Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A highly actionable, well-sequenced instruction skill with concrete helpers, an explicit citation format, and validation checkpoints baked into the workflow. Its main weakness is verbosity — the argumentative prose earns its point once but repeats — and the absence of any bundle split for material that could live in reference files.
Suggestions
Tighten the rhetorical/argumentative passages (e.g., the 'bibliography in paragraph costume' and 'memory supplies plausible names' paragraphs) to one lean statement each; the point lands once and frees token budget.
Move the detailed citation-format and style_pass rules into a short reference file (e.g., references/citation-format.md) and keep SKILL.md a lean overview, improving progressive disclosure.
Note explicitly that kernel.py lives alongside SKILL.md (the exec path uses a placeholder) so the helper contract is unambiguous even when the bundle is inspected in isolation.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and avoids explaining basics Claude knows, but several paragraphs are padded with rhetorical flourish ('a bibliography in paragraph costume', 'memory supplies plausible names, not the paper's') and argumentative prose that could be tightened into leaner instruction. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, executable guidance — named helpers (verify_dois, crossref_lookup, search_openalex, expand_citations, style_pass), specific env vars, an exact inline citation format with a URL-encoding rule, and a concrete scale ('on the order of fifteen or more distinct primary-paper DOIs'). | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear sequenced workflow — exec kernel.py, read the request type, run the sweep, walk the citation graph backward/forward, check retractions, synthesize, run style_pass once, save — with explicit validation checkpoints (DOI resolution 'checkable in five seconds', retraction checks, style_pass as a lint-not-gate with 'do not loop'). | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill ships as a single dense SKILL.md with no bundle files (references/scripts/assets absent); sections are well-organized but substantial inline content (style_pass rules, citation-format details, env-var configuration) could be split out for easier navigation. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |