Content
80%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 content is a tight, well-structured instruction skill with a concrete output contract and clear decision logic; its main gap is the lack of a worked example and an explicit self-validation step before emitting the brief.
Suggestions
Add one short worked example showing a user request mapped to the full PAPER_PREFERENCES output for both DIRECT and PREFERENCE_DRIVEN modes.
Include an explicit validation checkpoint (e.g., 're-check that no preference conflicts with the user request and that all defaulted fields are recorded under DEFAULTS_USED before emitting').
Collapse the small overlap between 'Decision modes' and 'Hard rules' so each directive appears once, trimming a few tokens.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean with no padding or explanations of concepts Claude already knows; the only minor over-explanation is restating each rule in both 'Decision modes' and 'Hard rules' sections, keeping it just below the 'Lean and efficient' anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | It gives a fully concrete, copy-paste-ready output contract with exact field names and enum values, which is highly executable; the only minor gap is the absence of a worked input->output example, leaving it just short of fully covering common cases. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear single-purpose flow is sequenced (inputs -> decision modes -> output contract -> hard rules) with explicit handling for the discuss-first case, but there is no explicit validate-then-fix checkpoint on the produced brief, so it sits just below the explicit-validation anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | This is a short single-purpose skill under 50 lines with no external references needed; it is well-organized into clearly labeled sections, qualifying for the simple-skill exception where progressive disclosure scores 5 with just well-organized sections. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |