Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The content is highly actionable with concrete templates, exact paths, and a clear validated workflow, but it is somewhat verbose through repeated forecast restatements and relies on inline material that a reference bundle could offload.
Suggestions
De-duplicate the Review Workload Forecast: define the field set once and reference it from the template, rules, and return summary instead of restating all fields each time.
Move the large task-file template and phase-organization guidelines into a references/ file (e.g., TASK_TEMPLATE.md) to improve progressive disclosure and shrink the inline body.
Inline the specific Section A/B/C/D mechanics from sdd-phase-common.md (or confirm that file ships in the bundle) so persistence/retrieval steps are self-contained rather than only referenced.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly prescriptive, but the Review Workload Forecast is restated four times (template table, rules, plain-text contract, return summary) and the gate/language-domain prose adds length that could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | It supplies copy-paste-ready task file templates, exact artifact paths (sdd/{change-name}/tasks, openspec/changes/{change-name}/tasks.md), an exact plain-text guard contract, and a good/anti-example rules table — concrete and executable. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear five-step sequence (Load → Analyze → Write → Persist → Return) is given with a MANDATORY persist checkpoint, RED-test-before-production ordering, and an explicit base-retargeting validation for feature-branch chains. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Shared-file references (sdd-phase-common.md Sections A–D, openspec-convention.md) are one-level-deep and clearly signaled, but the ~250-line body keeps large templates/tables inline and no reference bundle exists to split them into. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |