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75%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 well-crafted, directive skill body: it teaches nothing Claude already knows, provides ready-to-use issue templates, and sequences the QA session into five clear steps with most checkpoints present. Weakest spots are a small amount of duplicated guidance, a missing example gh invocation, and no post-filing verification step.
Suggestions
Deduplicate the dependency-order guidance: 'Create issues in dependency order' appears both in the breakdown intro and in the 'When creating a breakdown' bullet list — keep it in one place.
Add a concrete example of the filing command, e.g. `gh issue create --title "<short user-facing summary>" --body-file <tmpfile>` -- or state explicitly that title/body should be passed via flags, so the filing step is copy-paste ready.
Add a post-filing verification step to the workflow: confirm each issue URL was created successfully (e.g., check the gh output/returned URL) before summarizing blocking relationships, closing the validation gap in step 4.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean, assumes Claude's competence, and teaches no concepts Claude already knows — every section is directive. One minor trimmable redundancy: 'Create issues in dependency order' appears both in the breakdown section intro ('Create issues in dependency order (blockers first) so you can reference real issue numbers') and again as a bullet ('Create issues in dependency order so you can reference real issue numbers'), keeping it just below the every-token-earns-its-place anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and executable for an instruction-only skill: specific tools ('Agent (subagent_type=Explore) in the background', 'Create issues with `gh issue create`'), copy-paste-ready issue templates with placeholders, and explicit rules ('No file paths or line numbers', 'Reproduction steps are mandatory'). The minor gap versus anchor 5 is that no example `gh issue create` invocation (with title/body flags) is given, so the filing step relies on Claude's existing knowledge of gh flags. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear five-step sequence (listen/clarify → explore → assess scope → file → continue) with most checkpoints present: a question limit ('at most 2-3 short clarifying questions'), a recovery path for missing repro steps ('if you can't determine them, ask the user'), and a session-level feedback point ('ask: "Next issue, or are we done?"'). The remaining gap versus anchor 5 is the absence of any post-filing verification (e.g., confirming each issue URL was created successfully or re-reading the filed issue body). Issue creation is not destructive, so the destructive/batch cap at 3 does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is well-structured with clear section headers, a numbered step sequence, and distinctly labeled single-issue and breakdown templates; no bundle files exist and none are strictly required at this size. It does not reach anchor 5 because the two full issue templates are inlined and could arguably be extracted to reference files, and the skill exceeds the under-50-lines threshold under which well-organized sections alone would score 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |