Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is highly actionable with concrete tool calls, thresholds, and explicit validation gates, and it correctly links to real one-level reference files, but its main weakness is severe verbosity and redundancy across repeated sections and a monolithic main file that underuses progressive disclosure.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated 5-10 paper floor, 6-12/2-3 frontier, and literature/memory-search guidance into a single authoritative section and reference it instead of restating it in Non-negotiable rules, Related-work mandate, Memory rules, and Workflow §2.
Move the detailed ideation lenses, failure-mode recovery table, and durable-output templates into existing reference files so SKILL.md becomes a lean overview pointing to them.
Tighten prose by converting enumerated rule lists that restate the same constraint into a single checklist, cutting roughly half the body while preserving every distinct rule.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is substantive and does not explain concepts Claude already knows, but at ~1290 lines it is heavily padded with repetition — the 5-10 paper floor, the 6-12/2-3 frontier numbers, and the literature/memory-search guidance each recur across multiple sections and could be dramatically tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | It provides concrete, executable guidance throughout — specific tool calls like `artifact.arxiv(paper_id=..., full_text=False)` and `artifact.submit_idea(mode='create', lineage_intent='continue_line'|'branch_alternative', ...)`, concrete file paths, and explicit numeric thresholds (5-10 papers, 6-12 raw ideas, 7/10 gate). | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | It offers a sequenced numbered Workflow (§1-§8) plus Phases A/B/C, with explicit validation checkpoints such as the §7.1 quality gate (do not promote below 7/10), the narrative defensibility precheck, and concrete 'do not exit if...' exit criteria. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | All seven referenced bundle files exist and are signaled one level deep ('Use references/... for ...'), but SKILL.md itself is a monolithic ~1290-line wall of text holding most detail inline rather than acting as a lean overview that points out to those references. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |