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75%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 reference skill: a mental model, high-value critical directives (inverted ifjump semantics, label-node identity, write node vs write node.link), and a numbered workflow with concrete MCP tool calls and a validation step. Reference index with open-when triggers is exemplary in form. Weak points are mild redundancy with the description, an implicit rather than explicit validate-fix-retry loop, and referenced bundle files that could not be verified as present.
Suggestions
Make the validation step an explicit feedback loop in the workflow: 'If mps_mcp_check_root_node_problems reports problems, fix and re-validate before proceeding' — this would lift workflow_clarity to anchor 5.
Trim the opening paragraph's restatement of the description (line 13) down to the new information (the language UUID and IBuilderMode context) to remove the description-body redundancy.
Ensure the six referenced files under references/ actually exist in the published bundle (they were not present here), since the otherwise excellent reference index depends on those paths resolving.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and dense with MPS-specific facts Claude would not know (e.g., 'the jump is taken when the condition is FALSE', 'EmitLabelStatement.name is display-only; jumps reference the label node via LabelPosition.label'). Minor trimmable parts keep it below anchor 5: the opening paragraph partially restates the frontmatter description, and the 'Loading companion skills' section is generic loader policy rather than dataflow content. Not anchor 3 — there is no genuine over-explanation of concepts Claude already knows. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance throughout: 'Create the dataflow model with mps_mcp_create_model (moduleName: "<lang>", modelName: "<lang>.dataFlow")', 'Validate with mps_mcp_check_root_node_problems', and 'inspect ... via mps_mcp_print_node with deep: true', plus exact concept/role names and a case-sensitivity trap ('The aspect ID is dataFlow — camelCase, case-sensitive'). It falls short of anchor 5 only because copy-paste-ready JSON blueprints are delegated to references/json-patterns.md rather than shown inline — appropriate for a reference-type skill, so this is a minor gap, not missing detail. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 'Common-Path Workflow' gives a clear 6-step sequence ending in an explicit validation checkpoint ('Validate with mps_mcp_check_root_node_problems') with a debugging tip for tricky cases. It misses anchor 5 because there is no explicit error-recovery feedback loop (what to do when validation fails, other than the pointers to rules-and-pitfalls.md) — 'sequence present, checkpoint present, retry loop implicit'. Operations are node-creation rather than destructive, so no cap applies. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The 'Reference Index' is well-signaled with per-reference 'open when' triggers, a 'Start here — most common case' entry pointing to references/json-patterns.md, and one-level-deep links (references/aspect-model-stereotypes.md, concept-catalog.md, rules-and-pitfalls.md, setup-and-engine.md, baselanguage-builder-index.md, sample-language-reference.md) — structurally matching anchor 5. However, no references/ directory is present in the bundle, so none of the six referenced paths could be verified to exist, which is a navigation-integrity gap that keeps it at 4 rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |