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92%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 a well-structured, executable playbook: a clearly sequenced six-step loop with a real validation gate, concrete tree.py commands throughout, and a clean one-level-deep reference structure. Its only weakness is mild motivational verbosity that restates the procedure in a separate Principles section.
Suggestions
Tighten or fold the 'Principles that make this work' section into the six steps — it largely restates them — to remove motivational padding and recover tokens.
Trim rhetorical framing like 'This is the heart of HTR; do not collapse it into ad-hoc editing' and 'This is the step that makes the tree more than a log' that add length without procedural content.
Condense the multi-paragraph citation block; keep the fetch-and-cite instruction but drop the repeated restatements of the version rule.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient and largely covers HTR mechanics that Claude does not already know (a 2026 paper), but it carries motivational prose ('This is the step that makes the tree more than a log', 'This is the heart of HTR; do not collapse it into ad-hoc editing') and a 'Principles' section that restates the six steps — minor over-explanation that could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides copy-paste-ready CLI invocations for every phase — `tree.py init`, `observe`, `add-node`, `set-evidence`, `propagate`, `prune`, `merge`, `set-status`, `status` — with real flags and example values, plus a pointer to the executor-brief template. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The six-step coordinator loop (Observe → Ideate → Select → Dispatch → Backpropagate → Decide) is explicitly sequenced with a validation checkpoint — the held-out merge gate admits a change only on E_test, run in a fresh worktree, with explicit error-recovery guidance when the gate rejects it. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview with a dedicated 'Reference files' section signaling one-level-deep pointers (htr-methodology.md, executor-brief.md, report-template.md, arbor-upstream.md), each annotated with what it contains and when to read it; all referenced files exist in the bundle. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |