Content
87%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The skill body is lean, dense, and highly actionable, routing user requests to specific tools with exact parameters and guarding against real pitfalls. Its main gap is the absence of explicit validation/verification checkpoints before batch bench operations, which keeps workflow clarity below full marks.
Suggestions
Add an explicit pre-bench validation step to the decision tree or a short workflow: e.g. run `alpha_zoo action=health` (and confirm the universe loader is implemented) before invoking `alpha_bench` on a whole zoo, since benching is a batch operation.
Spell out a feedback loop for bench failures — e.g. when `alpha_bench` reports `universe loader for X not yet implemented` or `loaded=0`, route back to `action=health` and surface per-error reasons before retrying.
Clarify the relationship between the Purpose section and the frontmatter description, which partially restate each other; merging would tighten the body further.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and token-efficient — a tool table, a parameter-level decision tree, an inventory table, constraints, and pitfalls — and assumes Claude's competence without explaining what factors, IC, or IR are, matching the 'lean and efficient; every token earns its place' anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | The decision tree gives exact, copy-pasteable invocations with concrete parameters (e.g. `alpha_zoo` with `action=list_alphas, theme=momentum`) and the tool table enumerates specific action names, fully executable rather than abstract guidance. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The decision tree provides clear routing of requests to tools and the pitfalls act as implicit guardrails, but there is no explicit validation checkpoint or feedback loop (e.g. check `action=health` before benching a whole zoo, confirm a universe loader exists before a long run); the rubric caps batch operations at 2 without such validation. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | A compact, well-organized single file (Purpose, Tools, Decision Tree, Inventory, Constraints, Pitfalls, Reference) with clearly signaled, one-level-deep references to source paths in the Reference section; no nested reference chains and no bundle bloat, fitting the well-organized-sections anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |