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78%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 an admirably lean, well-structured instruction skill with explicit verification and failure-handling guidance. Its main weakness is actionability: the steps are clear directions but give little concrete guidance on what 'narrowest useful verification' actually entails.
Suggestions
Make step 3 more actionable by listing example verification forms (e.g. run the affected test suite, type-check, build) so 'narrowest useful verification' is concrete.
Add a brief acceptance-criteria check example to step 1 so the gate is unambiguous.
Optionally spell out the retry loop explicitly ('If verification fails: fix, then re-verify before reporting') to lift workflow_clarity to 5.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean with no padding and no explanations of concepts Claude already knows; every line (Non-goals, four-step Workflow, Failure mode) earns its place, matching the 'lean and efficient' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Steps are concrete process directions ('Make the smallest coherent change set', 'Run the narrowest useful verification') but stop short of specifying how to verify or what counts as done, fitting the 'some concrete guidance but incomplete' anchor rather than the executable-code anchor at 4. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 1-4 sequence with an explicit validation step (3) and an error-recovery feedback loop in the Failure mode section; it is not 5 because the verify-fix-retry loop is implied rather than spelled out as a re-validation cycle. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Under 50 lines with no need for external references, organized into well-signaled sections (When to use, Non-goals, Workflow, Failure mode), which per the simple-skills guidance merits a 5 on progressive disclosure. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |