Content
81%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.
A well-orchestrated, executable workflow document: precise filter logic, gated pre-flight, wave-based parallelism with failure recovery, and concrete output templates. Its main weaknesses are mild duplication across Step 2 and Error Handling, and reliance on sibling-skill files for the deeper mechanics, which keeps actionability and progressive disclosure just below top marks.
Suggestions
Deduplicate the zero-match and layer-filter error messages by stating them once (e.g., only in Error Handling) and referencing that section from Step 2, tightening conciseness.
Consolidate the K=0/K=1 conditional formatting rules for the Skipped (fresh) row into a single rule covering both the header and the table, removing the repeated case-by-case instructions.
Consider moving the full Step 6 summary report template into a reference file (e.g., references/report-template.md) to slim the main body, keeping only the section list inline.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Lean, operational content with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows. Minor trimming opportunities: the zero-match layer error message appears verbatim in both Step 2 and Error Handling, and the summary template spells out K=0/K=1 conditional formatting rules in two places (header and table). Not the top anchor because of this small duplicated detail. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Highly actionable for an instruction-only skill: exact glob patterns ("Glob ./research/**/*.md (exclude README.md)"), exact worker invocation ("--rerun ./research/{category}/{name}.md"), copy-paste output templates, and a mermaid flowchart encoding the precise staleness rules. Falls short of fully self-contained because key mechanics (curator prompt, Rerun Mode details) are delegated to external files not present in this bundle. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation for a batch operation: the RT-ICA pre-flight checklist with an APPROVED/BLOCKED decision, the --dry-run checkpoint, per-wave completion logging with wait-for-all before the next wave, the Validation Gate, and Failure Recovery handling for failed/timed-out/unchanged workers. Feedback loops are present, so the batch-operation cap does not apply. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good structure with clear sections and well-signaled, one-level-deep references into the sibling curator skill ([Failure Recovery](../research-curator/references/batch-mode.md#failure-recovery), [Rerun Mode Output](../research-curator/SKILL.md#rerun-mode-output)). Minor gaps: no bundle files exist alongside this SKILL.md, so the referenced paths cannot be verified from this bundle, and some inlined detail (the full summary report template and staleness flowchart) could live in a reference if the file grows. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |