Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The content is highly actionable with a rigorous, validation-gated workflow, but it pays for that rigor in conciseness — extensive rationale anecdotes inflate the file — and in progressive disclosure, since everything lives in one monolithic SKILL.md with no external reference files.
Suggestions
Move the long dogfooding rationale ('Measured:', 'Dogfooded against its own PR #…') into a separate references/ file or condense to one line per rule; the actionable rule and its command earn their place, the war-story justification does not.
Extract the stable reference material — the agent dimension table, the presubmit JSON schema, the review/state JSON formats, and the severity definitions — into reference files under references/ and link to them one level deep, turning the monolithic file into an overview.
Trim restated rules: several constraints (worktree flow, verbatim-copy, no todo_write) are repeated across steps; state each once and reference it.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~1000-line body is substantively efficient but heavily padded with dogfooding war-stories and repeated rationale ('Measured:', 'Dogfooded against its own PR'), matching the score-2 anchor of useful content that could be tightened rather than the lean score-3. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully executable bash commands (parse-args, fetch-pr, agent-prompt --roster, submit, resolve-anchors), exact JSON schemas, and copy-paste-ready flag grammar throughout. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly sequenced 9-step pipeline with explicit validation checkpoints (check-coverage exit 3, Step 4 verification, Step 5 iterative audit termination rules, Step 7 anchor validation and 422 recovery) and fail-closed feedback loops. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | No references/scripts/assets bundle exists; the skill is a single ~1000-line monolithic file with schemas, dimension tables, and severity definitions inline, matching the score-2 anchor of content that should be split but is kept inline rather than a well-signaled one-level reference structure. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |