Content
78%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.
An exemplary lean instruction-only body: concise, boundary-aware, and free of padding. Its main weakness is actionability — the workflow names what to extract and avoid but never shows or specifies the style-guide artifact Claude is meant to produce.
Suggestions
Add a brief skeleton or mini-example of the output style guide (e.g. 3-5 positive instructions plus one source-grounded observation) so the deliverable's format is unambiguous.
Number the steps explicitly (analyze reference → extract features → draft style guide → apply to the new work) to make the already-logical sequence explicit.
Optionally add one short worked illustration of a transferable feature vs. a non-transferable one to sharpen the extraction instruction.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Five lean bullets with zero padding and no explanation of concepts Claude already knows — each line adds non-obvious guidance (authority boundaries, named extraction targets, reuse prohibitions, application posture). Matches the anchor 'every token earns its place'. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete in places — a named feature list ('narrative distance, sentence movement, paragraph rhythm, dialogue density, sensory selection…') and concrete prohibitions ('Do not reuse source names, distinctive phrases, scene order…') — but the deliverable is underspecified: no example or template of the output style guide, and 'a few source-grounded observations' is undefined. Matches 'some concrete guidance but incomplete; missing key details', not 4 because the shape of the artifact Claude must produce is left open. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The bullets follow a logical sequence — authority boundary → extract features → avoid reuse → build style guide → apply flexibly — appropriate for a simple, non-destructive creative task where validation checkpoints are not needed. Not 5 because the sequence is implicit rather than framed as explicit steps; not 3 because the order is clearly discernible and nothing destructive/batch-related requires the validation cap. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is under 50 lines with no need for external references, and is appropriately organized as a flat bullet list with no inlined material that belongs in separate files. Per the simple-skill guideline, this earns the top score. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |