Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-sequenced, highly actionable planning skill with concrete templates, constants, and verification checkpoints. Its main weaknesses are mild redundancy between the Key Rules and the phase descriptions, and a monolithic structure whose large output templates could be factored into reference files.
Suggestions
Collapse the 'Key Rules' section into the phases it duplicates (simplicity, frontier, strong baselines, must-run vs nice-to-have) to remove redundancy, or restate only the non-obvious rules.
Move the EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md and EXPERIMENT_TRACKER.md template blocks into reference files under references/ and link to them, so the main body stays a lean overview.
Add an explicit validate/retry loop note for the run order (e.g. re-evaluate claims after the sanity stage) to strengthen the already-present decision gates.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence (no preamble on what ablations or seeds are), but the 'Key Rules' section repeats guidance already given in the phases (e.g. defending simplicity, preferring strong baselines) and could be tightened. Not 3 because of this redundancy; not 1 because it is not padded with concepts Claude already knows. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully specified, copy-paste-ready output templates with exact field lists per experiment block, fixed constants (MAX_PRIMARY_CLAIMS=2, DEFAULT_SEEDS=3), and concrete milestone/summary structures. Not 2 because guidance is executable and complete, not pseudocode or vague direction. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Sequences a clear Phase 0-5 process with explicit stop/go decision gates per milestone and a final 'Final Checklist' verification step. Not 2 because validation checkpoints are present rather than merely implicit. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized into sections, but the 237-line body is monolithic with large inline template blocks (EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md and EXPERIMENT_TRACKER.md structures) that could live in separate reference files. Not 3 because it exceeds the simple-skill carve-out without splitting detail into one-level-deep references; not 1 because sections are clearly labeled and navigable. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |