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60%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 router is well-written as prose — concise, clearly sequenced, with real validation checkpoints — but its progressive-disclosure design is not actually delivered: the manifest and static/nature-shared fragments it routes to are absent from the bundle, and most real reference files are orphaned. The skill as shipped cannot execute its own routing protocol.
Suggestions
Ship manifest.yaml (and the static/ and ../nature-shared/ fragments it maps to) or rewrite the body so it only routes to files that actually exist in the bundle.
Name and link the six present references/ files (writing-strategy.md, section-moves.md, style-guardrails.md, phrasebank-playbook.md, published-article-patterns.md, nat-comms-2025-diction.md) explicitly instead of referring to them only generically as 'files under references/'.
Add a fallback for when manifest.yaml or a mapped fragment is missing, so the routing protocol degrades gracefully instead of failing at step 1.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The router is efficient and assumes Claude's competence — e.g. 'Do not try to apply the polishing logic from memory... Always load fragments from disk' — but a few illustrative passages like the drift examples ('one experimental factor under several names, the same quantity in two units...') and the NMI-provenance note could be trimmed, so it sits just below the lean 5 anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | The 5-step protocol is concretely worded with named files and a clear priority order, but the executable targets are mostly missing — 'Read [manifest.yaml](manifest.yaml)', 'every file listed under always_load', and 'the file mapped in the manifest' all reference artifacts absent from the bundle, leaving the guidance concrete in form but incomplete in practice. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear numbered sequence (load manifest/core → detect axes → load fragments → polish in priority order → reach for references) with explicit checkpoints — 'State the detected axis values in one short line to the user', 'Always compile and visually inspect rendered pages before and after', and the 'repeat the sweep until a pass finds nothing new' feedback loop — though the workflow's foundation rests on the absent manifest, a minor gap. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Scored against the actual bundle: the navigation hub 'manifest.yaml' the router depends on is missing, as are 'static/', 'core/failure-modes.md', and all six '../nature-shared/...' paths; only 'references/latex-layout.md' is both real and linked, while six other references/ files exist but are never named in the body — a minimal/broken structure with buried or dangling references. | 2 / 5 |
Total | 13 / 20 Passed |