Content
73%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 a strong, highly actionable workflow: concrete CLI commands, conflict-detection logic grounded in codebase evidence, user confirmation before the destructive batch, and complete outcome reporting. Weaknesses are limited to moderate redundancy between the step-9 example and the Output sections, and the underspecified spec-sync delegation in step 8a. Consolidating the duplicated output templates and inlining (or referencing) the sync-specs mechanics would lift it further.
Suggestions
Remove the duplication between step 9's example summary and the 'Output On Success'/'Output On Partial Success' templates — keep one canonical output format.
Tighten the 'Conflict Resolution Examples' section or move it to a reference file, since it restates step 5's decision logic that is already fully specified.
Inline the key mechanics of the 'openspec-sync-specs approach' (or at least its concrete steps) instead of delegating the core spec-sync action to another skill by name only.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly lean with concrete commands and no padding of known concepts, but there is real redundancy: step 9's example summary duplicates the 'Output On Success' template almost verbatim, and the two 'Conflict Resolution Examples' re-illustrate logic already specified in step 5. This fits 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'; it is above score 2 (no verbose concept explanations) but below score 4 because the duplication is more than a minor trim. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The workflow gives concrete, executable commands (`openspec list --json`, `openspec status --change "<name>" --json`, `mkdir -p`/`mv`), exact table formats, and output templates. The minor gap is step 8a's 'Use the openspec-sync-specs approach (agent-driven intelligent merge)', which delegates the core spec-sync action to another skill without any inline detail — matching 'mostly executable guidance; concrete code or commands with minor gaps' rather than the fully copy-paste-ready anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 9-step sequence is clearly ordered with explicit validation checkpoints at every risky stage: batch status gathering (step 3), conflict detection (step 4), codebase-evidence resolution (step 5), a consolidated status table (step 6), and a single user confirmation before the destructive batch (step 7), followed by per-change outcome tracking and a failure-continuation rule ('If archive target exists, fail that change but continue with others'). Despite being a destructive batch operation, validation and feedback loops are present, so the batch-operation cap does not apply and the content matches the anchor-5 example's validate-before-proceeding pattern. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a single well-organized file with clear sections (Steps, Conflict Resolution Examples, Output templates, Guardrails) and no bundle files exist to reference, so there is no buried or nested-reference problem. It falls short of score 5 because at ~240 lines the example-heavy material (conflict examples, output templates) could arguably be split into a separate reference file, matching 'good structure; most content appropriately placed; minor organization gaps' rather than a cleanly split overview. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |