Content
55%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is well-sequenced with strong validation checkpoints and concrete agent/state commands, but it is a monolithic 280-line document with significant repetition across sections and no bundle files to offload reference material. It would benefit from extracting schemas and advanced guidance into referenced files.
Suggestions
Split the RALPLAN-DR summary format, ADR section spec, and Question/Review classification tables into separate reference files (e.g. references/ralplan-dr.md) and link to them one level deep.
De-duplicate the repeated state-lifecycle and planning/execution-boundary reminders — state them once authoritatively and reference that section elsewhere.
Move the Deprecation Notice and Advanced design-option-presentation guidance to a separate advanced.md to reduce inline token load.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence without explaining basic concepts, but the body is heavily padded with repeated CRITICAL state-lifecycle and approval-boundary reminders across Execution_Policy, Steps, Tool_Usage, and Final_Checklist that could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete agent Task invocations, AskUserQuestion gates, and specific state_write/state_clear commands, but execution paths (ralph/team) are named by skill rather than given executable code, and several steps are directive prose rather than copy-paste-ready commands. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Multi-step processes (interview, direct, consensus, review) are explicitly numbered and sequenced with validation gates, a max-5-iteration re-review loop, and explicit stop/state-clear checkpoints for destructive/handoff operations. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist in references/, scripts/, or assets/, yet the body is a 280-line monolithic wall containing inline ADR formats, RALPLAN-DR schemas, deprecation notices, and repeated reference tables that should be split into separate referenced files. | 1 / 3 |
Total | 8 / 12 Passed |