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81%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-architected multi-phase workflow: explicit sequencing, design and verification gates, feedback loops on the publish path, and disciplined progressive disclosure to a real references/ bundle. The main defects are three unresolvable referenced paths (both templates/ and workflows/update-references.md), which leave the plan artifact's required format undefined as shipped, and a final checklist that largely restates earlier mandates rather than adding new checks.
Suggestions
Restore or remove the three unresolvable bundle paths — templates/plan-template.md, templates/report-format.md, and workflows/update-references.md — since step 7's plan spine, step 8's report format, and the Mode section's link routing all depend on files absent from the bundle.
Inline a compact outline of the plan template's required sections (even just the heading spine) so the central deliverable's format is actionable when the template file cannot be read.
Trim step 8's verification checklist to checks that catch failure modes not already enforced in steps 1–7; roughly half the bullets restate earlier mandates (causal-chain proof, comment coverage, validation-command provenance).
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body assumes Claude's competence and explains no known concepts, but step 8's 14-item checklist restates constraints already mandated in steps 1–7 (e.g., "bug-fix plans state the proven causal chain, fix boundary, and regression proof" repeats step 3's requirements, and "issue-derived plans account for relevant comments and linked tracker context" repeats step 1's), and several qualifier-dense sentences could be tightened. Not 3 because there are no unnecessary explanation blocks or padding. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance dominates: a copy-paste bash store resolver, named agent roles (codebase-explorer, codebase-analyst, root-cause-analyzer, web-researcher), exact paths ($PRP_DIR/plans/<kebab-case-name>.plan.md), an exact publish prefix (<!-- prp-plan-id: <plan-id> -->), and $-skill invocations. Not 5 because the central deliverable's format is delegated to files absent from the bundle — step 7 says "Read templates/plan-template.md ... Keep its required human-scannable spine" but that file, templates/report-format.md, and workflows/update-references.md do not resolve, leaving the output artifact's shape unspecified as shipped. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Eight numbered phases are explicitly sequenced with validation checkpoints at every boundary: the step 6 design gate lists exact stop-and-ask conditions, step 3 defines when to skip ("For requests that do not assert broken current behavior, skip this step"), and step 8 adds publish-then-verify feedback loops with failure handling ("If publication or verification fails, preserve the local plan but report the publication blocker; do not claim the shared handoff is complete") plus a 14-item completion checklist. This matches the anchor-5 pattern of clear sequence, explicit validation, error recovery, and checklists. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Structure and signaling are strong: a Resources section describes each file, references are one level deep and invoked in the relevant steps, and the four references/*.md files (44–139 lines each) exist. However, 3 of the 7 referenced paths do not resolve in the actual bundle (templates/plan-template.md, templates/report-format.md, workflows/update-references.md), including the file defining the required plan spine — navigation breaks for those. Not 3 because references are clearly signaled and content is appropriately split rather than inlined; not 5 because of the dead paths. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |