Content
68%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 admirably lean instruction-only skill: no filler, well-targeted constraints, and appropriately self-contained for its size. Its weakness is operational concreteness — no worked examples and no explicit sequence or verification step for the core risk (contradicting the parent canon).
Suggestions
Add one or two worked examples of a side-story dramatic question (e.g. an unseen interval during a timeskip) to make the selection guidance executable rather than abstract.
Specify how inventions are to be marked (e.g. a short annotation in the draft or a tracked list) so "Mark new side-story inventions as additions" has a concrete mechanism.
Turn the bullets into an explicit ordered checklist with a final verification step (re-read parent canon facts touched by the draft and confirm none are advanced, erased, or rewritten).
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Six single-sentence directives with zero padding, no explanation of concepts Claude already knows, and full assumption of the model's fiction-writing competence — every token earns its place. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Some guidance is concrete ("Choose a real side-story dramatic question: an unseen interval, another character's consequential viewpoint, a prehistory, aftermath, or bounded what-if"), but "Mark new side-story inventions as additions" specifies no format or procedure, and there are no worked examples, so key execution details are missing. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The bullets imply a rough sequence (treat parent as authority → pick the question → shape the arc → reuse canon → mark inventions) but the ordering is implicit and there are no validation checkpoints, e.g. how to verify the parent mainline state was not contradicted. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is under 50 lines with no need for external references, and the flat list is navigable; it falls short of the 5 standard only because there are no organizing sections to help scanning. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |