Content
71%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.
Well-structured analytical skill with strong progressive disclosure (real, clearly-linked reference files) and an actionable critique template. The main weakness is conciseness — the General Approach principles and the closing Remember section restate knowledge Claude already has and could be trimmed.
Suggestions
Cut or compress the 'Remember' section and the five 'General Approach' principles (e.g., 'Recognize that all research has limitations', 'Don't apply stricter standards to findings you dislike') — Claude already applies these; keep only skill-specific procedural guidance.
Replace the per-file paragraph re-descriptions in 'Reference Materials' with a compact one-line-per-file table; the file list in 'Core Capabilities' already signals what each reference covers.
Add one short worked example of critiquing a single study end-to-end through the 5-part structure to lift actionability from strong templates to fully concrete guidance.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly useful procedural content, but padded sections restate what Claude already knows — the 'General Approach' principles ('Recognize that all research has limitations', 'Distinguish between fatal flaws and minor limitations') and the closing 'Remember' section largely repeat earlier material, and the Reference Materials block re-describes each file at length. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, usable templates — a 5-part critique structure (Summary/Strengths/Concerns/Specific Recommendations/Overall Assessment), example uncertainty phrasings ('This could be X or Y; additional information needed is Z'), and executable commands (the generate_schematic.py bash snippet, `grep -r "pattern" references/`). Minor gap: no fully worked end-to-end critique example. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The critique workflow is clearly sequenced with severity tiers (Critical/Important/Minor concerns) and the 'When Uncertain' section gives conditional-assessment branching. No explicit validate→fix→retry loop, but the task is analytical rather than destructive/batch, so the validation cap does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a genuine overview pointing to seven one-level-deep reference files, all present in references/ and linked with clear markdown paths; navigation guidance ('Load references into context when detailed frameworks are needed', grep command) is explicit and there is no nested-reference indirection. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |