Content
60%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 well-structured with a clear heuristic, sequenced steps, and a useful decision flow, but it is held back by partial code examples and some redundant restating of the core rule in the Benefits and Anti-Patterns sections. It is a solid, mostly actionable skill with minor tightening needed.
Suggestions
Replace the truncated reportlab snippet (ending in '# ... continue') with a complete, runnable example or explicitly justify why it is intentionally partial.
Collapse the Benefits and Anti-Patterns sections into the core heuristic to remove restatement and recover tokens.
Add a brief verification step after document generation (e.g. confirm the output file exists and is non-empty) to close the workflow-clarity validation gap.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient with a clear heuristic up front, but the Benefits and Anti-Patterns sections largely restate the 2-failure rule, and the 2-retry limit is repeated multiple times, so it could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The 2-failure rule and pivot steps are concrete, but the code examples are partial — the reportlab snippet ends with '# ... continue with known information' and the known_facts dict is illustrative rather than complete executable code, leaving key details missing. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-4 are clearly sequenced and the Example Decision Flow provides explicit branching checkpoints (retry on failure #1, pivot on failure #2+); the only minor gap is no validation of the generated document, and the destructive/batch cap does not apply here. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized with clearly labeled sections and a self-contained heuristic requiring no external references; it is over 50 lines, so the simple-skill exception to reach 5 does not apply, but structure is good. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |