Content
67%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 body is a well-structured, highly actionable scout playbook with concrete tool calls, a decision table, and explicit triage rules that mostly offload generic mechanics to a referenced contract. Its main weakness is conciseness — the discriminator and missed-firing framing are restated several times — and validation feedback loops are implicit rather than spelled out as validate-fix-retry cycles.
Suggestions
Tighten the discriminator section by stating the missed-ness × materiality × persistence ranking once and cutting the redundant 'this is the whole reason you exist' / 'it's the whole game' refrains.
Make the report-contract.md reference a resolvable relative link (e.g. [report-contract.md](../references/report-contract.md)) and confirm the file ships in the bundle.
Add an explicit validate→fix→retry checkpoint for suppressed-by-agent firings (verify the false-negative call before filing) to lift workflow clarity toward 5.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is information-dense and assumes Claude's competence (no generic concept explanations), but it is long and several passages restate the discriminator and triage framing more than once ('This is the whole reason you exist', 'Internalize that ordering; it's the whole game'), placing it at 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete tool calls with parameters (alert-get with checks_date_from=-24h, scout-scratchpad-search text=insight_alerts), exact scratchpad key formats, and a checks-shape decision table give mostly executable guidance with only minor gaps (e.g. no literal example report body), matching 'mostly executable guidance; concrete code or commands with minor gaps'. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear sequenced run (orient → narrow candidates → deep-read → save memory → decide → close out) with explicit checkpoints (quick close-out on zero alerts, edit-vs-author decision, per-run cap with disclosure of dropped items); it falls just short of 5 because validation feedback loops are implicit (verify-before-trust on suppressed firings) rather than spelled out as a validate→fix→retry cycle. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized sections with a single clearly-signaled one-level reference (authoring-scouts → references/report-contract.md) and the harness prompt owning generic report mechanics, so SKILL.md stays an overview; it is a 4 rather than 5 because report-contract.md is referenced by name but not as a resolvable link and the bundle file is not present in this workspace to verify. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |