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 body is an exemplary operational guide: fully executable dispatch examples, a clearly gated two-stage review workflow with feedback loops, and well-signaled one-level references. Its main weakness is redundancy — the core rules are repeated across several closing sections, which inflates token cost without adding guidance.
Suggestions
Consolidate the overlapping rule statements in 'Red Flags', 'Handling Issues', 'Efficiency Notes', and 'Remember' into a single canonical checklist to cut repeated tokens.
Trim the 'Example Workflow' narrative to one task's full loop (spec fail → fix → re-review) instead of two plus filler ('... continue for all tasks').
Consider moving the 'Integration with Other Skills' section into a reference file, keeping the body focused on the dispatch/review loop itself.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient with concrete examples throughout, but the same rules are restated across 'Red Flags', 'Handling Issues', 'Efficiency Notes', 'Remember', and the lengthy 'Example Workflow' (e.g. 'Never skip reviews' / 'Skip review loops' / 'Never skip reviews' appear in multiple sections). It could be tightened without losing guidance, so it sits at the 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' anchor rather than 4. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully concrete, copy-paste-ready guidance: complete delegate_task(...) calls with goal, full context strings, and toolsets; todo(...) invocations; runnable commands ('pytest tests/ -q', 'git add -A && git commit -m ...') and a worked example covering the common case. Matches the 'fully executable' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The process is clearly sequenced (parse plan → dispatch implementer → spec review → quality review → mark complete → final integration review → verify/commit) with explicit validation gates ('Continue only when spec-compliant', 'Continue only when approved'), feedback loops ('Repeat until approved', 'Don't skip the re-review'), ordering rules, and checklists. Matches the top anchor including feedback loops for error recovery. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good structure with well-signaled, one-level-deep references — both 'references/context-budget-discipline.md' and 'references/gates-taxonomy.md' exist and each has an explicit load condition ('Load when a run will clearly consume significant context', 'Load when designing or reviewing any workflow that has validation checkpoints'). It falls short of the top anchor because the ~330-line body inlines sizable narrative content (Example Workflow, Integration with Other Skills) that pushes it beyond a lean overview. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |