Content
61%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 delivers genuinely actionable guidance — precise search limits, an automation prompt to copy verbatim, and complete output templates — but it is held back by redundancy across the Daily Prep Digest sections, broken markdown artifacts, and a workflow whose steps beyond initial clarification are outsourced to an index skill the reader cannot see from this file.
Suggestions
Consolidate the three overlapping Daily Prep Digest sections (Next Step Options, Automation Offer Guard, and the mode description) into one section, keeping the automation prompt block and the installed-automation check in a single place.
Fix the broken markdown: the '- [Blocking] ~~Calendar...' dependency list uses stray '~~' markers and an unbalanced checkbox, and the index-skill references mix a malformed double-# anchor ('SKILL.md## Cross-Skill Best Practices') with '../index/SKILL.md' relative links — pick one consistent, valid path format.
Summarize the full workflow inline (at least name steps 2-N, e.g., gather context per dependency category, rank/select, draft against the output format, offer next steps) instead of deferring entirely to the external index skill, so the sequence is followable from this file alone.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient instruction-giving, but there is padding and redundancy: the Daily Prep Digest automation is explained across three separate sections (Next Step Options, Automation Offer Guard, and the Modes section repeats the format again), plus filler like 'These are particularly important for this workflow; use your best judgment to potentially include...'. Also contains broken artifacts ('- [Blocking] ~~Calendar...', unbalanced list markup) that waste tokens. This fits 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened', not the lean anchor 5. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Strongly concrete for an instruction-only skill: exact search parameters ('next 3 business days, with 25 max results'), copy-paste automation prompt block, specific inspection paths ('$CODEX_HOME/automations/*/automation.toml'), and full output-format templates for both modes. Not 5 because several steps remain abstract ('Resolve the account or workstream from... nearby context', 'Improve or refine the brief based on the user's guidance') and key execution detail is delegated to an external index skill not present in the bundle. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Step 1 (dependency resolution and clarification) is well sequenced with explicit checkpoints ('do not retrieve deeper context or draft a brief until the user selects one', 'If no credible anchor exists, state the gap'), but the rest of the workflow is never enumerated — it defers to 'the default workflow in the index skill', which is not part of this skill. Steps listed with the middle of the sequence missing matches anchor 3 rather than the complete, checkpointed sequence of anchor 4. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized sections with clear headers, inline output templates appropriately placed, and one-level-deep references clearly signaled via markdown links to the index skill's sections. Not 5 because the reference paths are partly malformed or ambiguous ('plugins/sales/skills/index/SKILL.md## Cross-Skill Best Practices' uses a double-# anchor; the output formats use '../index/SKILL.md' relative links) and no bundle files exist to carry detail that is currently inlined (e.g., the full automation-offer guard text). | 4 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |