Content
77%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 body is highly actionable with an exemplary sequenced, gated workflow and copy-paste templates. Its weaknesses are token efficiency (redundancy and rationale Claude already knows) and progressive disclosure (a monolithic single file with no reference split for the large embedded template).
Suggestions
Remove the redundant trailing Success Criteria section or fold it into the per-phase checkpoints to eliminate duplicate content and save tokens.
Move the full research-plan markdown template and the domain/complexity/model tables into a reference file (e.g. references/plan-template.md) and link to it one level deep, keeping only a compact quick-start in SKILL.md.
Trim explanations Claude already knows (the sonnet-vs-opus rationale, the generic complexity-factor bullet list) down to the operational choices themselves.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is mostly efficient with concrete templates and bash, but it includes redundancy (per-phase checkpoints repeated in the final Success Criteria) and rationale Claude already knows (the sonnet/opus model-selection rationale table, "Complexity factors" listing breadth/depth). Not a 4 because the padding is noticeable across multiple sections. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Copy-paste-ready bash (the PRP store resolver), an exact filled-in markdown template with clearly marked placeholders, and concrete filename-conversion examples make the guidance fully executable for the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Seven phases (PARSE→OUTPUT) are explicitly sequenced, each with a checkpoint checklist, and GATEs provide feedback loops (stop-and-ask when too vague; do-not-proceed until the plan file passes the 6-section validation). This matches the top anchor for clear sequencing with validation and error-recovery loops. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Internal sectioning is clear (per-phase headers, checkpoints), but the skill is a monolithic 540-line file with no bundle references and the full plan template plus domain/complexity tables inlined rather than split into reference files. Not a 2 because structure is good; not a 4 because content that belongs in separate files is inlined with no one-level-deep references. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |