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.
A well-structured, token-efficient body: a three-stage reasoning framework, executable setup and delivery commands, explicit validation and ordering guidance, and clean one-level progressive disclosure into two real reference files. The main gaps are the absence of an explicit validate-fix-revalidate feedback loop for destructive edits and the lack of a concrete build-stage example.
Suggestions
Add one explicit error-recovery loop for the edit/replace-source path, e.g. "If validate reports errors, fix the candidate and re-validate before deliver" — this would lift workflow_clarity from 4 to 5.
Deduplicate the "the CLI provides facts, not quality verdicts" caveat between the Review and Deliver sections, keeping it once to tighten conciseness.
Include a minimal worked example in Build (e.g. a short openpyxl snippet creating a sheet with a formula) so the core task has copy-paste-ready guidance rather than a tool menu.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense, imperative, and free of explanations Claude already knows (no library tutorials, no format primers — "Write and run one task-specific, reproducible script... Use openpyxl, xlsxwriter, pandas, ExcelJS, direct OOXML editing, or another suitable tool"). Not 5: the caveat that the CLI "provides facts and images, never a content- or design-quality verdict" is restated in Deliver ("it does not... decide whether the content, formulas, design, or requested outcome are good enough; those judgments belong to the model"), and the optional-tools philosophy is repeated within the Review section itself — minor trimming opportunities. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Two executable bash blocks are included (workspace setup with SKILL_ROOT and PILOTDECK_WORK_DIR resolution; the full `deliver` invocation with `--source`, `--out`, and `--replace-source` variants), and validate/recalculate/render are named with clear pointers to their syntax in optional-tools.md. Not 5: the build stage itself offers a tool menu rather than a concrete worked example, and deliver uses unresolved placeholders ($FINAL_OUTPUT, $INPUT), so it is not fully copy-paste ready. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly sequenced Understand → Build → Review → Deliver flow with numbered stages and strong validation emphasis: optional validate/recalculate/render with explicit ordering ("recalculate the final candidate first so later evidence describes its final calculation state"), source protection, and atomic delivery that "rejects structurally unsafe or unreadable packages". Not 5: there is no explicit error-recovery feedback loop (validate → fix → re-validate) for the destructive edit/replace-source paths, so a minor validation checkpoint gap remains. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clear overview with two well-signaled, one-level-deep references, both verified real files: "read [spreadsheet-specifics.md](references/spreadsheet-specifics.md) only when relevant" and "See [optional-tools.md](references/optional-tools.md) only when one of these commands... would serve the task". Neither reference file nests further references, detail is appropriately split out (CLI syntax, formula-cache/LibreOffice specifics), and the scripts bundle is present as listed. Matches the 5 anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |