Content
81%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 skill body is a strong, execution-first document: concrete commands, precise API contracts, a genuinely useful hyperparameter table, and pitfalls that encode real operational failure modes. Its main defects are a missing referenced template file (custom_problem_template.py) and a few prose sections that could be tightened.
Suggestions
Ship the missing templates/custom_problem_template.py referenced in 'Defining a Custom Problem', or inline a minimal complete template since the bundle currently has no templates/ directory.
Trim the 'Status: thin wrapper' paragraph and condense the license note to a single directive line to save context tokens.
Move the external reading links (arXiv, Imbue posts) into a references/ file so the SKILL.md body stays purely operational.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and nearly all of it is non-obvious, upstream-specific knowledge (install layout, hyperparameter table, nested-pickle snapshots, hardcoded Anthropic CLI) with no padding explaining concepts Claude already knows. Minor trimming opportunities remain — the 'Status: thin wrapper' paragraph and parts of the license note — so it fits 'Efficient; minor instances that could be trimmed' rather than the 5-anchor's every-token-earns-its-place. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Install, verify, both quick-starts, snapshot inspection, and the final verification block are all copy-paste-ready commands, and the Organism/Evaluator/Mutator contracts are given with exact signatures. It falls short of 5 because the referenced 'templates/custom_problem_template.py' is missing from the bundle and only the prompt case has a complete worked example, leaving regex/SQL/code without executable coverage. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence is explicit and validated end-to-end: install → 'Verify:' block → smoke-test run → expected outputs stated → custom problem → verification script with exit code 0, plus error-recovery guidance in the pitfalls (try/except returning '<LLM_ERROR: ...>', 'Return [] on parse failure'). This matches 'Clear sequence with explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery'. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is well-sectioned with real one-level-deep bundle references ('scripts/parrot_openrouter.py', 'scripts/show_snapshot.py' both exist) and clean navigation. It is not 5 because the body cites 'templates/custom_problem_template.py', which does not exist in the bundle — a broken reference — leaving 'minor organization gaps' per the 4-anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |