risks overlap.