how-to-delegate

Scientific delegation framework for orchestrators — provide observations and success criteria while preserving agent autonomy. Use when assigning work to sub-agents, before invoking the Agent tool, or when preparing delegation prompts for specialist agents.

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-sequenced, highly actionable delegation worksheet with strong validation checkpoints and clean structure. Its main weakness is moderate verbosity from repeated rationales and restated cautions.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient worksheet structure, but repeated 'Why' rationales and the same anti-pre-gathering caution restated across core principles, Step 3, and Step 8 add explanation that could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides copy-paste-ready Skill() and Agent() invocations, a fill-in Step 9 prompt template, per-field examples, and concrete pass/fail checklists — fully executable guidance covering common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Steps 1–10 are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints (Step 8 pre-flight checklist, Step 10 'READY TO DELEGATE?' gate) plus a conditional-execution flowchart; this is a non-destructive skill so no cap applies.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into clearly headed sections with a single one-level-deep, clearly signaled external reference (agent-orchestration skill); no bundle files exist, and the inlined worksheet content is appropriately single-file, though field examples add length.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Description

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The description clearly states both what the skill does and when to use it with concrete trigger phrases, and carves a recognizable delegation niche. It is slightly held back by somewhat abstract action verbs and minor overlap with a sibling orchestration skill.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the delegation domain plus a couple of actions ('provide observations and success criteria while preserving agent autonomy'), but the actions lean abstract rather than fully concrete, matching 'Names domain and 1-2 concrete actions, but not comprehensive.'	3 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers what ('Scientific delegation framework... provide observations and success criteria while preserving agent autonomy') and when ('Use when assigning work to sub-agents, before invoking the Agent tool, or when preparing delegation prompts').	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	'assigning work to sub-agents', 'before invoking the Agent tool', 'delegation prompts for specialist agents' are natural orchestrator phrasings with good coverage, though a few common synonyms are missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The delegation-preparation niche is mostly distinct, but a sibling agent-orchestration skill is referenced in the body, creating minor overlap risk with a closely related skill.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 1 suspicious	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills
Path: plugins/agent-orchestration/skills/how-to-delegate/SKILL.md
Commit: 0e07c84

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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