Conciseness

The ~95-line body is dense with non-obvious operational guidance (model_strength defaults, roster routing, receipt reading) and explains nothing Claude already knows. Every section — keep-vs-delegate lists, JSON configs, weak/strong prompt contrast — earns its tokens; not the anchor-4 case of over-explanation that could be trimmed.

Actionability

Two copy-paste-ready JSON agent configurations cover the common cases (read-only exploration with model_strength "faster", bounded code edit with "same"), and the weak-vs-strong prompt pair gives concrete templates with explicit write boundaries and acceptance criteria.

Workflow Clarity

Sections form a coherent sequence — Keep vs Delegate → Launch → Route → Evaluate and Verify — with an explicit verification checklist ("Read changed files directly. Run the relevant tests locally. Inspect unexpected diffs before committing"). Not a 5 because the sequence is implicit (no ordering cues) and the Prompt Shape reference section sits after verification rather than before launching, a minor sequencing gap.

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized single-file skill with clear section headers and no nested or buried references — nothing that clearly belongs in a separate file is inlined. At ~95 lines it exceeds the under-50-lines threshold where organization alone earns a 5, and the dense Route the Work runtime detail could arguably live in a reference file, so it lands at 'good structure, minor organization gaps'.

Specificity

"Strategic delegation for multi-step coding, research, or verification work" names three domains and the delegation strategy, but lists only one broad action (delegation/splitting) rather than several concrete actions. It sits at 'names domain and 1-2 concrete actions' — above generic domain-naming (2) but without the multiple specific actions of a 4 or 5.

Completeness

Both parts are explicit: what = "Strategic delegation for multi-step coding, research, or verification work", and an explicit "Use when a task can be split into parent reasoning plus focused sub-agent execution through the agent tool" clause. The when is a single task-shape condition rather than the multiple concrete trigger phrases of anchor 5, placing it between anchors 4 and 5.

Trigger Term Quality

Includes strong natural terms users would say — "delegation", "sub-agent execution", "agent tool", plus the coding/research/verification domains. Coverage is good but misses common variations like "parallelize", "fan out", "spawn agents", or "run tasks in parallel" that anchor 5 requires.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"delegate... focused sub-agent execution through the agent tool" carves a clear niche (parent/child delegation) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills. Not a 4, since even closely related orchestration skills would not collide with this specific parent-reasoning-plus-sub-agent framing.