Content
88%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 highly actionable, well-sequenced scout body with explicit validation checkpoints and clean deferral to bundled skills; its only weaknesses are minor redundancy of the core discriminator and a somewhat long overview.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated 'rate vs raw total' emphasis into the discriminator section once, cross-referencing it from later sections instead of restating.
Consider moving the profile-shape table or the per-pattern Explore detail into a reference file to shorten the overview.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Dense and information-rich, assuming Claude's competence (no explaining what tracing or RED metrics are); the 'rate not raw total' discriminator is restated a few times across sections and could be trimmed slightly. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully actionable: names exact tools with concrete parameters (e.g. `query-apm-spans` with `flatSpans: true` / `rootSpans: false`, `apm-spans-aggregate` with a copy-ready query JSON, attribute keys like `server.address`, `db.system`, `service.version`, `status_code = 2`). | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly sequenced run (oriented → discriminator → profile → explore → memory → decide → close out) with explicit validation — a 'Disqualifiers (skip these)' checklist, the 'latest complete bucket' rule, and the ≥2-complete-buckets guard against partial-bucket false reads — plus edit-vs-author and append_evidence feedback loops. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized into clear sections and appropriately offloads detail to the bundled `exploring-apm-traces` skill and `authoring-scouts → references/report-contract.md` (one level deep, clearly signaled); the body is long for an overview and no bundle files exist in this skill's own directory to verify structure against. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |