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85%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-structured authoring workflow: stages are clearly sequenced with explicit gates, validation checklists, feedback loops, and failure recovery, while detailed worker prompts are properly offloaded to one-level-deep reference files. The only deductions are minor repetition of the relay-exactness instruction and a couple of deliberately abstract commands.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows and every section carries procedure, but the preserve-exact-failure theme recurs ~5 times ("Preserve each structured worker result and its exact failure reason", "relay the exact reason", "Relay worker results without interpretation"), leaving minor trim opportunities — anchor 4 rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete guidance dominates: exact scratch path ".tmp/scratch/plans/{skill-name}-research-plan.md", structured result fields "STATUS", "ARTIFACTS", "SOURCES", "GAPS", "WARNINGS", a filled-in final report template, and anchor-linked handoffs. Minor gaps remain: "Run the package-appropriate existing validator" names no command, and "Use the host's available worker mechanism" is deliberately abstract — anchor 4, not quite copy-paste-ready 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear three-stage sequence with an explicit overview diagram, three validation gates with checklists ("Gate 2: Source and Citation Review" enumerates per-category confirmations), feedback loops ("Return a category with unsupported claims to the same worker with the exact claims, not a summary"; "revalidate their citations before integration"), and a dedicated Failure Recovery section — matches anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview; worker handoff details are offloaded to references/agent-prompts.md via anchor links that resolve to real headings (## Categorization Handoff, ## Research Handoff, ## Integration Handoff), plus mcp-tools.md and gaps-analysis.md in a References section — all one level deep, all files verified to exist, matching the anchor-5 structure. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |