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86%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 an exemplary lean instruction skill: it specifies exact inputs, an exact output structure, and crisp exclusions and guardrails with no wasted tokens. The only meaningful gaps are the absence of any concrete commands or a worked example of the handoff format, and no explicit validation step for the written output.
Suggestions
Add one concrete example of the handoff output (a filled-in skeleton of the objective / current state / blockers / next action sections) so the expected format is unambiguous.
Include a validation step for the MEMORY.md update, e.g. re-read MEMORY.md after replacing stale progress to confirm no active facts were lost.
Name the specific inspection commands once (e.g. git status, git log --oneline -10) so the inspect step is copy-paste executable rather than implied.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Every sentence is instructional — "Inspect the current branch/revision, working-tree changes, MEMORY.md, manifest, decisions, and available check results. Write a compact handoff with..." — with zero padding, no background exposition, and no concepts Claude already knows. Lean and efficient; every token earns its place. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete instruction-only guidance: exact inputs to inspect and an exact output structure ("objective, current state, changed files, decisions and rationale, blockers, actual checks with date/results, unperformed checks, recovery checkpoint, and the next bounded action") plus explicit prohibitions. Falls short of 5 only because there are no copy-paste-ready commands or a concrete example of the handoff format. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear two-step sequence (inspect the listed sources, then write the structured handoff) with mostly explicit checkpoints via guardrails ("Do not infer successful checks or commit uncommitted changes", "replace stale progress in MEMORY.md rather than appending"). Not 5 because there is no explicit validate-the-output feedback loop, and the MEMORY.md replace step carries mild data-loss risk without a verify instruction. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is under 50 lines, no bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ are all absent), and none are needed — the skill's content is complete and well-organized in a single short page. Per the rubric guidelines, this scores 5 for a short simple skill with no need for external references. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |