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.
The body is a concise, well-structured instruction-only skill with concrete capture guidance and sensible guard rails including failure handling. Its main gap is the absence of an explicit tool-call syntax example for capture_thought.
Suggestions
Add a one-line example showing the actual mcp__open-brain__capture_thought invocation with its expected arguments so the capture step is copy-paste ready.
Include an explicit verify/confirm step after capture (e.g. confirm the thought was registered) to strengthen the workflow's validation checkpoint.
Consider trimming or folding the 'Notes for Other Clients' section, since it describes other clients rather than guiding Claude in this skill.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly lean, assuming Claude's knowledge without re-explaining the memory system; the 'Problem' and 'Notes for Other Clients' sections add useful but slightly optional context that could be trimmed, keeping it just below a 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, actionable guidance is given — 'call mcp__open-brain__capture_thought with the memory content', 'Use the memory content (not the frontmatter) as the thought', and a worked example `[feedback] Don't mock the database in integration tests`; not a 5 because the actual tool-call invocation syntax/parameters are not shown. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear numbered Process (write file, update index, capture to Open Brain) plus failure-handling guard rails ('Do not block on failure ... note the sync failure') provide an explicit checkpoint; minor validation gaps remain, e.g. no explicit verify-after-capture step. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | This is a simple single-purpose skill under 50 lines with no external bundle files, and the body is cleanly organized into well-signaled sections (Problem, Trigger Conditions, Process, Output, Guard Rails, Notes), meeting the simple-skill exception for a top score. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |