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78%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-structured, lean instruction-only skill with two clearly differentiated forks, an explicit discipline section, a fold-the-answer procedure, and a completion definition that doubles as a validation checklist. The main gaps are stylistic flourish beyond what instructions require and a missing pre-presentation checkpoint that the artifact actually runs.
Suggestions
Add an explicit pre-presentation checkpoint in the discipline section (e.g., 'open the shell yourself once before handing it over; if it does not load in seconds, fix it first').
Trim metaphor-only sentences (e.g., the shipwright framing, 'three reskins are wallpaper') to pure instruction to tighten token efficiency.
Include one tiny worked example per fork — a three-line stub of the clickable shell or the route/variant layout — to close the remaining actionability gap.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and directive throughout, assumes Claude's competence, and explains no general concepts; nearly every token carries instruction. Not 5 because decorative metaphor ('Shipwrights loft the hull's lines', 'three reskins are wallpaper') adds tokens beyond what the instructions need. Not 3 because there is no unnecessary explanation or padding — only minor flourishes. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, specific guidance throughout: 'no DOM, no I/O, no framework', 'one button per scenario', 'One route, three variants that differ in structure', 'Push the artifact to a loft/<name> branch'. Per the scoring note, absence of code in an instruction-only skill is not penalized; but there is no worked example of the shell or variant structure, leaving minor gaps between directive and execution, so not 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence is coherent and complete (detect a stall → choose a fork → build under the discipline → captain reacts → revise in-session → fold the answer → completion definition), with a completion checklist and an explicit revision feedback loop ('Expect the first shape to be argued with: revise on the branch within the same session'). Not 5 because there is no explicit checkpoint verifying the artifact actually loads/runs before presenting it to the captain, and the fold-the-answer location choice is left open. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A single self-contained SKILL.md (~65 lines) with no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories; no reference in the body points to a nonexistent file, and nothing in the body clearly belongs in a separate file. Sections are well-organized and easy to navigate, matching the simple-skill provision for a top score. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |