Content
85%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 content is an exemplary structured workflow: sequenced stages, mandatory validation gates, actionable templates, and a clean one-level-deep bundle layout. Its one real weakness is token efficiency — tone and pitfall guidance is repeated across four sections that largely restate each other and the reference files.
Suggestions
Consolidate the tone guidance currently spread across 'Key Principles' (Stage 2), 'Tone and Language Guidelines', 'Common Rebuttal Pitfalls', and the 'Final Checklist' into a single section, moving the recommended/avoided phrase lists fully into references/writing_principles.md with a one-line pointer.
Trim the 'Final Checklist' to items not already enforced by the Stage 5 safety gates (provenance, commitment, coverage, tone, limits are each checked twice), keeping only the genuinely additional checks such as dual-output production and AC readability.
The 'Example of a good response' block with the full results table duplicates the worked examples in references/response_strategies.md; replace it with a one-line pointer to preserve the strategy rationale without the inline copy.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient — tables, gates, and worked examples earn their tokens — but tone/strategy guidance is restated four times across 'Key Principles', 'Tone and Language Guidelines', 'Common Rebuttal Pitfalls', and the 'Final Checklist', duplicating material already delegated to references/writing_principles.md and references/response_strategies.md. This is more than the 'minor instances' of the level-4 anchor, though no space is wasted explaining concepts Claude already knows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully actionable: a severity table with definitions, a strategy table with when-to-use examples, compound-strategy sample sentences, a concrete ICML budget split (~600/~4000/~400 chars), an executable script invocation (`scripts/count_limits.sh <file> [--chars|--words]`), and good/bad response exemplars with real numbers. The scoring note's instruction-skill exception applies and the guidance meets the top anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six clearly sequenced stages with explicit early-exit conditions ("If the user requested only analysis, stop here"), three mandatory safety gates with failure handling ("If any gate fails, fix the issue before proceeding"), issue-board status tracking that must reach done before finalizing, gates re-run per follow-up round, and a final checklist. This matches the top anchor: clear sequence, explicit validation, feedback loops, and checklists. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body acts as an overview routing to five real, one-level-deep reference files (verified present: venue_rule_matrix.md, writing_principles.md, issue_board_guide.md, response_strategies.md, platforms_and_policies.md) plus scripts/count_limits.sh, each signposted inline at point of use and again in the Resources section, with no nested references inside the reference files. Matches the 'clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |