Content
92%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is an exceptionally actionable, well-sequenced financial-modeling skill with strong validation gates and feedback loops. Its one weakness is progressive disclosure: with no bundle files, the three large recipes live inline in one file rather than being split into navigable references.
Suggestions
Extract each model-type recipe (3-statement, DCF, LBO) into its own reference file under references/ and keep SKILL.md as an overview with one-level-deep links, improving navigation and token budget on partial use.
Move the peripheral output patterns (print delivery, football-field chart, returns waterfall) into a separate references/outputs.md and reference it from the body.
If the recipes stay inline, add a compact table-of-contents near the top so Claude can jump to the relevant recipe without loading the whole file.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Dense and load-bearing rather than padded — it explicitly declines to re-teach finance ('Terse reference — not a finance textbook', 'runnable skeleton, not finance theory') and pushes shared rules to the base skill ('inherited, not re-taught'), so nearly every token earns its place despite the file's length. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | Copy-paste-ready officecli batch heredocs with exact props, verified flag values pinned to v1.0.63, and concrete formulas make the guidance fully executable rather than descriptive. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Mandatory build orders, an executable six-gate Delivery cycle with explicit validation checkpoints, and feedback loops (cache-refresh pass, write-order surgery de-ring/re-ring, convergence verify) give clear sequencing with error recovery. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | References to the base xlsx skill are clearly signaled one level deep ('→ see xlsx v2 §X'), but no bundle files exist and three full multi-step recipes (A/B/C, ~80 lines each) are inlined in a single monolithic file where they could be split into separate reference files. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |